Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer-Core (NCSE-Core) Questions and Answers
Prospective customer explains their current infrastructure and upcoming goals. They are a fast-growing software company with approximately 3000 employees. Engineering accounts for approximately half of total staff and is behind on product releases.
This department has been building their own infrastructure using available hardware, SaaS offerings, and public cloud.
There's a new CIO attempting to gain control of existing and incoming
information systems while supporting the agile environment responsible for their rapid innovation with a minimal staff. From this information, which two addressable pain points or gaps should be discerned?(Choose two)
A customer has deployed Nutanix with Esxi for VDI workloads and is considering Nutanix for a major server virtualization project. The customer is running z/Virtual Machine today for a mission critical workload and would like to consider Nutanix as a potential platform.
Which reason would currently disqualify this prospect as an opportunity?
A prospect customer's expected workload consists of the following: 110 vCPU 512GB RAM * 500TB Storage They need a solution to help decrease storage costs. The majority of their storage requirements come from an imaging application that stores scanned JPEG images. Which two Nutanix capabilities should be leveraged? (Choose two.)
A prospect is conducting a Nutanix POC process that will measure the time to revocer from a power loss, the impact of running multiple workloads on the same cluster, and peak storage performance. The POC results will be presented to the CIO.
How can this be achieved with the least room for error?
What are two things that the ADS service does for VMs within AHV? (Choose two.)
A customer who uses Nutanix for mission critical workloads is considering migrating public cloud workloads to Nutanix. The customer has experienced difficulty auditing where applications reside and understanding cloud costs on a per application basis.
Which Nutanix product should be discussed to address the customer'sneeds?
A prospective customer is concerned about having a single-pane-of-glass manage their infrastructure because it also provides a single-point-of-failure. How does the Nutanix Prism architecture address this concern?
A systems engineer is sizing a configuration for a cluster that needs to tolerate up to 2 simultaneous disk failures across different nodes. What is the minimum number of nodes required?
Which configuration can be used the data encryption on a nutanix cluster regardless of the hardware configuration?
A customer needs a tool packaged as a VM that uses realistic workloads paired with real-world test scenarios for HCI environments. The goal is to benchmark performance during typica! workflows and failure events. Which Nutanix tool meets these requirements?
What are two key Nutanix value propositions? (Choose two)
AN SE determines that a POC is necessary to overcome competitive FUD in an opportunity with an Enterprise account evaluating several HCI solutions. The customer will evaluate three
solutions in their datacenter simultaneously over the course of 4 days.
The customer schedules all necessary personnel to be available during this time.
Which two network planning items should the SE determine prior to allocation hardware for the POC? (Choose two)
In a competitive POC scenario, the prospect is testing Nutanix against VxRail and Hyperflex. The customer is interested in an ""All in One"" solution that's simple to deploy, manage, and grow.
Which two test plan items should the SE map to POC success criteria?
(Choose two)
A systems engineer sizers an environment based on the customer's requirement of N+2 resiliency for the entire cluster. In which two ways could the configuration be changed to meet the customer's requirements ? (Choose Two)
A prospect is replacing a 3-tier virtualization infrastructure made up of several ESXi hosts and a SAN. The prospect recently bought a new 4-socket server to host their SQL server workload which uses the same SAN.
Which feature allows the prospect to continue using their new server
without buying another SAN?
During a sales motion with a new prospect, the prospect asks to do a POC so they can experience Nutanix in their environment.
What is the most important item the SE must have in place with the prospect before moving forward with a POC?
Which three configuration scenarios are valid for the deployment of Prism Central? (Choose three.)
A customer previously purchased a Nutanix solution of nine NX-3060-G7 nodes. The customer asks for help to increase the resiliency of their environment after power outages to individual racks in their datacenter Their current solution consists of two NX-3460-G7 blocks and a single NX-3160-G7 block placed in a single rack. what should the systems engineer recommend to this customer ?
Which type of data is distributed by Zookeeper to ensure availability in the case of node or block failure?
A prospect is evaluating vSphere alternatives and has received FUD regarding AHV. The SE gives a demo and provides relevant case studies, but the prospect still requests a POC.
What additional option should the SE recommend to avoid a POC?
Which website acts as a single gateway for all Nutanix deal registrations, forums, software downloads, product documentation product alerts and support interactions?
A prospect is experiencing disk performance issues in their database environment. The prospect's databases currently run on physical servers and an iSCSI SAN with spinning disks. Which two Nutanix features should an SE discuss with this prospect to address their disk performance issues? (Choose two)
A prospect is planning to refresh hundreds of remote locations. Each location has the following configuration:
• 2x HPE DL360 servers running vSphere, each using its own local storage
• 3-4 Windows VMs with no plans to expand
Scheduling the initial meeting to discuss the opportunity has been challenging as the prospect believes a Nutanix solution would be overpriced for their remote site needs.
What are two Nutanix capabilities the SE should highlight to address solution cost concerns? (Choose two.)
main problem relates to the existing architecture and a mix of vendors who are slow to release update to their products. Which core facet of WebScale architecture should the Nutanix systems engineer discuss?
An SE is conducting a first call presentation with their Account Executive and a prospect. The prospect needs to build a private cloud but has been unable to implement the solution in-house, since using their traditional architecture would require integrating server, storage and networking solutions from six different vendors.
The cost and complexity of that approach is too high. Also their current infrastructure is not built for scalability or performance.
The prospect has considered upgrading their traditional server and SAN storage platforms but could not meet requirements for scale and performance using this approach.
In what order should the SE present the critical product and technology portions of the First Customer Presentation to the IT Director?
30. A healthcare prospect looking to refresh their infrastructure with Nutanix has an initiative to migrate 5 Petabytes of unstructured, archived patient data. Which Nutanix product should be the focus of the discussion?
An SE builds a sizer scenario for a prospect's remote site running on an NX-1365S-G5.
Using only the sizer BOM. which two actions can be performed? (Choose two.)
A customer is conceded that IT will not be able to take advantage of Nutanix's frequent feature releases due to the man hour requirements of maintaining compliance with industry regulatory controls.
Which item should the SE discuss at the next customer visit with IT?
ABC Corp currently has 50 VMs currently running in production and is interested in sizing a DR cluster. The RTO is 4 hours and the RPO is 2 hours .
Each VM has 100GB of data, with a 5% daily change rate .for retention the customer wants to keep 2 weeks of snaps on the DR cluster.
What is the minimum amount of storage capacity for the remote cluster to meet the customer's data retention
