Free Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer Core Exam NCSE-Core Exam Practice Test

During a sales motion with a new prospect, the prospect and SE agree to evaluate Nutanix and a computing platform using XRay.The prospect is currently using 3-tier architecture and considering Nutanix and HPE Simplivity.Which two details must be discussed with the prospect before the POC starts? (Choose two)

• Model of Fibre Channel switch
• Gather details of customer's existing 3-tier hardware
• ldentify appropriate POC hardware
• A test plan with agreed upon success criteria
• What type of external storage will be connected

Which functionality allows workloads to continue to run on the host when as AOS upgrade occurs?

• Acropolis Dynamic Scheduler
• High Availability
• CVM Autopathing
• Autonomous Extent Store

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 expandScheduling 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.)

• 1 -Node and 2-Node Clusters
• Xi DRaaS
• Foundation
• AHV

Which CVM service is responsible for providing storage to the hypervisor?

• Genesis
• Stargate
• Curator
• Zookeeper

A prospect's existing SAN-based environment regularly experiences unpredictable storage performance and latency spikes during peak utilization. The most highly affected workload is general server virtualization.Which Nutanix feature addresses this pain point?

• AHV-Turbo Mode
• Data Locality
• Shadow Clones
• Persistent Op-log

Which configuration can be used the data encryption on a nutanix cluster regardless of the hardware configuration?

• Self-Encryption Drives
• Software Encryption
• In-line Compression
• SSL Certificate

A prospect needs to refresh their environment but has a very small budget for the project. Four years after their last infrastructure refresh, the prospect's core datacenter is only running at 40% utilization. In addition, they have 25 satelite offices.Each office has a requirement to run 4 to 6 VMs locally.Which two Nutanix platform capabilities should the SE hlight to address the prospects concerns? (Choose two)

• Multi-site management
• Pay as you grow
• Automated data storage tiering
• Software only
• Single node backup

Which three settings are required for network switch discovery in Prism? (Choose Three)

• Switch Management IP Address
• AHV Host IP address
• Cluster CVM IP address
• SMTP Server IP address
• SNMP Community Name

A customer plans to migrate a business critical, high transaction application to nutanix. Currently the application is running on a physical server with 256GB of RAM and 12 CPU cores at > 80% utilization. To run the VM on a single NUMA node, which processor configuration should the systems engineer recommend for this workload?

• CPUs (16 Cores each @ 2.8GHz), 32 Cores total
• CPUs (8 Cores each @ 1.8Ghz), 16 Cores total
• CPUs (10 Cores each @ 3.4Ghz), 20 Cores total
• CPUs (8 Cores each @ 2.1Ghz), 16 Cores total

In the event of a primary datacenter failure. a customer wants to power on virtual machines in a secondary datacenter with an RPO and RTO of no more than 15 minutes. Upon further discussions with the customer. the systems engineer (SE) finds that round trip latency between the 2 sites ca reach up to 6ms Which Nutanix feature should the SE recommend?

• Metro Availability
• Rack Awareness
• NearSync
• Fault Tolerance FT1