NUTANIX NCSE LEVEL 1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS | VERIFIED
/. 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
1. 6TB to 7TB
2. 8TB to 9TB
3. 10TB to 11TB
4. 14TB to 15TB: - Answer-✅8TB to 9TB
/.A customer is asking for a quote for a hybrid cluster to run general purpose VMs and
an ERP application containing a 500GB
database. The customer has a VSAN ReadyNode quote already and looking for a
comparable Nutanix solution. They share the
following specifications
3 hosts
2 x E5-2640v4 CPU
512GB RAM
1 x 480GB SSD
2 x 8TB HDD
2 x 1GB NIC
Which two aspects of the requested configuration should cause concern and need for
further discovery? (Choose two.) - Answer-✅480GB SSD
&
1GBNIC
/.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?
1. Data at Rest Encryption (Software)
2. Two-factor Authentication
3. Security Configuration Management Automation (SCMA)
4. Factory-installed self-encryption drives (SED): - Answer-✅Security Configuration
Management Automation (SCMA)
,/.A customer is provisioning 1,000 linked clone desktops with View Composer for their
call center. During a short period between
shift changes,desktops must be rebooted.
Which Nutanix feature will help to mitigate the desktop boot times?
1. Shadow Clones
2. Performance Tier De-duplication
3. Content Based Read Cache
4. View Acceleration Array Intergration": - Answer-✅Shadow Clones
/.A customer plans to migrate a business critical,highly tranactional SQL Server
database to Nutanix Currently the databases is
running on a physical server with 256GB of RAM and 12CPU cores at > 80% utilization
To run the VM on a single NUMA node, which processor configuration should the SE
recommend for this workload?
1. Intel E5 2680v4 (14 cores each @ 2.4GHZ, 28 Cores total)
2. Intel E5 2620v4 ( 8 cores each @ 2.1GHZ, 16 Cores total)
3. Intel E5 2643v4 ( 6 cores each @ 3.4GHZ, 12 Cores total)
4. Intel E5 2667v4 ( 8 cores each @ 3.2GHZ, 16 Cores total) - Answer-✅Intel E5
2667v4 ( 8 cores each @ 3.2GHZ, 16 Cores total)
/.After a meeting with a new prospect to demo Nutanix for a Splunk opportunity, the
prospect requests a POC.
To qualify the need for a POC, which question should an SE ask the prospect first?
1. Are you considering other solutions?
2. What do you plan to evaluate?
3. Is this project budgeted?
4. Which version of Splunk are you running? - Answer-✅What do you plan to evaluate?
/.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.)
1. Review budgetary pricing
2. Review workload sizing details
3. Review power consumption requirements
4. Review applicable discounts from deal registration
5. Reference the HCL for additional SKUs relevant to the configuration - Answer-
✅Review workload sizing details
&
Reference the HCL for additional SKUs relevant to the configuration
/.An SE is building a solution for a federal goverment prospect that u???
Which two items are required to deliver a solution that meens the ??? encryption
(choose two)
1. Nutanix Acropolis Pro Licensing
2. Self-Encrypting Drives
, 3. A supported Key Management Server
4. Nutanix Software Encryption - Answer-✅Self-Encrypting Drives
&
Nutanix Software Encryption"
/.An SE is working with a financial institution prospect on a VDI environment refresh.
The institution currently has 5000 named VDI
users, with a peak of 2800 concurrent users.
How many VDI VMs does the SE need to size for, factoring in an additional 10% for
growth?
1. 2880
2. 3080
3. 5000
4. 5500 - Answer-✅3080
/.A Nutanix customer needs to migrate 1000VMs from ACME Public Cloud to a local
Nutanix cluster ACME Public Cloud operates
on VMware ESXi, Hp ProLiant Servers with 3PAR storage. ACME Public Cloud denies
customers access to vCenter or ESXi hosts
But they do replicate a copy of the virtual disks to external storage.
Which method should the customer use to migrate the VMs to a local Nutanix Cluster?
1. Use Xtract for VMs to migrate VMs from ACME Public Cloud vCenter to local Nutanix
cluster.
2. Deploy Nutanix Community Edition in ACME Public Cloud and replicate VMs to local
Nutanix cluster.
3. Use Calm to automate and orchestrate deployment on the local Nutanix cluster.
4. Use the latest copy of VMs on external storage to import on the local Nutanix cluster -
Answer-✅Use the latest copy of VMs on
external storage to import on the local Nutanix cluster
/.A prospect discloses they have had multiple instances of unplanned downtime in the
last 3 months due to server hardware failures. The team has been through multiple
reorganizations in support of a struggling cloud migration project. As a result,
cummunication whithin the team has suffered and some notifications from their SNMP
based monitoring solution have been ignored.
Which Nutanix feature should the SE highlight?
1. Pulse
2. Insights
3. Prism
4. Watchtower - Answer-✅Pulse
/.A prospect facing an upcoming Vmware ELA renewal has a management directive to
move to the public cloud due to perceived
cost savings. Their virtualization team is currently struggling with refactoring
applications for AWS. As a result, the virtualization
ANSWERS | VERIFIED
/. 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
1. 6TB to 7TB
2. 8TB to 9TB
3. 10TB to 11TB
4. 14TB to 15TB: - Answer-✅8TB to 9TB
/.A customer is asking for a quote for a hybrid cluster to run general purpose VMs and
an ERP application containing a 500GB
database. The customer has a VSAN ReadyNode quote already and looking for a
comparable Nutanix solution. They share the
following specifications
3 hosts
2 x E5-2640v4 CPU
512GB RAM
1 x 480GB SSD
2 x 8TB HDD
2 x 1GB NIC
Which two aspects of the requested configuration should cause concern and need for
further discovery? (Choose two.) - Answer-✅480GB SSD
&
1GBNIC
/.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?
1. Data at Rest Encryption (Software)
2. Two-factor Authentication
3. Security Configuration Management Automation (SCMA)
4. Factory-installed self-encryption drives (SED): - Answer-✅Security Configuration
Management Automation (SCMA)
,/.A customer is provisioning 1,000 linked clone desktops with View Composer for their
call center. During a short period between
shift changes,desktops must be rebooted.
Which Nutanix feature will help to mitigate the desktop boot times?
1. Shadow Clones
2. Performance Tier De-duplication
3. Content Based Read Cache
4. View Acceleration Array Intergration": - Answer-✅Shadow Clones
/.A customer plans to migrate a business critical,highly tranactional SQL Server
database to Nutanix Currently the databases is
running on a physical server with 256GB of RAM and 12CPU cores at > 80% utilization
To run the VM on a single NUMA node, which processor configuration should the SE
recommend for this workload?
1. Intel E5 2680v4 (14 cores each @ 2.4GHZ, 28 Cores total)
2. Intel E5 2620v4 ( 8 cores each @ 2.1GHZ, 16 Cores total)
3. Intel E5 2643v4 ( 6 cores each @ 3.4GHZ, 12 Cores total)
4. Intel E5 2667v4 ( 8 cores each @ 3.2GHZ, 16 Cores total) - Answer-✅Intel E5
2667v4 ( 8 cores each @ 3.2GHZ, 16 Cores total)
/.After a meeting with a new prospect to demo Nutanix for a Splunk opportunity, the
prospect requests a POC.
To qualify the need for a POC, which question should an SE ask the prospect first?
1. Are you considering other solutions?
2. What do you plan to evaluate?
3. Is this project budgeted?
4. Which version of Splunk are you running? - Answer-✅What do you plan to evaluate?
/.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.)
1. Review budgetary pricing
2. Review workload sizing details
3. Review power consumption requirements
4. Review applicable discounts from deal registration
5. Reference the HCL for additional SKUs relevant to the configuration - Answer-
✅Review workload sizing details
&
Reference the HCL for additional SKUs relevant to the configuration
/.An SE is building a solution for a federal goverment prospect that u???
Which two items are required to deliver a solution that meens the ??? encryption
(choose two)
1. Nutanix Acropolis Pro Licensing
2. Self-Encrypting Drives
, 3. A supported Key Management Server
4. Nutanix Software Encryption - Answer-✅Self-Encrypting Drives
&
Nutanix Software Encryption"
/.An SE is working with a financial institution prospect on a VDI environment refresh.
The institution currently has 5000 named VDI
users, with a peak of 2800 concurrent users.
How many VDI VMs does the SE need to size for, factoring in an additional 10% for
growth?
1. 2880
2. 3080
3. 5000
4. 5500 - Answer-✅3080
/.A Nutanix customer needs to migrate 1000VMs from ACME Public Cloud to a local
Nutanix cluster ACME Public Cloud operates
on VMware ESXi, Hp ProLiant Servers with 3PAR storage. ACME Public Cloud denies
customers access to vCenter or ESXi hosts
But they do replicate a copy of the virtual disks to external storage.
Which method should the customer use to migrate the VMs to a local Nutanix Cluster?
1. Use Xtract for VMs to migrate VMs from ACME Public Cloud vCenter to local Nutanix
cluster.
2. Deploy Nutanix Community Edition in ACME Public Cloud and replicate VMs to local
Nutanix cluster.
3. Use Calm to automate and orchestrate deployment on the local Nutanix cluster.
4. Use the latest copy of VMs on external storage to import on the local Nutanix cluster -
Answer-✅Use the latest copy of VMs on
external storage to import on the local Nutanix cluster
/.A prospect discloses they have had multiple instances of unplanned downtime in the
last 3 months due to server hardware failures. The team has been through multiple
reorganizations in support of a struggling cloud migration project. As a result,
cummunication whithin the team has suffered and some notifications from their SNMP
based monitoring solution have been ignored.
Which Nutanix feature should the SE highlight?
1. Pulse
2. Insights
3. Prism
4. Watchtower - Answer-✅Pulse
/.A prospect facing an upcoming Vmware ELA renewal has a management directive to
move to the public cloud due to perceived
cost savings. Their virtualization team is currently struggling with refactoring
applications for AWS. As a result, the virtualization
