NUTANIX NCSE LEVEL 1 EXAM WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
An SE needs to size a new project that requires offsite backup but not remote disaster
recovery. The prospect requires an RTO of 48 hours, RPO of 4 hours, and the ability to
restore from the past 5days of backups. The prospect's data change rate is 1%.
How should the SE configure Sizer for this scenario?
1. Option A
2. Option B
3. Option C
4. Option D - Answer- Option D
When entering a Raw Input workload into Sizer, what amount of RAM should be used
for the entire workload?
1. 32GB
2. 42GB
3. 48GB
4. 64GB - Answer- 32GB
When sizing for Splunk, the customer states the daily ingest rate is 500GB and they are
currently using Search Factor 2 and
Splunk Replication Factor 2.
Which two additional input are required by Sizer? (Choose two)
1. Data Retention
2. Network Bandwidth
3. Number of Events
4. Number of Datastores
5. Concurrent Search Users - Answer- Data Retention
&
Concurrent Search Users
Which option should be recommended for a customer to get timely notifications of
significant product issues is the field?
1. Visit the nutanix.com website
2. Open Prism Element > Gear icon Menu > Field Advisories
3. Visit the Portal.nutanix.com website > Documentation Tab > Security Advisories
4. Register for Field Advisory email notifications - Answer- Register for Field Advisory
email notifications
Which two Citrix desktop creation capabilities are supported on Nutanix AHV? (Choose
two)
,1. Provisioning Service
2. System Center Virtual Machine Manager
3. Composer
4. Machine Creation Services
5. Desktop Delivery Controller - Answer- Provisioning Service
&
Machine Creation Services
Which two items represent measurable POC success criteria? (Choose two.)
1. Tested VDI Broker
2. Deployed 100 desktops on AHV using Citrix MCS plugin
3. Restored VMs from Protection Domain
4. Compare Nutanix to existing infrastructure
5. Demonstrated Prism - Answer- Deployed 100 Desktops on AHV using Citrix MCS
plugin
&
Restored VMs from Protection Domain
Which website acts as a single gateway for all Nutanix deal registrations, forums,
software downloads, product documentation
product alerts and support interactions?
1. my.nutanix.com
2. nutanixbible.com
3. support.nutanix.com
4. portal.nutanix.com - Answer- my.nutanix.com
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?
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
An SE needs to size a new project that requires offsite backup but not remote disaster
recovery. The prospect requires an RTO of 48 hours, RPO of 4 hours, and the ability to
restore from the past 5days of backups. The prospect's data change rate is 1%.
How should the SE configure Sizer for this scenario?
1. Option A
2. Option B
3. Option C
4. Option D - Answer- Option D
When entering a Raw Input workload into Sizer, what amount of RAM should be used
for the entire workload?
1. 32GB
2. 42GB
3. 48GB
4. 64GB - Answer- 32GB
When sizing for Splunk, the customer states the daily ingest rate is 500GB and they are
currently using Search Factor 2 and
Splunk Replication Factor 2.
Which two additional input are required by Sizer? (Choose two)
1. Data Retention
2. Network Bandwidth
3. Number of Events
4. Number of Datastores
5. Concurrent Search Users - Answer- Data Retention
&
Concurrent Search Users
Which option should be recommended for a customer to get timely notifications of
significant product issues is the field?
1. Visit the nutanix.com website
2. Open Prism Element > Gear icon Menu > Field Advisories
3. Visit the Portal.nutanix.com website > Documentation Tab > Security Advisories
4. Register for Field Advisory email notifications - Answer- Register for Field Advisory
email notifications
Which two Citrix desktop creation capabilities are supported on Nutanix AHV? (Choose
two)
,1. Provisioning Service
2. System Center Virtual Machine Manager
3. Composer
4. Machine Creation Services
5. Desktop Delivery Controller - Answer- Provisioning Service
&
Machine Creation Services
Which two items represent measurable POC success criteria? (Choose two.)
1. Tested VDI Broker
2. Deployed 100 desktops on AHV using Citrix MCS plugin
3. Restored VMs from Protection Domain
4. Compare Nutanix to existing infrastructure
5. Demonstrated Prism - Answer- Deployed 100 Desktops on AHV using Citrix MCS
plugin
&
Restored VMs from Protection Domain
Which website acts as a single gateway for all Nutanix deal registrations, forums,
software downloads, product documentation
product alerts and support interactions?
1. my.nutanix.com
2. nutanixbible.com
3. support.nutanix.com
4. portal.nutanix.com - Answer- my.nutanix.com
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?
