NCSE-Core Questions and Answers

During an initial discussion. a prospective customer indicates they are strongly considering vSAN for their HCI initiative. The prospect's workloads are mostly read-intensive and they have over 1PB of archival data. The prospect expects to save on costs using storage efficiencies that their existing platform does not support. Which two Nutanix differentiators should the systems engineer discuss? (Choose two.)

What is the main function of Oplog?

Based on their current workload. a customer request the systems engineer to create a solution that does not exceed 80% CPU utilization when a node is placed in maintenance mode (N+0) When creating the Sizer Scenario in Automatic Mode, how can the systems engineer accomplish this?

A systems engineer is creating a workload for a Sizer Scenario that requires Disaster Recovery (DR) resources with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 6 hours. The "Protect VMs and other Entities" setting is set to Yes. Async is selected for the RPO. Which two other options must be enabled to have Sizer create a DR cluster? (Choose two)

What is an important consideration when using RVTools output for sizing a solution?

How long must data be 'write-cold' before Erasure Coding can begin optimization?

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)

Which Prism Dashboard should be used to collect CPU/Memory and Disk I/O statistics over time?

An 8-node hybrid cluster is configured with a Fault Tolerance level of 2 (RF3). All nodes are identical. Which simultaneous failures will result in VM data being unavailable?

A prospective customer wants to build a private cloud in addition to provisioning workloads across multiple public cloud providers.

Presently, the staff lacks the time and skillset for on-premises infrastructure management.

Which two features should qualify this project as a Nutanix opportunity?

(choose two)

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 team is pushing to evaluate VXRail and renew their VMware ELA.

Which two aspects of Nutanix shoud the SE Highlight? (Choose two)

A prospect wants to target Nutanix as infrastructure for running VMs built as part of their new Continuous Integration and Delivery (CICD) pipeline. Hundreds of builds will occur per day across their development organization.

Which two items should the SE identify to begin sizing the Nutanix deployment? (Choose two.)

For security reason an administrator needs to logically separate management and data traffic on Nutanix cluster.

Which feature should the administrator select for this configuration?

An administrator needs to report on any alerts generated by a Nutanix cluster that affected the cluster's availability over the past 10 days.

Which method should be used to locate these events?

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?

prospect uses Vmware, Oracle, and Microsoft products for a critical application. The prospect prefers an all flash array because they have significantly invested in servers for their Oracle environment to save on licensing costs.

which feature should be discussed to address this objection?

A customer performs a 1-click, non-disruptive upgrade on a 3-node Nutanix cluster. While the CVM on Node A is rebooting, a VM on Node A overwrites an existing block of data. How does Nutanix AOS ensure data integrity during the upgrade?

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)

During an initial meeting with a prospect the storage administrator learns that Nutanix does not use RAID for application data. The prospect's storage array is configured with RAID 10 and the full capacity of the array is required. As a result no hot spares have been allocated. The storage administrator must respond immediately to any disk failures, even outside standard business hours.

Which aspect of Nutanix replication factor (RF) will reduce the storage administrator's break/fix burden?

A customer wants to evaluate the performance impact of failing a node while running workloads on the cluster. Which tool should a systems engineer use to accomplish this task?

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)

Compared to a 3-tier architecture, Which two benefits does Nutanix bring to an organization? (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?