NCSE Core v2
NCSE Core v2
NCSE Core v2
The
prospect prefers an all flash array over HCI, because they have made a recent significant
investment in physical server for their Oracle environment to save on licensing cost.
Which feature should be discussed to address this objection?
VM Flash Mode
Hyper-V support
AHV
Volumes
2. When creating a multi-cluster scenario in Sizer, what does the Summary Failover Capacity
indicator (N+0,
N+1) display?
The indicator shows the worst resiliency level of any cluster in the scenario
N+0, if the RAM utilization for all cluster in the scenario.
The indicator shows the best resiliency level of any cluster in the scenario
N+0, if the CPU utilization for all clusters falls below N+1 resiliency
3. When creating a workload for a Sizer scenario, which workload type allows for modification of
CMV
SQL Server
Server Virtualizarion
Objects
Raw Input
4. A customer has a new execute team that is putting pressure in IT to increase security. A
competitor--
storage traffic from management traffic is more secure
How can Nutanix address this concern?
5. A 20-node cluster is deployed across two racks. An SSD fails. Before all data can be re-built ,ar--
power to a separate 4-node block in the cluster. No data becomes unavailable, and all VMs come
back
Which two Nutanix configuration features were used in this cluster (Choose two)
Block Awareness
Replication Factor 3
Rack Awareness
Replication factor 2
7. which CVM service ensures cluster metadata is stored in a highly available manner?
Cassandra
Curator
Zookeeper
Stargate
8. A customer has a requirement to run a single instance Oracle Database VM on AHV that is
driving over 250,000 IOPs. Which AOS feature should be positioned to deliver the highest level of
performance?
9. A systems engineer needs to conduct a demo for a prospective customer and must determine in
demo.nutanix.com
requirements.
10. What advantage does the Nutanix Controller Virtual Machine provide
?
Rapid Time-to-Value
Lower TCO
One-Click Operational Insights
Distributed services
11. A prospective customer is evaluating both traditional SAN solutions as well as a 10-node RF2
Nutanix
refresh. Their storage administrator expresses concern that Nutanix lacks a battery-backed cache
to
a sudden power failure
What information should the systems engineer share with the prospect?
Before the guest OS receives write acknowledgement, each data block is written to an SSD
on both the local node and a remote node
Before the guest OS receives write acknowledgement, each data block is written to 2 SSDs
on the local node
Before the guest OS receives write acknowledgement, each data block is written to an SSD
on both the local node and a HDD on a remote node
Before the guest OS receives write acknowledgement, each data block is written to memory
on the local node and an SSD on a remote node
12. An existing Nutanix customer is planning to add multiple clusters. The customer intends to
migrate from
downtime.
Which two Nutanix features could be used to meet these requirements? (Choose two)
13. Which functionality allows workloads to continue to run on the host when an AOS upgrade
occurs?
High Availability
Acropolis Dynamic Scheduler
CVM Autopathing
Autonomous Extent Store
14. Which CVM service is responsible for providing storage to the hypervisor?
Curator
Genesis
Zookeeper
Stargate
Free MB
In Use MB
Provisioned MB
Capacity MB
16. What are two key Nutanix value propositions? (Choose two)
17. What is the minimum Acropolis Software Edition required to attach external servers to Nutanix
Volumes
Ultimate
Starter
Starter with the Nutanix Advanced Storate SKU
Pro
18 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?
Mine
Files
Volumes
Objects
19. A customer needs to image nodes that are either bare metal or require a different hypervisor.
Which Nutanix tool should be used?
Move
Pris Central
Era
Foundation
20. 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?
21. What is the expected impact to running VMs on a node with an unavailable CVM?
22. A customer is evaluating Nutanix to replace their existing 200TB filer. The filer is used to store
archived images. To achieve maximum storage density. RF2 and Erasure Coding are proposed.
What is the minimum number of nodes required to support the maximum Erasure Coding stripe size
of 4/1 (data/parity)?
4 Nodes
5 Nodes
6 Nodes
7 Nodes
23. For sizer scenarios with more that one cluster, what information does the default view display in
the s--
24. A System engineer (SE) is gathering requirements to size a hybrid cluster to replace a
prospect's existing IT test and development environment. The prospective customer has indicated
the cluster contains no business critical applications and has provided the aggregate vCPU and
RAM requirements
of the existing cluster.
Which two additional items does the SE require to size the cluster? (Choose two)
A. Existing Drive Count
B. Virtual Switch Configuration
C. Working Data Set
D. Storage Capacity
25. A customer wants to decrease costs and increase efficiency by eliminating NAS silos and
adopting a cloud-like mindset.
Which Nutanix product meets these requirements?
Nutanix Files
Nutanix Calm
Nutanix Beam
Nutanix Xi Frame
26. A customer asks for a quote for a hybrid cluster to run general purpose VMs and an ERP
application. The customer has a vSAN ReadyNode quote already and is looking for a
comparable Nutanix solution. They share the following bill of materials:
3 Hosts
2x E5-2640v4 CPUs
512GB RAM
1 x 480GB SSD
2 x 8TB HDD
2 x 1GB NIC
What are two reasons to avoid sizing to match a competitor's bill of materials? (Choose two)
28. A prospective customer has a requirement for Data-at-Rest-Encryptionfor all their data.
Which two license options are available to address this requirement? (Choose two)
Ultimate
Pro with the Encryption SKU
Pro
Starter with the Encryption SKU
29. A prospect is interested in evaluating Nutanix at no cost for a few months but wants to use
existing test hardware to deploy a few VMs. Their primary interest is in experiencing platform
management and not application or benchmark performance.
Which approach should an SE recommend?
A. Nutanix NX POC
B. Nutanix community Edition
C. Nutanix Go
D. Nutanix Test Drive
30 An SE is meeting with a prospect that is refreshing infrastructure in 100 retail locations. Currently
the stores use vSphere hosts connected to direct attached storage and are managed by 6 separate
vCenter servers. On- site retail staff is unqualified to deal with any hardware break/fix issues.
Which two aspects of Nutanix solution should the SE highlight? (Choose two)
Protection Domains
Self-healing Infrastructure
Data Locality
Prism Central
31. 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 ?
-Buy three additional NX-3060 upgrade nodes and place them into the NX-3160 block.
Enable Rack Awareness.
-Move one node from each NX-3460 blocks over to the NX-3160 blocks.
Enable Block Awarenees.
-Buy one additional node and place it into the NX-3160 block. Spread the blocks voer three
racks. Enable Rack Awareness
-Move one node from each NX-3460 into the NX-3160 block. Spread the over three
racks and enable Rack Awareness
33. A systems engineer providers a demo to a prospective customer who wants to be more
hands on with Nutanix.
Which two resources can the customer leverage without support from a systems engineer or
Nutanix (Choose two)
Which exhibit shows the optimal configuration to meet the customer's requirements?
NX-8055-G7
NX-8055-G7
NX-8055-G7
NX-8055-G7
Nutanix Collector
Customizable Reporting
Capacity Planning
Nutanix Cluster Check
A persistent write buffer to coalesce all writes before destaging to the extent store
A persistent write buffer to coalesce bursts of random writes before destaging to the extend
store
A memory cache to coalesce bursts of random writes before destaging to the extent store
A memory cache to coalesce all writes before destaging to the extent store
37. A systems engineer (SE) is in a competitive deal with alternate HCI solutions. The customer
provides c--
requests a solution based on the provided information.
Why is a competitive BOM an inappropriate approach for proposing an acuuarately sized Nutanix
solution?
38. A prospective customer recently encountered data loss with their existing legacy storage
solution. A s--
RAID5 colume was rebuilding. The prospective customer is concerned that rebuild times in the
event --
expose them to similar data loss.
39. A prospective customer asks about failure handing. They have heard all HCI is the same and
want to know what happens if 2 nodes fail within 1 hour of each other. if there is capacity in the
cluster, how will this failure scenario be handled?
-Nutanix waits 60 minutes to recover from failures; data loss may occur
-Every block of data is written to every node in a Nutanix cluster
-Nutanix begins rebuilds immediately on a failure.
-The Nutanix RAID array will leverage the hot spare.
40. A customer's current AHV cluster for mixed server workloads consists of 7 NX-3060-G6 nodes
with intel Skylake processors spread across two blocks. Growing demand for resources requires the
customer to order three additional NX-3060-G7 nodes with Intel Cascade Lake processors.
Which supported approach allows the customer the most efficient use of their additional resources?
A. Create a new cluster using a new block populated by the three additional nodes.
B. Expand the cluster by fully populating the existing blocks, and adding a new block populated with
two
nodes
C. Expand the cluster by fully populating the existing blocks with the three additional nodes
D. Expand the existing cluster by adding a new block populated with the three additional nodes
41. An existing customer notifies their systems engineer (SE) about a new ROBO project for 32
branch offices
minimizing administration. The customer is considering using 2-node Nutanix clusters, but
expresses --
offsite witness
The witness runs as a CVM service, which eliminates the need for installing a separate
product.
A single witness VM can serve all 32 remote locations.
A single witness VM can server up to 8 remote locations.
Each site requires its own witness VM, which is maintained through simple one-click
upgrades.
42. Which AOS feature provides enhanced read performance specifically for virtual desktop
environments?
43. Which tool could be used to perform a sizing discovery in a general server virtualization
environment running both VMware ESXi and Nutanix AHV?
RVTools
Collector
MAP
AWR
42 GB
48 GB
52 GB
64 GB
45. A customer is evaluating DR solutions for their Nutanix deployment and is converned about the
comp-
managing multiple datacenters.
Metro Availability
Mine
Xi Leap
Protection Domains
46.
A prospective customer provide the data shown captured from their existing environment using
RVTools.The prospect has additional
historical CPU utilization data that indicates peak CPU utilization never exceeds 50% on either
physical host but their current vCPU:pCore ratio.
Based on the data provided, which vCPU:pCore ratio Should be used for the Raw input workload in
Sizer
2:1
3:1
4:1
5:1
47. A systems engineer (SE) is architecting a cluster for a prospective customer who is converting
from their3-tier
has approximately 800 VMs of all sizes. The SE has an approximate understanding of how much
capacity is being
also provides complete RVTools.
The systems engineer imports the RVTools. The sizer produces a configuration with far fewer cores
and must -
engineer expected based on the original environment.
48. A customer needs to increase availability in their Nutanix environment by enabling rack
awareness. The current.
Which two changes should the systems engineer propose to meet the customer requirements?
(Choose two)
49. 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?
50. A customer needs to leverage VM snapshots to meet their Recovery Point Objetives. Based on
prior experience
they are concerned that performance will be negatively impacted if they generate too many
snapshots.
Copy-on-First Access
Copy-on-Write
Redirect-on-Read
Redirect-on-Write
51. When using Nutanix Sizer, which solution does the Automatic sizing option provide?
52. A customer has a 3-node cluster configured for RF2 with 100TB of raw disk space. The
customer wants to enable Erasure Coding to gain
additional usable space.
No change
are required
Add an additional 30TB to the existing cluster
Add 1 node to the cluster
Increase the size of the default storage pool
53. How long must data be 'write-cold' before Erasure Coding can begin optimization?
1 hour
6 hours
1 day
7 days
54. Over what period of time does the Nutanix Collector provide performance data?
Previous 7 days
User definable at collection
Point in time at collection
Previous 24 hours
55. A customer's existing SAN experiences several drive failures during its lifespan. The customer
repeate --
issues during the rebuild time. The customer is evaluating a 5-node cluster to replace the SAN.
Id a drive fails in the new cluster, how many CVMs will work on the rebuild?
Two of the remaining CVMs; one where the disk failed and the CVM where that disk is mirrored
Three other CVMs will do the rebuild
All CVMs participate in data rebuilds
Only the CVM where the disk fails does the rebuild
56. A systems engineer is creating a configuration in Sizer for a customer that is building an app for
use as an ebooks repository. The app requires the following two workloads:
1. 50 generic web server VMs, each with 2 vCPUs on a 4:1 vCPU:CPU ratio, 8 GB of RAM and
100GB of storage each
2. A fileserver workload with 80TB of usable storage available, which contains mostly PDF's and
pre-compressed data
Any reduction in performance of the web servers must be avoided. After entering the workload with
default options, the Sizer outputs the configuration shown in the exhibit.
Which adjustment does the systems engineer need to make to the scenario to meet the
performance requirements?
57.
A customer needs to deploy 5000 virtual desktops on Nutanix. The requirements call for an
active/active deployment,
such that an entire site can be made unavailable due to maintenance or disaster without impacting
desktop availability.
13
26
52
104
58. A prospective customer wants to migrate database workloads to Nutanix. They are currently
running these workloads on a 3-tier vSphere architecture made up of 5 hosts connected to a hybrid
SAN over 10G iSCSI. The hosts each have 256G RAM and 2 Broadwell 2.8Ghz 12 core
processors. The largest database VM is configured with 64G of memory. Some databases are fairly
old and single threaded Current performance is deemed acceptable. Which configuration
component is most important to maintain the customer experience on a new Nutanix cluster and
minimize costs?
Which configuration component is most important to maintain the customer experience on a new
Nutanix cluster and minimize costs?
Make sure the cluster uses 512G per host to protect NUMA boundaries
Make sure the cluster uses similar speed processors regardless of generation
Make sure the cluster uses 25G nics to speed up the network
Make sure the cluster is all flash to speed up data access
59. 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?
Foundation
Move
X-Ray
Cluster Check
60. One of a prospective customer's security analysts asks about Nutanix's security functionality.
The security analyst asks if Nutanix has any feature or capability that reduces the effort required to
assess the security with in the Nutanix infrastructure. Which benefit does Nutanix SCMA provide to
this prospect?
61. A customer is trying to implement a new application on their existing 3-tier infrastructure. The
application --
latency for proper operation. Testing indicates that the current platform cannot accommodate this
requirement
system engineer (SE) for guidance and provides the following information:
The application VM is sized with 8 vCPUs, 32Gb RAM and 4x 500GB vDisks
Requirement from the application vendor is all NVMe storage with 100Gbps networking
When implementing Nutanix, what additional guidance should the Nutanix SE give the customer
62. when reviewing Nutanix cluster upgrades. a customer engineer is concerned that their VM will
be forced to repeatedly migrate between nodes. Which Nutanix feature allows VMs to remain on a
host during an AOS upgrade?
CVM Autopathing
RF3
Data Locality
Shadow Clones
63. A systems engineer needs to size a new project that requires offsite backup using Veeam. The
prospect requires an RPO of 24 hours, and
the ability to restore from the past 7 days of backups. the prospect's data change rate is 1%
How should the SE configure Sizer for this scenario?
Backup: Yes
Recovery Point Objective: 24
Number of Backup Cycles: 1
Full Backups per Cycle: 1
Incremental Backup per Cycle: 6
Retention in Days: 7
64. A prospective client that is currently virtualized using Dell servers is willing to provide a Live
Optics report to assist with sizing a partial
infrastructure refresh with Nutanix.
Which option provides an approach for sampling accurate sizing data with Live Optics?
65. A customer wants to evaluate the performance impact of failing a node while running workloads
on the cluster.
Move
X-Ray
demo.nutanix.com
Sizer
Which two VMs require further data analysis to accurately size resources
prodsrv02
prodsrv05
prodsrv06
prodsrv07
66. In addition to the total number of physical CPU cores, which hardware component is used to
calculate the cost of Capacity Based Licensing
for a Nutanix Cluster?
67. prospective customer's migration to their new SAN started six months ago and is still not
complete. The VP of IT state the previous migration to the existing SAN took almost eight months to
complete. How should the systems engineer describe Nutanix hardware refreshes to this
prospective customer?
Manual hardware refreshes take time, and the systems engineer understands the
customer's current situation
New nodes can be added to an existing cluster, and then the old nodes can be removed
Setting and AHV node's EVC mode is a very fast process that will shorten the upgrade time
With AHV, vMotion between clusters occurs faster than than on a SAN-based cluster
69. Which AOS License is needed for a customer to configure a many to one replication?
Start
Ultimate
Xi Leap
Pro
70. 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)
Disaster Recovery
Backup
Remote Snapshot
NearSync
71. A customer has an application that consists of 6 VMs on their legacy 3-Tier VSphere
environment. The customer
to a Nutanix cluster running AHV.
72. A prospective customer discusses challenges around their public cloud migration project.
Spending has exception
over the prior 12 months. Some workloads are consuming more resources than originally
anticipated. While --
assessment to determine which workloads should be brought back on premises, they are
concerned about
costs.
Another concern is that workload repatriation will cause push back from the application owners and
development --
accustomed to the instant, self-service capabilities offered by the public cloud.
Which two Nutanix products should be recommended to help this prospective customer (Choose
two)
Karbon
Flow
Beam
Calm
73. Which service runs on all nodes in a cluster, and is responsible for starting and stopping other
cluster services
Zookeeper
Cassandra
Genesis
Stargate
75.A single disk fails in an 8-node Nutanix cluster configured with RF2
Only the CVM on the mode with the failed drive contributes to reprotection
The RAID controller on the mode with the failed drive reprotects data using a hot spare
All available CVMs and disks in the cluster contribute to reprotection
Only the CVM on the node with the second copy of the data contributes to reprotection