Nutanix Nutanix SE Academy NCSE-CORE Questions & Answers

• Question 1:

  A customer intends to build out their VDI environment over a period of 18 months. They require a consistent user experience as their numbers grow. what element of the Nutanix WebScale architecture would a systems engineer discuss with them?

  A. All intelligence in software

  B. No single point of failure

  C. Nutanix can run on multiple hardware vendor platforms

  D. Linear performance with predictable scaling

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 2:

  An administrator needs to relocate an AHV cluster to a new datacenter during a maintenance windows. The cluster will use the same IPs in the new datacenter.

  Which two steps should be taken to prepare for this task? (Choose Two)

  A. Stop all Nutanix Files clusters

  B. Reconfigure IPMI for the new datacenter.

  C. Relocate the linked LDAP server

  D. Shut down all user VMs in the cluster

  Correct Answer: AD

• Question 3:

  A prospective customer is evaluating solutions to support a project. The systems engineer proposes a hybrid model as recommended by Sizer. The prospect is concerned about the performance of a hybrid configuration and is evaluating an all flash array. Which two Nutanix features should be discussed to address the concerns of the prospective customer? (Choose two)

  A. AHV Turbo Mode

  B. Data Locality

  C. Automatic Data Tiering

  D. Acropolis Dynamic Scheduler

  Correct Answer: AB

• Question 4:

  An administrator needs to make sure an RF2 cluster can survive a complete rack failure without negatively effecting workload performance. The current cluster configuration consists of the following:

  1.

  30 nodes: distributed 10 nodes per rack across three 42U rack

  2.

  Each nodes is configured with 40TB usable storage all flash (Cluster Total 1.2 PB Usable)

  3.

  Current cluster utilization is 900TB storage

  Which configuration changes should be made to make sure that the cluster meets the requirements?

  A. Expanse the cluster by adding 3 additional nodes per rack, 9 nodes total.

  B. Expanse the cluster by adding 2 additional nodes per rack, 6 nodes total.

  C. Expanse the cluster by adding 9 nodes to a new 42U rack

  D. Expanse the cluster by adding 8 nodes to a new 42U rack

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 5:

  An administrator is managing multiple Windows and Linux VMs connected to Nutanix Volumes. The Linux VMs are experiencing intermittent connectivity issue. The Windows VMs do not experience the same issue. Which option should the administrator use to resolve this issue?

  A. Utilize a separate subnet for the Linux VMs

  B. Add additional disks to the Volume Group

  C. Set the SCSI timeout value to 60

  D. Utilize Jumbo Frames

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 6:

  Refer to the exhibit.

  

  Assuming a prospect is currently using Thick Provisioned virtual disk, at a minimum, which two tabs should be evaluated in an RVTools report to determine required resources for sizing? (Choose two.)

  A. vInfo

  B. vNetwork

  C. vPartition

  D. vCluster

  E. vDisk

  Correct Answer: AC

• Question 7:

  An SE and a prospect decide on a specific node configuration. The SE changes the Sizer scenario from Automatic to manual mode to select the exact configuration decided with the prospect.

  What additional detail should the SE now consider in the Sizing scenario?

  A. Curator Capacity.

  B. Block Awareness.

  C. N + 1 availability.

  D. CVM Memory overhead.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 8:

  How will an HDD failure affect VMs with data on the failed device?

  A. The VMs will crash, and will be restarted once the failed HDD has been replaced and the data has been restored.

  B. A live migration will be initiated, moving the affected VMs to a host that contains the replica data.

  C. The VMs will remain operational on that host and continue to function normally with no noticeable impact

  D. An HA event will occur, causing the affected VMs to restart on a node that contains the replica data.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 9:

  Which two targets are valid options when selecting a remote site to Prism? (Choose Two)

  A. XI Cloud Services

  B. Physical Cluster

  C. Network attached storage

  D. Cloud

  E. Tape Library

  Correct Answer: BD

• Question 10:

  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)

  A. Data Retention

  B. Network Bandwidth

  C. Number of Events

  D. Number of Datastores

  E. Concurrent Search Users

  Correct Answer: AE