Nutanix Nutanix SE Academy NCSE-CORE Questions & Answers

• Question 11:

  From Which page on portal.nutanix.com can an open case be directly escalated?

  A. Home

  B. View Cases

  C. 360 View

  D. Case Detail

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 12:

  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)

  A. System availability issues

  B. SQL Server performance issues

  C. ""Shadow IT"" that increases the risk of security breaches and brand damage

  D. Slow response time from the infrastructure group (SLAs) that could result in product release delays

  E. significantly degraded end user experience

  Correct Answer: AD

• Question 13:

  An administrator is deploying several new application VMs to a Nutanix Cluster. The application is very transactional with a 28/72 random, read/write ratio. What should the administrator do?

  A. Add one large SSD to each node and enable Flash Mode for the VMs.

  B. Add a minimum of four virtual disks to each VM and aggregate them on guest OS level.

  C. Add a minimum of four SSDs to each node to ensure all write go to the SSDs.

  D. Add one large virtual disk to each VM and use it for all application data.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 14:

  What are two key Nutanix value propositions? (Choose two)

  A. One-Click Infrastructure Management

  B. Rapid time to value

  C. Highest performance across all workload types

  D. Lowest initial cost than a comparable competitive HCI or 3-tier solution

  Correct Answer: AC

• Question 15:

  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 the SE configure Sizer for this scenario?

  A. Yes

  B. Mine

  C. Veeam

  D. Async

  E. HYCU

  Correct Answer: AB

• Question 16:

  A prospect is replacing a 3-tier virtualization infrastructure made up of several ESXi hosts and a SAN. The prospect recently bought a new 4-socket server to host their SQL server workload which uses the same SAN.

  Which feature allows the prospect to continue using their new server without buying another SAN?

  A. Heterogeneous clusters

  B. Acropolis Block Services (ABS)

  C. Virtual Fiber Channel Controller

  D. Acropolis Container Services(ACS)

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 17:

  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 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 ?

  A. Switch to manual and change the CPUs of the node configuration to a dual 10 core model

  B. Switch to manual sizing and increase the RAM of the node configuration to 384 GB

  C. increase the vCPU:CPU ratio of the Webserver workload to 6:1

  D. increase the RAM of the web server workload to 10 GB per VM.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 18:

  30. 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?

  A. Mine

  B. Files

  C. Volumes

  D. Objects

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 19:

  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?

  A. Volume Group Load Balancer

  B. Data Locality

  C. Shadow Clones

  D. App Mobility Fabric

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 20:

  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?

  A. Nutanix Calm

  B. Nutanix Xi Frame

  C. Nutanix Files

  D. Nutanix Beam

  Correct Answer: C