Nutanix NCSE Core Practice Exams
Last updated on Mar 30,2025- Exam Code: NCSE Core
- Exam Name: Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer-Core (NCSE-Core)
- Certification Provider: Nutanix
- Latest update: Mar 30,2025
An HA event occurs, which causes a SQL virtual machine to restart on a different node.
What impact will this cation have on Data Locality?
- A . Data on adjacent nodes will be localized.
- B . VM data will remain as originally written and reads will occur across the network.
- C . Active VM data will be localized
- D . All VM data will be simultaneously migrated as part of the VM migration.
A prospect is planning to refresh hundreds of remote locations. Each location has the following configuration:
• 2x HPE DL360 servers running vSphere, each using its own local storage
• 3-4 Windows VMs with no plans to expand
Scheduling the initial meeting to discuss the opportunity has been challenging as the prospect believes a Nutanix solution would be overpriced for their remote site needs.
What are two Nutanix capabilities the SE should highlight to address solution cost concerns? (Choose two.)
- A . 1 -Node and 2-Node Clusters
- B . Xi DRaaS
- C . Foundation
- D . AHV
A customer recently deployed Nutanix for VDI workloads and determine AFS is suitable for their departmental shares.
They ask about infrastructure requirements providing the following file workloads specifics:
• 11.8 TB of data.
• 360000 files.
• 2400 Users.
• 800 shares.
Based on the exhibit,
Which criteria shared by customer supports the requirement of additional nodes?
- A . 800 shares.
- B . 11.8 TB of data.
- C . 360000 files.
- D . 2400 Users.
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 . Flow
- B . Calms
- C . Cloud Connect
- D . All falsh nodes
- E . Prism 1-Click operations
An administrator receive report that VDI desktop performance in an 8-node Nutanix VDI environment is poor. Opening applications takes between 1 and 2 minutes.
When investigating the issue, the following conditions are found:
• Cluster memory utilization: 80%
• Cluster SSD utilization: 70%
• Average VM CPU wait time: 11 %
• CVM CPU utilization: 75%
Which action should be taken to improve VDI performance?
- A . Increase the amount of SSD storage in the cluster
- B . Ad memory to the nodes in the cluster
- C . Increase the number of vCPU cores allocated to the CVM
- D . Add CPU resources to the cluster
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.
What change will allow EC-X to be enabled?
- A . Add 1 node to the cluster
- B . Add an additional 30TB to the existing cluster
- C . Increase the size of the default storage pool
- D . No changes are required
Which Prism Dashboard should be used to collect CPU/Memory and Disk I/O statistics over time?
- A . Health
- B . Alerts
- C . Hardware
- D . Analysis
An administrator knows that the disk in a cluster are out of date and a new firmware is available. For security reason, these cluster do not have access to the internet.
Which two steps must be completed to update the firmware? (Choose two.)
- A . Download the update firmware .tgz file from the Nutanix Portal.
- B . Download the dark site bundle and stage it on an internal webserver
- C . Configure LCM with a URL to access the firmware bundle.
- D . Select Upgrade Software, then select disks and upload the updated firmware.
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
An SE is using the output from RVTools to size the storage capacity for a Nutanix Cluster.
Which value most closely resembles the minimum required storage capacity that should be entered for the aggregate workload in sizer?
- A . 15 TB.
- B . 24 TB
- C . 37 TB
- D . 39 TB