Nutanix NCSE Core Practice Exams
Last updated on Apr 01,2025- Exam Code: NCSE Core
- Exam Name: Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer-Core (NCSE-Core)
- Certification Provider: Nutanix
- Latest update: Apr 01,2025
How long must data be ‘write-cold’ before Erasure Coding can begin optimization?
- A . 1 hours
- B . 6 hours
- C . 1 days
- D . 7 days
A customer is asking for a quote for a hybrid cluster to run general purpose VMs and an
ERP application containing a 500GB database. The customer has a VSAN ReadyNode quote already and looking for a comparable Nutanix solution.
They share the following specifications :
3 hosts
2 x E5-2640v4 CPU
512GB RAM
1 x 480GB SSD
2 x 8TB HDD
2 x 1GB NIC
Which two aspects of the requested configuration should cause concern and need for further discovery? (Choose two.)
- A . 2 x E5-2640v4 CPU
- B . 512GB RAM
- C . 1 x 480GB SSD
- D . 2 x 8TB HDD
- E . 2 x 1GB NIC
Refer to the exhibit.
Based on the Sizing scenario, what level of resiliency can be inferred about the configuration?
- A . RF3
- B . N+1
- C . N+0
- D . N+2
An SE is conducting a first call presentation with their Account Executive and a prospect. The prospect needs to build a private cloud but has been unable to implement the solution in-house, since using their traditional architecture would require integrating server, storage and networking solutions from six different vendors.
The cost and complexity of that approach is too high. Also their current infrastructure is not built for scalability or performance.
The prospect has considered upgrading their traditional server and SAN storage platforms but could not meet requirements for scale and performance using this approach.
In what order should the SE present the critical product and technology portions of the First Customer Presentation to the IT Director?
- A . Native convergence of traditional infrastructure.
Scalable distributed system.
Data locality and distributed data.
Application automation with Calm.
Xi Cloud Services. - B . Application automation with Calm.
Xi Cloud Services.
Native convergence of traditional infrastructure.
Scalable distributed system.
Data locality and distributed data. - C . Xi Cloud Services.
Application automation with Calm.
Native convergence of traditional infrastructure.
Scalable distributed system.
Data locality and distributed data. - D . Data locality and distributed data.
Scalable distributed system.
Native convergence of traditional infrastructure.
Xi Cloud Services.
Application automation with Calm.
During a meeting with a fortune 100 prospect, an SE achieves technical buy-in from the architecture team. The prospect shares that their management recently attended an executive briefing with Cisco and was impressed by the vision presented.
Management is pushing the arching the architecture tea to adopt Cisco as their HCI standard based on a beief that Nutanix is not a major player.
Which resource should an SE highlight?
- A . Garther magic Quadrant
- B . ESG Performance Analysis
- C . Net Promoter Score
- D . Reference architectures
A prospect provides sizing details for a new application that will require 15TiB of usable storage. The prospect needs to plan for an additional 20% storage growth as part of the initial purchase.
Including capacity to fully re-protect in the event of a node failure, which configuration provides minimal cost while meeting the capacity requirement?
- A . Option A
- B . Option B
- C . Option C
- D . Option D
A systems engineer is building a private cloud for internal developers that should include self-service and life cycle management for both kubernetes containers and SQL databases.
Which additional license feature must be purchased to provide this capability?
- A . Nutanix Era
- B . Nutanix Flow
- C . Prism Pro
- D . Nutanix Beam
ABC Corp currently has 50 VMs currently running in production and is interested in sizing a DR cluster. The RTO is 4 hours and the RPO is 2 hours .
Each VM has 100GB of data, with a 5% daily change rate .for retention the customer wants to keep 2 weeks of snaps on the DR cluster.
What is the minimum amount of storage capacity for the remote cluster to meet the customer’s data retention
- A . 6TB to 7TB
- B . 8TB to 9TB
- C . 10TB to 11TB
- D . 14TB to 15T
A prospective customer is concerned about having a single-pane-of-glass manage their infrastructure because it also provides a single-point-of-failure.
How does the Nutanix Prism architecture address this concern?
- A . Prism user Linked Mode for HA
- B . Prism is Deployed in a 3-node HA configuration
- C . Prism is protected by RF2
- D . Prism runs on every CVM
An administrator is migrating ESXi VMs to a Nutanix AHV cluster. The VM data is available to the AHV system.
Which process must the administrator complete below AHV VMs can be create?
- A . Import the VMs .vmx file using the Image Service
- B . Rename the Cflat.vmdk files for the VM based on the VM UUID
- C . Import the VM’s Cflad.vmdk files using the Image Service
- D . Import the VM’s .nvram file using the Image Service