Nutanix NCSE Core Practice Exams
Last updated on Apr 07,2025- Exam Code: NCSE Core
- Exam Name: Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer-Core (NCSE-Core)
- Certification Provider: Nutanix
- Latest update: Apr 07,2025
Which two items are considered by Sizer when calculating the required cluster resources with only the Raw input workload type for a multi-VM workload? (Choose two)
- A . The vCPU:pCore ratio applied for specific VMs
- B . Large VM NUMA requirements
- C . The required RAM for the CVM
- D . The vCPU:pCore ratio applied to all VMs
An administrator finds that home shares cannot be configured in a new Files 3.5 deployment.
Why is this happening?
- A . NFS default access is set to Read Only
- B . Access Based Enumeration is not enabled.
- C . The system is deployed as a single FSVM.
- D . Multi-protocol access is not configured.
Which two Citrix desktop creation capabilities are supported on Nutanix AHV? (Choose two)
- A . Provisioning Service
- B . System Center Virtual Machine Manager
- C . Composer
- D . Machine Creation Services
- E . Desktop Delivery Controller
Which type of data is distributed by Zookeeper to ensure availability in the case of node or block failure?
- A . User Data
- B . Metadata
- C . Configuration Data
- D . Snapshot Data
Refer to Exhibit:
An administrator logs in to Prism and sees the status shown in the exhibit within the
Hardware Diagram section.
What should the administrator do?
- A . Reseat all disk immediately. If this does not help, reseat the nodes.
- B . Check status of applications running on the cluster and call support.
- C . Resolve all alerts and re-import the disks to make sure there is no service disruption.
- D . Restart all CVMs for the cluster to check, confirm health and repartition and add the disks.
An administrator is managing a highly active SQL workload that is writing I/Os in 2 MB chunks to a vDisk. The administrator wants to optimize capacity setting for the computer.
Which storage optimization technology should the administration select to meet these requirement?
- A . Erasure Coding
- B . Compression
- C . Capacity Deduplication
- D . Cache Deduplication
A systems engineer sizers an environment based on the customer’s requirement of N+2 resiliency for the entire cluster. In which two ways could the configuration be changed to meet the customer’s requirements? (Choose Two)
- A . Increase the RAM capacity per Node
- B . Increase the number of Nodes
- C . Increase the CPU capacity per Node
- D . Increase the SSD capacity per Node
A customer needs to increase availability in their Nutanix environment by enabling rack awareness. The current configuration consists of: 1 RF2 cluster consisting of 7 identical NX-3170 1U nodes, All Storage efficiencies are disabled.
Which two changes should the systems engineer propose to meet the customer requirements? (Choose two)
- A . Add 1 additinal NX-3170 1U node.
- B . Add 2 additional NX-3170 1U nodes.
- C . Distribute nodes across 2 separate racks.
- D . Distribute nodes across 3 separate racks.
A prospect customer’s expected workload consists of the following: 110 vCPU 512GB RAM * 500TB Storage They need a solution to help decrease storage costs. The majority of their storage requirements come from an imaging application that stores scanned JPEG images.
Which two Nutanix capabilities should be leveraged? (Choose two.)
- A . Erasure Coding
- B . Storage-Only Nodes
- C . Capacity Tier Deduplication
- D . Compression
A prospect is evaluating Nutanix for a large number of Oracle RAC deployments. Time to deployment is a top priority, and the prospect has developed a self-service tool in-house to expedite these deployments.
Which Nutanix feature should be discussed?
- A . Calm
- B . Xtract for Databases
- C . ABS
- D . REST API