NCSE-CORE Online Practice Questions and Answers

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 prospect uses VMware, Oracle and Microsoft products for their critical operations. The prospect prefers an all-flash array because they have significantly invested in servers for their oracle environment to save on licensing costs. Which feature should be discussed to address this objection?

A. AHV

B. Hyper-V Support.

C. ABS

D. All-flash nodes.

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

An SE is building a solution for a federal goverment prospect that u???

Which two items are required to deliver a solution that meens the ??? encryption (choose two)

A. Nutanix Acropolis Pro Licensing

B. Self-Encrypting Drives

C. A supported Key Management Server

D. Nutanix Software Encryption

A prospective customer has a requirement for Data-at-Rest-Encryption for all their data Which two license options are available to address this requirement? (Choose two)

A. Pro with the Encryption SKU

B. Ultimate

C. Pro

D. Starter with the Encryption SKU

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 璮lat.vmdk files for the VM based on the VM UUID

C. Import the VM's 璮lad.vmdk files using the Image Service

D. Import the VM's .nvram file using the Image Service

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?

***Exhibit is Missing***

A. Option A

B. Option B

C. Option C

D. Option D

An administrator needs to report on any alerts generated by a Nutanix cluster that affected the cluster's availability over the past 10 days. Which method should be used to locate these events?

A. On the Health dashboard, use the Log Collector to export data based on time stamp.

B. Export the cluster event log to a CSV on the Alerts dashboard.

C. On the Alerts dashboard, filter based on Impact Type and the desired Time Range.

D. Configure an Alert Policy to generate an email with the data on the Health dashboard.

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.

A systems engineer is sizing a configuration for a cluster that needs to tolerate up to 2 simultaneous disk failures across different nodes. What is the minimum number of nodes required?

A. 3

B. 4

C. 5

D. 6

An SE is performing a sizing exercise for a large financial institution.

They plan to move 8000 VMs to Nutanix AHV manage those clusters using Prism Central.

Which sizing configuration should the SE use for each Prism Central VM?

A. 2 vCPU / 8gig MEM /200 gig Storage

B. 4 vCPU / 16gig MEM /500 gig Storage

C. 8 vCPU / 32gig MEM /2500 gig Storage

D. 10 vCPU / 48gig MEM /3500 gig Storage

How should an administrator correct an SSL error when connecting to a Nutanix cluster?

A. Add the SSL certificate to the workstation's trusted people store

B. Create a new self-signed certificate for the cluster with a 4096 bit key

C. Create a new SSL certificate for the cluster signed by an AD certificate authority

D. Add the SSL certificate to an AD group policy applied to all computer objects

A customer is evaluating Nutanix to replace their existing 200TB filer. The filer is used to store archived images. To achieve maximum storage density. RF2 and Erasure Coding are proposed.

What is the minimum number of nodes required to support the maximum Erasure Coding stripe size of 4/1 (data/parity)?

A. 4 Nodes

B. 5 Nodes

C. 6 Nodes

D. 7 Nodes

In the event of a primary datacenter failure. a customer wants to power on virtual machines in a secondary datacenter with an RPO and RTO of no more than 15 minutes. Upon further discussions with the customer. the systems engineer (SE) finds that round trip latency between the 2 sites ca reach up to 6ms Which Nutanix feature should the SE recommend?

A. Metro Availability

B. Rack Awareness

C. NearSync

D. Fault Tolerance FT1

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)