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The questions for NCSE Core were last updated at Dec 31,2024.
- Exam Code: NCSE Core
- Exam Name: Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer-Core (NCSE-Core)
- Certification Provider: Nutanix
- Latest update: Dec 31,2024
AN SE determines that a POC is necessary to overcome competitive FUD in an opportunity with an Enterprise account evaluating several HCI solutions. The customer will evaluate three solutions in their datacenter simultaneously over the course of 4 days.
The customer schedules all necessary personnel to be available during this time.
Which two network planning items should the SE determine prior to allocation hardware for the POC? (Choose two)
- A . VLAN tags
- B . CVM and hypervisor IP address
- C . TOR switch redundancy configuration
- D . Switch port type
- E . Source and number of cables
A systems engineer is building a solution for a federal government prospect that requires. FIPS 140-2 Level 2 encryption for data at rest.
Which two items are required to deliver a solution that meets the encryption standard? (Choose two)
- A . Nutanix Software Encryption
- B . Nutanix Prism Pro Licensing
- C . A supported key Management Server
- D . Self-Encrypting Drive
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
An SE is building a solution for Federal government prospect that requires FIPS 140-2 Level 2 encryption for data at rest.
Which two items are required to deliver a solution that meets the encryption standard? (Choose two)
- A . Nutanix Acropolis Pro License.
- B . Self-Encrypting Drives.
- C . A supported Key Management Server.
- D . Nutanix Prism Pro Licensing.
- E . Nutanix Software encryption.
A prospective customer is concerned about the suitability and design of using Nutanix for an upcoming Avaya IP Office migration.
Which type of document should the systems engineer (SE) Provide?
- A . Knowledge Base Article
- B . Best Practice Guide
- C . Field Advisory
- D . Reference Architecture
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
Where are Leap Availability Zones configured?
- A . Cloud Connect
- B . Controller VM
- C . Prism Element
- D . Prism Central
D
Explanation:
Terminology
✑ Availability Zone C it is represented by all resources (Nutanix Clusters) connected to Prism Central or Xi Leap Availability zone. Depends on the architecture, Availability zone can represent geographic territory, datacenter or server room in the datacenter. Protection policies C in protection policies you set up (RPO, Retention), rules to auto-apply policies to virtual machines
https://vmwaremine.com/2019/02/08/nutanix-leap-runbooks-part-1/#sthash.VwrzSzhQ.dpbs
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.
CPU utilization climbs above 90% on several VMs. This causes performance degradation for a business-critical application.
How can alerts be configured to notify the administrator before VM CPU utilization hits 90%?
- A . On a CVM, use ncli to set the VM CPU Check threshold for the critical VMs to a value below 90%.
- B . On the Health dashboard, locate the VM CPU Check and lower the alert threshold below 90%.
- C . On a CVM, configure a cron job to run the VM CPU Check more frequently and email the result.
- D . On the Alerts dashboard, ensure that the VM CPU usage alert is not set to auto-resolve.
B
Explanation:
Reference: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Web-Console-Guide-Prismv5_16:Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v5_16
What are two things that the ADS service does for VMs within AHV? (Choose two.)
- A . Invoke workload movement if there is contention of resources.
- B . Invoke workload movement when there is no contention of resource
- C . Balance VMs throughout the Cluster when the VM is first powered on
- D . Re-balance powered-on VMs evenly throughout the cluster