NCSE-Core Practice Test Questions

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Which tool could be used to perform a sizing discovery in a general server virtualization environment running both VMware ESXi and Nutanix AHV?


A. MAP


B. Collector


C. AWR


D. RVTools





B.
  Collector

A customer plans to migrate a business critical, high transaction application to nutanix. Currently the application is running on a physical server with 256GB of RAM and 12 CPU cores at > 80% utilization. To run the VM on a single NUMA node, which processor configuration should the systems engineer recommend for this workload?


A. CPUs (16 Cores each @ 2.8GHz), 32 Cores total


B. CPUs (8 Cores each @ 1.8Ghz), 16 Cores total


C. CPUs (10 Cores each @ 3.4Ghz), 20 Cores total


D. CPUs (8 Cores each @ 2.1Ghz), 16 Cores total





C.
  CPUs (10 Cores each @ 3.4Ghz), 20 Cores total

Refer to Exhibit.

When entering a Raw Input workload into Sizer, what amount of RAM should be used for the entire workload?


A. 32GB


B. 42GB


C. 48GB


D. 64GB





A.
  32GB

A healthcare prospect looking to refresh their infrastructure with Nutanix has an initiative to migrate 5 Petabytes of unstructured, archived patient data. Which Nutanix product should be the focus of the discussion?


A. Mine


B. Files


C. Volumes


D. Objects





D.
  Objects

A prospect has 8500GB of capacity provisioned for a non-production VMware cluster. As Part of migrating to Nutanix. the prospect agrees to convert any thick provisioned disks to thin provisioned disks. Based on additional data. the total active working set for the cluster has been datermined to be 1TB. When entering the Raw input workload into Sizer, what is the minimum amount of HDD Capacity required for the workload?


A. 3.0TiB


B. 3.5TiB


C. 4.0TiB


D. 7.5TIB





A.
  3.0TiB

Where are Leap Availability Zones configured?


A. Cloud Connect


B. Controller VM


C. Prism Element


D. Prism Central





D.
  Prism Central

Explanation: Terminology
Availability Zone – 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 – in protection policies you set up (RPO, Retention), rules to auto-apply policies to virtual machines.

In which scenario should shadow clones be explicitly disabled?


A. when deploying Horizon View virtual desktops


B. when deploying Splunk


C. when deploying an Oracle RAC database


D. when deploying Citrix virtual desktops





C.
  when deploying an Oracle RAC database

An SE needs to leverage Change Block Tracking when using Xtract to migrate VMs from ESXi to AHV. Which two source VM requirements should the SE verify? (Choose two)


A. Minimum guest OS version


B. VMware Tools installed


C. Virtual hardware version


D. Nutanix Guest Tools installed.





A.
  Minimum guest OS version

D.
  Nutanix Guest Tools installed.

A customer intends to build out their VDI environment over a period of 18 months. They require a consistent user experience as their numbers grow. what element of the Nutanix WebScale architecture would a systems engineer discuss with them?


A. All intelligence in software


B. No single point of failure


C. Nutanix can run on multiple hardware vendor platforms


D. Linear performance with predictable scaling





D.
  Linear performance with predictable scaling

Refer to the exhibit.

In Sizer, in which two ways can an SE accommodate a specific number of physical hostbased software licenses that a customer has available for a project? (Choose two)


A. A


B. B


C. C


D. D





B.
  B

D.
  D

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.
  Increase the RAM capacity per Node

B.
  Increase the number of Nodes

An administrator has a VM that consumes large amounts of storage and has the following characteristics:
• Create large / sequential writes
• Data must be kept for years
• Data is normally only accessed at the end of the year to run report
The administrator decides to use Erasure Coding to save space.
Which feature should the administrator utilize to save space for this VM?


A. Inline Compression


B. Flash Mode


C. Cache Dedup


D. Post-Process Compression





A.
  Inline Compression


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