NCSE-Level-1 Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer (NCSE): Level 1 Questions and Answers

prospect uses Vmware, Oracle, and Microsoft products for a critical application. 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?

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

During a meeting with a prospect a storage administrator comments that they ' re currently using 16Gb Fibre Channel for their SAN and believes that 10Gb Ethernet can ' t provide adequate bandwidth or low latency.

As a followup to the meeting, which Nutanix Bible section would be most helpful in overcoming the storage administrator ' s objection?

A prospect provides the following details for sizing active working set based on their existing server virtualization environment:

Full backup reports:

January: 10TB

February: 11TB

March: 12TB

April: 13TB

May: 14TB

Average Read/Write Ratio - 75/25

When entering a Raw Input in Sizer, what should the SE use as the minimum amount of required SSD Storage?

A prospect needs to refresh their environment but has a very small budget for the project. Four years after their last infrastructure refresh, the prospect ' s core datacenter is only running at 40% utilization. In addition, they have 25 satelite offices.

Each office has a requirement to run 4 to 6 VMs locally.

Which two Nutanix platform capabilities should the SE hlight to address the prospects concerns? (Choose two)

Oracle HCL for certified Joint Support with Nutanix has Oracle Linux and Oracle VM via iSCSI listed.

What Nutanix feature is used by this certified Configuration.

A prospect indicates a requirement to replicate data offsite for a production workload.

Which three questions the SE ask about the prospect ' s requirement?

(Choose three.)

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 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?

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 prospect is evaluating HEP SimpliVity and Nutanix Software-Only on HPE servers and receives FUD from the competition regarding HPE not supporting or officially partnering with Nutanix.

which two items should be leveraged to overcome concern about product supportability? (Choose two)

During a sales motion with a new prospect, the prospect asks to do a POC so they can experience Nutanix in their environment.

What is the most important item the SE must have in place with the prospect before moving forward with a POC?

Which option should be recommended for a customer to get timely notification of significant product issues in the field.

An SE is performing workload discovery with an SMB prospect running SQL Server. The databases is less than 1 TB, but its performance and uptime are critical to the prospect ' s business operations. Sizer sugests using 1065S nodes.

Which aspects of the NX-1065S-G5 would cause an SE to filter out that nodel from Sizer ' s Automatic configuration? (choose

two.)

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 prospect is concerned about the suitability and design of using Nutanix for an upcoming Avaya IP Office migration.

Which type of document should the SE provide?

A prospects main goal are to replace their mainframe environment, cut their datacenter footprint, and improve disaster recovery for mission critical applications.

Which collection of documents should the SE use to show the prospect how Nutanix can help them reach their goals?

Refer to Exhibit.

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

Which website acts as a single gateway for all Nutanix deal registrations, forums, software downloads, product documentation product alerts and support interactions?

An SE and a prospect decide on a specific node configuration. The SE changes the Sizer scenario from Automatic to manual mode to select the exact configuration decided with the prospect.

What additional detail should the SE now consider in the Sizing scenario?

A prospect is interested in evaluating Nutanix at no cost for a few months, but wants to useexisting test hardware to deploy a few VMs.

Their primary interest is in experiencing platform management and not application or benchmark performance.

Which approach should an SE recommend?