Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer-Core (NCSE-Core 6.8)
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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)
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An administrator increases the cluster RF to 3. The containers are not modified.
What will the new values in the data resiliency dashboard be for FAILURES TOLERABLE for the Zookeeper and Extent Groups components?
A prospective customer's migration to their new SAN started six months ago and is sill not complete. The VP of IT state the previous migration to the existing SAN took almost eight months to complete. How should the systems engineer describe Nutanix hardware refreshes to this prospective customer
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 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?
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Based on the sizing scenario, what level of resiliency can be inferred about the configuration?
A System engineer (SE) is gathering requirements to size a hybrid cluster to replace a prospect's existing IT test and development environment. The prospective customer has indicated the cluster contains no business critical applications and has provided the aggregate vCPU and RAM requirements of the existing cluster. which two additional items does the SE require to size the cluster?(Choose two)
During an initial discussion. a prospective customer indicates they are strongly considering vSAN for their HCI initiative. The prospect's workloads are mostly read-intensive and they have over 1PB of archival data. The prospect expects to save on costs using storage efficiencies that their existing platform does not support. Which two Nutanix differentiators should the systems engineer discuss? (Choose two.)
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
A prospective customer wants to migrate database workloads to Nutanix. They are currently running these workloads on a 3-tier vSphere architecture made up of 5 hosts connected to a hybrid SAN over 10G iSCSI. The hosts each have 256G RAM and 2 Broadwell 2.8Ghz 12 core processors. The largest database VM is configured with 64G of memory. Some databases are fairly old and single threaded Current performance is deemed acceptable. Which configuration component is most important to maintain the customer experience on a new Nutanix cluster and minimize costs ?
A customer has a requirement to run a single instance Oracle Database VM on AHV that is driving over 250,000 IOPs. Which AOS feature should be positioned to deliver the highest level of performance?
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)
Compared to a 3-tier architecture, Which two benefits does Nutanix bring to an organization? (Choose two.)
When planning an Oracle database deployment on Nutanix, which best practice should the SE consider?
A prospective customer wants to refresh their current on-premises infrastructure that. consists of 4 ESXi hosts. each with 20 cores and 512GB of RAM, and 1.2PB of usable SAN storage They have recently renewed their ESXi licensing, and all data must remain within their physical network. They are concerned that a hyperconverged solution will not meet their storage requirements without requiring a significant increase in the number of required ESXi hosts and licenses. Which Nutanix capability should the systems engineer review with the customer?
A systems engineer providers a demo to a prospective customer who wants to be more hands on with Nutanix. Which two resources can the customer leverage without support from a systems engineer or Nutanix (Choose two)
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Assuming a prospect is currently using Thick Provisioned virtual disk, at a minimum, which two tabs should be evaluated in an RVTools report to determine required resources for sizing? (Choose two.)
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 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 customer asks for a quote for a hybrid cluster to run general purpose VMs and an ERP application. The customer has a vSAN ReadyNode quote already and is looking for a comparable Nutanix solution. They share the following bill of materials: 3 Hosts , 2x E5-2640v4 CPUs , 512GB RAM , 1 x 480GB SSD , 2 x 8TB HDD , 2 x 1GB NIC What are two reasons to avoid sizing to match a competitor's bill of materials ? (Choose two)
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 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 and SE agree to evaluate Nutanix and a computing platform using XRay.
The prospect is currently using 3-tier architecture and considering Nutanix and HPE Simplivity.
Which two details must be discussed with the prospect before the POC starts? (Choose two)
How long must data be 'write-cold' before Erasure Coding can begin optimization?
A customer needs to deploy 5000 virtual desktops on Nutanix. The requirements call for an active /active deployment, such that an entire site can be made unavailable due to maintenance or disaster without impacting desktop availability. What is the minimum number of nodes necessary to meet the customer's requirements?
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 prospective customer uses both Oracle and Microsoft products for critical
applications. The prospect. prefers an all flash array over HCI, because they have made
a recent, significant investment in physical servers for their Oracle environment to save
on licensing costs. Which feature should be discussed to address this objection?
A customer who uses Nutanix for mission critical workloads is considering migrating public cloud workloads to Nutanix. The customer has experienced difficulty auditing where applications reside and understanding cloud costs on a per application basis.
Which Nutanix product should be discussed to address the customer'sneeds?
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 customer wants to evaluate the performance impact of failing a node while running workloads on the cluster. Which tool should a systems engineer use to accomplish this task?
A custormer's database administrator is concerned about restoring data locality for their VMs after they migrate during an AHV upgrade. Which feature that addresses the issue should the systems engineer highlight?
An SE is working to size a prospects environment that includes production Oracle databases.
Which Oracle output should the SE request from the prospect to collect accurate sizing information?
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)?
Which configuration can be used the data encryption on a nutanix cluster regardless of the hardware configuration?
A prospect is evaluating solutions to support a project. The SE proposes a hybrid model as recommended by size in addition to nutanix, the prospect is evaluating an all flash storage array. The storage administrator is concerned about the performance the hybrid configuration and claims that the flash array is less expensive the it Director sees the benefits of Nutanix but needs to address the team's concerns.
Which two Nutanix features should be discussed to address the concems
of the storage administrator? (Choose two)
Refer to the exhibit.
Using the Sizing Options shown, which two configurations are valid when using Sizer in Automatic mode?(Choose two.)
A prospect's business is growing 100% year over year. The prospect is interested in Nutanix for their main datacenter due to the alility to scale quickly and easily. They have three remote sites that will be refreshed within the next year. Each site needs to replicate to their many datacenter. The SE proposes the Nutanix NX line, and the prospect asks to utilize the Xpress line.
For which reason is the Xpress line the wrong choice? (Choose two)
A customer has two mission-critical applications and needs to have them backup up to a remote location. The remote location is connection using a leased line and has an average latency of 7 ms. Which Nutanix technology will provide the shortest PRO possible?
Which tool could be used to perform a sizing discovery in a general server virtualization environment running both VMware ESXi and Nutanix AHV?
A Nutanix customer needs to migrate 1000VMs from ACME Public Cloud to a local Nutanix cluster ACME Public Cloud operates on VMware ESXi, Hp ProLiant Servers with 3PAR storage. ACME Public Cloud denies customers access to vCenter or ESXi hosts But they do replicate a copy of the virtual disks to external storage.
Which method should the customer use to migrate the VMs to a local Nutanix Cluster?
An administrator finds that home shares cannot be configured in a new Files 3.5 deployment.
Why is this happening?
when reviewing Nutanix cluster upgrades. a customer engineer is concerned that their VM will be forced to repeatedly migrate between nodes. Which Nutanix feature allows VMs to remain on a host during an AOS upgrade?
When using Nutanix Sizer, which solution does the Automatic sizing option provide?
A prospect facing an upcoming Vmware ELA renewal has a management directive to move to the public cloud due to perceived cost savings. Their virtualization team is currently struggling with refactoring applications for AWS. As a result, the virtualization team is pushing to evaluate VXRail and renew their VMware ELA.
Which two aspects of Nutanix shoud the SE Highlight? (Choose two)
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?
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A systems engineer is creating a configuration in Sizer for a customer that is building an app for use as an eBooks repository the app requires the following two workloads:
1. 50 generic web server VMs, each with 2 vCPUs on a 4:1 vCPU ratio, 8 GB of RAM, and 100GB of storage each
2. A fileserver workload with 80TB of usable storage available, which contains mostly PDF's and pre- compressed data.
Any reduction in performance of the web servers must be avoided. After entering the workload with default options, the Sizer outputs the configuration shown in the exhibit.
Which adjustment does the systems engineer need to make to the scenario to meet the performance requirements?
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.
An SE determines a POC is necessary for a prospect that has struggled with application downtime due to hypervisor and firmware upgrades that have exceeded planned maintenance windows. The prospect has also struggled with infrastructure resource planning for their growing development environment.
Which two success criteria should the SE include? (Choose two)
Which Prism Dashboard should be used to collect CPU/Memory and Disk I/O statistics over time?
An existing customer is considering deploying a new Splunk project onto their Nutanix infrastructure. The customer inquires about potential storage capacity saving for their splunk workload.
Which two Nutanix capacity optimization features should the SE recommend? (Choose two)
A systems engineer needs to size a new project that requires offsite backup using Veeam. The prospect requires an RPO of 24 hours, and the ability to restore from the past 7 days of backups. The prospect's data change rate is 1%. How should the SE configure the SE configure Sizer for this scenario? ????
An SE is conducting a first call presentation with their Account Executive and a prospect. The prospect needs to build a private cloud but has been unable to implement the solution in-house, since using their traditional architecture would require integrating server, storage and networking solutions from six different vendors.
The cost and complexity of that approach is too high. Also their current infrastructure is not built for scalability or performance.
The prospect has considered upgrading their traditional server and SAN storage platforms but could not meet requirements for scale and performance using this approach.
In what order should the SE present the critical product and technology portions of the First Customer Presentation to the IT Director?
74. A VP of Applications at a prospective customer is working to transform IT from a cost, center to a business enabler. In order to address this initiative, the VP has identified the following areas for improvement: Increased time and expenses related to meeting business deliverables Missed market opportunity due to slow IT response time Shadow IT increases risk of security breaches and brand damage Unplanned spend on public cloud services (AWS) what two key benefits should the SE review to address the customer's challenges? (Choose two)
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 prospective customer is concerned about having a single-pane-of-glass manage their infrastructure because it also provides a single-point-of-failure. How does the Nutanix Prism architecture address this concern?