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Nutanix NCSE Level 1 Practice Exam: Questions and Answers, Exams of Nursing

A set of practice questions and answers for the nutanix ncse level 1 certification exam. It covers various aspects of nutanix solutions, including acropolis block services (abs), calm, prism 1-click operations, multi-site management, and more. The questions are designed to test your understanding of nutanix concepts and technologies, helping you prepare for the actual exam.

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NUTANIX NCSE LEVEL 1 PRACTICE EXAM
Questions and Answers Latest Updates
2025 TOP RATED A+
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?
1. Heterogeneous clusters
2. Acropolis Block Services (ABS)
3. Virtual Fiber Channel Controller
4. Acropolis Container Services(ACS)": - correct answer Acropolis Block Services (ABS)
A prospect is seeking a Nutanix solution for a mission critical application that needs to sustain two
simultaneous node outages
and prefers that the cluster be able to fully rebuild both data and metadata in the event hardware
issues.
what is the minimum number of nodes required for the cluster?
4. 7 - correct answer 5
A prospective customer wants to build a private cloud in addition to provisioning workloads across
multiple public cloud
providers.
Presently, the staff lacks the time and skillset for on-premises infrastructure management. Which two
features should qualify this project as a Nutanix opportunity? (choose two)
1. Flow
2. Calm
5. Prism 1-Click operations - correct answer Calm &
Prism 1-Click operations
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)
1. Multi-site management
2. Pay as you grow
3. Automated data storage tiering
4. Software only
5. Single node backup - correct answer Multi-site management &
Pay as you grow
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
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NUTANIX NCSE LEVEL 1 PRACTICE EXAM

Questions and Answers Latest Updates

2025 TOP RATED A+

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?

  1. Heterogeneous clusters
  2. Acropolis Block Services (ABS)
  3. Virtual Fiber Channel Controller
  4. Acropolis Container Services(ACS)": - correct answer Acropolis Block Services (ABS) A prospect is seeking a Nutanix solution for a mission critical application that needs to sustain two simultaneous node outages and prefers that the cluster be able to fully rebuild both data and metadata in the event hardware issues. what is the minimum number of nodes required for the cluster?
  5. 7 - correct answer 5 A prospective customer wants to build a private cloud in addition to provisioning workloads across multiple public cloud providers. Presently, the staff lacks the time and skillset for on-premises infrastructure management. Which two features should qualify this project as a Nutanix opportunity? (choose two)
  6. Flow
  7. Calm
  8. Prism 1-Click operations - correct answer Calm & Prism 1-Click operations 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)
  9. Multi-site management
  10. Pay as you grow
  11. Automated data storage tiering
  12. Software only
  13. Single node backup - correct answer Multi-site management & Pay as you grow 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?

  1. Option D - correct answer Option C 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)
  2. SX is limited to two 4-node clusters.
  3. SX has a lower services cost for installation.
  4. SX is limited to one 4-node cluster.
  5. SX licensing does not support cluster-to-cluster replication
  6. SX licensing will not support many-to-many- cluster replication - correct answer SX is limited to two 4-node clusters & SX licensing will not support many-to-many cluster replication A prospect's existing SAN-based environment regularly experiences unpredictable storage performance and latency spikes during peak utilization. The most highly affected workload is general server virtualization. Which Nutanix feature addresses this pain point?
  7. AHV-Turbo Mode
  8. Data Locality
  9. Shadow Clones
  10. Persistent OpLog - correct answer Data Locality A prospect's storage administrator is concerned about deploying Nutanix for their vSphere server virtualization environment due to anticipated increases to data retention for compliance purposes and associated costs. Which Nutanix feature shoud an SE discuss to convince the prospect to move forward?
  11. Linear scalability by adding more nodes
  12. acropolis Block Services
  13. Adding Storage Only nodes
  14. Extending storage container with existing SAN storage - correct answer Acropolis Block Services A prospect that is currently virtualized using Dell servers is willing to provide a Live Optics report to assist with sizing a partial infrastructure refresh with Nutanix. Which two items from an approach for sampling accurate sizing data with Live Optics? (Choose one)
  15. 24 - hour windows during a period of peak utilization
  16. 12-hour windows during a period of peak utilization - correct answer 24-hour windows during any period A 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 enviroment to save on licensing costs. which feature should be discussed to address this objection?
  17. AHV
  18. Hyper-V support
  19. ABS
  1. Do you have any infrastructure refreshes planned for this year? - correct answer Data locality 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)
  2. Model of Fibre Channel switch
  3. Gather details of customer's existing 3-tier hardware
  4. ldentify appropriate POC hardware
  5. A test plan with agreed upon success criteria
  6. What type of external storage will be connected - correct answer Identity appropriate POC hardware & A test plan with agreed upon success criteria 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?
  7. Start date of the POC
  8. Defined and measurable success criteria
  9. Meeting frequency
  10. Number of Nodes/Block to be used during the POC - correct answer Defined and measurable success criteria From Which page on portal.nutanix.com can an open case be directly escalated?
  11. Home
  12. View Cases
  13. 360 View
  14. Case Detail - correct answer View Cases In a competitive POC scenario, the prospect is testing Nutanix against VxRail and Hyperflex. The customer is interested in an ""All in One"" solution that's simple to deploy, manage, and grow. Which two test plan items should the SE map to POC success criteria? (Choose two)
  15. Deploy HCIbench to determine maximum IOPS.
  16. Deploy Calm to automate application deployment.
  17. Expand the cluster by adding an additional node.
  18. Use a single interface to manage and monitor the full stack.
  19. Enable all data efficiency settings. - correct answer Expand the cluster by adding an additional node. & Use a single interface to manage and monitor the full stack In which scenario should shadow clones be explicitly disabled?
  20. when deploying Horizon View virtual desktops
  21. when deploying Splunk
  22. when deploying an Oracle RAC database
  23. when deploying Citrix virtual desktops - correct answer When deploying an Oracle RAC database 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?
  24. OSS
  25. AFS
  26. ACS
  27. ABS - correct answer ABS

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)

  1. Data Locality
  2. NVMe support
  3. 40Gb/s support
  4. Capacity Planner
  5. Automatic Data Tiering - correct answer Data Locality & Auomatic Data Tiering prospective customer explains their current infrastructure and upcoming goals. They are a fast- growing software company with approximately 3000 employees. Engineering accounts for approximately half of total staff and is behind on product releases. This department has been building their own infrastructure using available hardware, SaaS offerings, and public cloud. There's a new CIO attempting to gain control of existing and incoming information systems while supporting the agile environment responsible for their rapid innovation with a minimal staff. From this information, which two addressable pain points or gaps should be discerned?(Choose two)
  6. System availability issues
  7. SQL Server performance issues
  8. ""Shadow IT"" that increases the risk of security breaches and brand damage
  9. Slow response time from the infrastructure group (SLAs) that could resulf in product release delays
  10. significantly degraded end user experience - correct answer System availability issues & Slow response time from the infrastructure group (SLA's) that could result in product release delays 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/ When entering a Raw Input in Sizer, what should the SE use as the minimum amount of required SSD Storage?
  11. 1.5TB
  12. 3TB
  13. 4.5TB
  14. 6TB - correct answer 3TB Refer to the exhibit. A prospect provides the data shown captured from their existing environment using RVTools. The prospect has additional historical CPU utilization data that indicates peak CPU utilization never exceeds 50% on either physical host.

(Choose two)

  1. VLAN tags
  2. CVM and hypervisor IP address
  3. TOR switch redundancy configuration
  4. Switch port type
  5. Source and number of cables - correct answer Switch port type & Source and number of cables An SE is in the discovery phase with a new customer. The customer is frustrated with the lack of transparency into their environment with the current monitoring tools. The customer has difficulty correlating the degradation of the end user experience with point-in-time events. Which Prism feature should the SE demonstrate to show relevant value?
  6. Analysis page with custom charts and event reporting
  7. A specific virtual machine's Performance Summary
  8. Event tab on the Alerts page
  9. A specific virtual machine's virtual disk Additional Stats - correct answer Analysis page with custom charts and event reporting 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?
  10. 2 vCPU / 8gig MEM /200 gig Storage
  11. 4 vCPU / 16gig MEM /500 gig Storage
  12. 8 vCPU / 32gig MEM /2500 gig Storage
  13. 10 vCPU / 48gig MEM /3500 gig Storage - correct answer 8 vCPU / 32gig MEM /2500 gig Storage 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.)
  14. Single Power Supply
  15. Limited to 4 nodes
  16. 1Gb Networking
  17. Single HDD
  18. Single Socket Processor - correct answer 1GB Networking & Single Socket Processor 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?
  19. STATSPACK
  20. Active Session History Report
  21. Oracle Export Schema
  22. Automatic Workload Repository Report - correct answer Automatic Workload Repository Report An SE needs to size a new project that requires offsite backup but not remote disaster recovery. The prospect requires an RTO of 48 hours, RPO of 4 hours, and the ability to restore from the past 5days of backups. The prospect's data change rate is 1%.

How should the SE configure Sizer for this scenario?

  1. Option D - correct answer Option D When entering a Raw Input workload into Sizer, what amount of RAM should be used for the entire workload?
  2. 64GB - correct answer 32GB When sizing for Splunk, the customer states the daily ingest rate is 500GB and they are currently using Search Factor 2 and Splunk Replication Factor 2. Which two additional input are required by Sizer? (Choose two)
  3. Data Retention
  4. Network Bandwidth
  5. Number of Events
  6. Number of Datastores
  7. Concurrent Search Users - correct answer Data Retention & Concurrent Search Users 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.)
  8. What are the retention requirements?
  9. How much data needs to be replicated?
  10. What OS will be deployed on the server VMs?
  11. What is the WAN speed and latency between source and target sites?
  12. Will Prism Pro be licensed for each cluster? - correct answer What are the retention requirements? & How much data needs to be replicated? & What is the WAN speed and latency between source and target sites? 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?
  13. Best Practice Guide
  14. Reference Architecture
  15. Filed Advisory
  16. Knowledge Base Article - correct answer Reference Architecture 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)
  17. TSAnet
  18. SimpliVity competitive briefing
  19. NX appliances
  20. Nutanix Sizer BOM
  21. Nutanix Software Only HCL - correct answer TSAnet & Nutanix Software Only HCL 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?

product documentation product alerts and support interactions?

  1. my.nutanix.com
  2. nutanixbible.com
  3. support.nutanix.com
  4. portal.nutanix.com - correct answer my.nutanix.com ABC Corp currently has 50 VMs currently running in production and is interested in sizing a DR cluster. The RTO is 4 hours and
  5. the RPO is 2 hours.
  6. 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
  7. cluster.
  8. What is the minimum amount of storage capacity for the remote cluster to meet the customer's data retention
  9. 10TB to 11TB
  10. 14TB to 15TB: - correct answer 8TB to 9TB
  11. A customer is asking for a quote for a hybrid cluster to run general purpose VMs and an ERP application containing a 500GB
  12. database. The customer has a VSAN ReadyNode quote already and looking for a comparable Nutanix solution. They share the
  13. following specifications 3 hosts
  14. 2 x E5-2640v4 CPU
  15. 512GB RAM
  16. 1 x 480GB SSD
  17. 2 x 8TB HDD
  18. 2 x 1GB NIC
  19. Which two aspects of the requested configuration should cause concern and need for further discovery? (Choose two.) - correct answer 480GB SSD
  20. & 1GBNIC
  21. A customer is conceded that IT will not be able to take advantage of Nutanix's frequent feature releases due to the man hour
  22. requirements of maintaining compliance with industry regulatory controls. Which item should the SE discuss at the next customer visit with IT?
  23. Data at Rest Encryption (Software)
  24. Two-factor Authentication
  25. Security Configuration Management Automation (SCMA)
  26. Factory-installed self-encryption drives (SED): - correct answer Security Configuration Management Automation (SCMA)
  27. A customer is provisioning 1,000 linked clone desktops with View Composer for their call center. During a short period between
  28. shift changes,desktops must be rebooted.
  29. Which Nutanix feature will help to mitigate the desktop boot times?
  30. Shadow Clones
  31. Performance Tier De-duplication
  32. Content Based Read Cache
  33. View Acceleration Array Intergration": - correct answer Shadow Clones
  34. A customer plans to migrate a business critical,highly tranactional SQL Server database to Nutanix Currently the databases is
  35. running on a physical server with 256GB of RAM and 12CPU cores at > 80% utilization To run the VM on a single NUMA node, which processor configuration should the SE recommend for this workload?
  1. Intel E5 2680v4 (14 cores each @ 2.4GHZ, 28 Cores total)
    1. Intel E5 2667v4 ( 8 cores each @ 3.2GHZ, 16 Cores total) - correct answer Intel E5 2667v4 ( 8 cores each @ 3.2GHZ, 16 Cores total)
  2. After a meeting with a new prospect to demo Nutanix for a Splunk opportunity, the prospect requests a POC.
  3. To qualify the need for a POC, which question should an SE ask the prospect first?
  4. Are you considering other solutions?
  5. What do you plan to evaluate?
  6. Is this project budgeted?
  7. Which version of Splunk are you running? - correct answer What do you plan to evaluate?
  8. An SE builds a sizer scenario for a prospect's remote site running on an NX-1365S-G5. Using only the sizer BOM. which two actions can be performed? (Choose two.)
  9. Review budgetary pricing
  10. Review workload sizing details
  11. Review power consumption requirements
  12. Review applicable discounts from deal registration
  13. Reference the HCL for additional SKUs relevant to the configuration - correct answer Review workload sizing details
  14. &
  15. Reference the HCL for additional SKUs relevant to the configuration
  16. An SE is building a solution for a federal goverment prospect that u???
  17. Which two items are required to deliver a solution that meens the ??? encryption (choose two)
  18. Nutanix Acropolis Pro Licensing
  19. Self-Encrypting Drives
  20. A supported Key Management Server
  21. Nutanix Software Encryption - correct answer Self-Encrypting Drives &
  22. Nutanix Software Encryption"
  23. An SE is working with a financial institution prospect on a VDI environment refresh. The institution currently has 5000 named VDI
  24. users, with a peak of 2800 concurrent users.
  25. How many VDI VMs does the SE need to size for, factoring in an additional 10% for growth?
    1. 5500 - correct answer 3080
  26. A Nutanix customer needs to migrate 1000VMs from ACME Public Cloud to a local Nutanix cluster ACME Public Cloud operates
  27. on VMware ESXi, Hp ProLiant Servers with 3PAR storage. ACME Public Cloud denies customers access to vCenter or ESXi hosts
  28. But they do replicate a copy of the virtual disks to external storage.
  29. Which method should the customer use to migrate the VMs to a local Nutanix Cluster?
  30. Use Xtract for VMs to migrate VMs from ACME Public Cloud vCenter to local Nutanix cluster.
  31. Deploy Nutanix Community Edition in ACME Public Cloud and replicate VMs to local Nutanix cluster.
  32. Use Calm to automate and orchestrate deployment on the local Nutanix cluster.
  33. Use the latest copy of VMs on external storage to import on the local Nutanix cluster - correct answer Use the latest copy of VMs on
  34. external storage to import on the local Nutanix cluster
  35. A prospect discloses they have had multiple instances of unplanned downtime in the last 3 months due to server hardware failures. The team has been through multiple reorganizations in support