NCSE-Level-1 Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer (NCSE): Level 1 Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)
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Refer to the exhibit.
In Sizer, in which two ways can an SE accommodate a specific number of physical host-based software licenses that a customer has available for a project? (Choose two)
Which two items represent measurable POC success criteria? (Choose two.)
During a meeting with a fortune 100 prospect, an SE achieves technical buy-in from the architecture team. The prospect shares that their management recently attended an executive briefing with Cisco and was impressed by the vision presented.
Management is pushing the arching the architecture tea to adopt Cisco as their HCI standard based on a beief that Nutanix is not a major player.
Which resource should an SE highlight?
A customer recently deployed Nutanix for VDI workloads and determine AFS is suitable for their departmental shares. They ask about infrastructure requirements providing the following file workloads specifics:
• 11.8 TB of data.
• 360000 files.
• 2400 Users.
• 800 shares.
Based on the exhibit,
which criteria shared by customer supports the requirement of additional nodes?
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?
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 using the output from RVTools to size the storage capacity for a Nutanix Cluster.
Which value most closely resembles the minimum required storage capacity that should be entered for the aggregate workload in sizer?
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 is provisioning 1,000 linked clone desktops with View Composer for their call center. During a short period between shift changes,desktops must be rebooted.
Which Nutanix feature will help to mitigate the desktop boot times?
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?
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?
A customer has successfully deployed Citrix XenDesktop on Nutanix,
They value the product but view Nutanix as a VDI appliance. The customer mentions a cloud initiative.
Which open-ended discovery question should the SE ask to start a conversation about expanding beyond VDI workloads?
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 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 large retailer company recently employed a CIO who decided that all operations should be migrated to public cloud offerings. After 7 months, the project was be a failure and determined to the CIO exited. The retailer’s infrastructure consisted of tens of thousand’s of VMs on thousands of hosts supported by dozen of storage arrays. Only 10% of workloads were migrated to public cloud during the CIO’s tenure.
Which open ended discovery questions should the SE ask to determine pain points or gaps? (Choose two)
A prospect is experiencing disk performance issues in their database environment. The prospect's databases currently run on physical servers and an iSCSI SAN with spinning disks. Which two Nutanix features should an SE discuss with this prospect to address their disk performance issues? (Choose two)
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.)
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.)
Which website acts as a single gateway for all Nutanix deal registrations, forums, software downloads, product documentation product alerts and support interactions?
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.
Which vCPU:pCore ratio should be used in Sizer?
