Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer (NCSE): Level 1 Sample Questions:

1. 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?

A) View Acceleration Array Intergration''
B) Content Based Read Cache
C) Shadow Clones
D) Performance Tier De-duplication

2. 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)

A) Single node backup
B) Pay as you grow
C) Software only
D) Automated data storage tiering
E) Multi-site management

3. 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 should an SE discuss to convince the prospect to
move forward?

A) Acropolis Block Services
B) Linear scalability by adding more nodes
C) Adding Storage Only nodes
D) Extending storage container with existing SAN storage

4. 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)

A) Slow response time from the infrastructure group (SLAs) that could result in product release delays
B) System availability issues
C) significantly degraded end user experience
D) ""Shadow IT"" that increases the risk of security breaches and brand damage
E) SQL Server performance issues

5. 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?

A) 6
B) 4
C) 5
D) 7

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