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Nutanix NCSE-Core Exam
Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer Core (Page 3 )

Updated On: 9-Feb-2026
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PDF with 194 Questions

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.)

  1. 2 x E5-2640v4 CPU
  2. 512GB RAM
  3. 1 x 480GB SSD
  4. 2 x 8TB HDD
  5. 2 x 1GB NIC

Answer(s): C,E



Where are Leap Availability Zones configured?

  1. Cloud Connect
  2. Controller VM
  3. Prism Element
  4. Prism Central

Answer(s): D

Explanation:

Terminology
Availability Zone ­ it is represented by all resources (Nutanix Clusters) connected to Prism Central or Xi Leap Availability zone. Depends on the architecture, Availability zone can represent geographic territory, datacenter or server room in the datacenter. Protection policies ­ in protection policies you set up (RPO, Retention), rules to auto-apply policies to virtual machines


Reference:

https://vmwaremine.com/2019/02/08/nutanix-leap-runbooks-part-1/#sthash.VwrzSzhQ.dpbs



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?

  1. AHV
  2. Hyper-V Support.
  3. ABS
  4. All-flash nodes.

Answer(s): C



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%?

  1. On a CVM, use ncli to set the VM CPU Check threshold for the critical VMs to a value below 90%.
  2. On the Health dashboard, locate the VM CPU Check and lower the alert threshold below 90%.
  3. On a CVM, configure a cron job to run the VM CPU Check more frequently and email the result.
  4. On the Alerts dashboard, ensure that the VM CPU usage alert is not set to auto-resolve.

Answer(s): B


Reference:

https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Web-Console- Guide-Prismv5_16:Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v5_16



What are two things that the ADS service does for VMs within AHV? (Choose two.)

  1. Invoke workload movement if there is contention of resources.
  2. Invoke workload movement when there is no contention of resource
  3. Balance VMs throughout the Cluster when the VM is first powered on
  4. Re-balance powered-on VMs evenly throughout the cluster

Answer(s): B,C






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