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Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer-Core (NCSE-Core 6.8)

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Exam Code	NCSE-Core
Exam Name	Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer-Core (NCSE-Core 6.8)
Questions	198 Questions Answers With Explanation
Update Date	04, 06, 2026
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Question # 1

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. Data locality  
B. Storage Tiering and Prioritization  
C. Cluster Components  
D. Drive Breakdown  
E. Do you have any infrastructure refreshes planned for this year?  

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Question # 2

A customer needs a tool packaged as a VM that uses realistic workloads paired with realworld test scenarios for HCI environments. The goal is to benchmark performance duringtypica! workflows and failure events. Which Nutanix tool meets these requirements?

A. Foundation
B. MoveC. X-RayD. Cluster CheckAnswer: C
C. X-Ray
D. Cluster Check

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Question # 3

Which functionality allows workloads to continue to run on the host when as AOS upgrade occurs?

A. Acropolis Dynamic Scheduler  
B. High Availability  
C. CVM Autopathing  
D. Autonomous Extent Store  

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Question # 4

An administrator needs to configure Acropolis File Service (AFS). The administrator issetting up AFS for the first time on the Nutanix cluster.How many file services VMs are created by default?

A. 4
B. 3
C. 2
D. 1

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Question # 5

An administrator has an existing cluster and needs to improve performance Which two items are required to achieve even greater performance? 

A. Workloads are multi-threaded  
B. VMs have one vCPU configured  
C. VMs have multi-queue disable  
D. VMs have more than one vCPU  

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Question # 6

An administrator has been alerted to a VM that has high I/O latency and wants to determine if there are any other factors, such as insufficient network or memory resources that correlate, as part of a troubleshooting process. Which type of chart should the administrator create to allow all relevant data to be easily exported to CSV for later analysis?

A. A VM entity chart with each of the relevant metrics.  
B. A cluster metric chart for each of the relevant metrics  
C. A cluster entity chart with each of the relevant metrics  
D. A VM metric chart for each of the relevant metrics  

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Question # 7

Which function does the Curator service perform? 

A. Schedules snapshots  
B. Start and stops other cluster services  
C. Stores cluster configuration  
D. Distributes storage optimization tasks  

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Question # 8

Refer to the exhibit.In Sizer, in which two ways can an SE accommodate a specific number of physical hostbased software licenses that a customer has available for a project? (Choose two)

A. Option
B. Option
C. Option
D. Option
E. Option
F. Option

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Question # 9

When creating a multi-cluster scenario in Sizer, what does the Summary Failover Capacity indicator (N+0, N+1) display?

A. The indicator shows the worst resiliency level of any cluster in the scenario  
B. N+0, if the RAM utilization for all cluster in the scenario.  
C. The indicator shows the best resiliency level of any cluster in the scenario  
D. N+0, if the CPU utilization for all clusters falls below N+1 resiliency.  

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Question # 10

An SE is performing workload discovery with an SMB prospect running SQL Server. Thedatabases is less than 1 TB, but its performance and uptime are critical to the prospect'sbusiness operations. Sizer sugests using 1065S nodes.Which aspects of the NX-1065S-G5 would cause an SE to filter out that nodel from Sizer'sAutomatic configuration? (choosetwo.)

A. Single Power Supply
B. Limited to 4 nodes
C. 1Gb Networking
D. Single HDD
E. Single Socket Processor

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Question # 11

Which tool could be used to perform a sizing discovery in a general server virtualization environment running both VMware ESXi and Nutanix AHV?

A. MAP  
B. Collector  
C. AWR  
D. RVTools  

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Question # 12

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. Xi  
B. Beam  
C. Calm  
D. Prism Pro  

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Question # 13

An SE determines a POC is necessary for a prospect that has struggled with applicationdowntime due to hypervisor and firmware upgrades that have exceeded plannedmaintenance windows. The prospect has also struggled with infrastructure resourceplanning for their growing development environment.Which two success criteria should the SE include? (Choose two)

A. The solution provides integrated reporting on resource utilization trends.
B. The solution provides automated upgrades without downtime or performance impact.
C. The solution can accelerate VM provisioning through REST APIs.
D. The solution supports provisioning new storage in less than 15 minutes.

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Question # 14

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. 2 vCPU / 8gig MEM /200 gig Storage  
B. 4 vCPU / 16gig MEM /500 gig Storage  
C. 8 vCPU / 32gig MEM /2500 gig Storage  
D. 10 vCPU / 48gig MEM /3500 gig Storage  

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Question # 15

Which CVM service is responsible for providing storage to the hypervisor? 

A. Genesis  
B. Stargate  
C. Curator  
D. Zookeeper  

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Question # 16

A systems engineer is creating a workload for a Sizer Scenario that requires DisasterRecovery (DR) resources with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 6 hours. The "ProtectVMs and other Entities" setting is set to Yes. Async is selected for the RPO. Which twoother options must be enabled to have Sizer create a DR cluster? (Choose two)

A. Disaster Recovery
B. Backup
C. Remote Snapshot
D. NearSync

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Question # 17

Write I/O that is deemed sequential will enter which component of the Distributed StorageFabric first?

A. Oplog
B. Extent store
C. Cache
D. Metadata Ring

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Question # 18

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)

A. TSAnet  
B. SimpliVity competitive briefing  
C. NX appliances  
D. Nutanix Sizer BOM  
E. Nutanix Software Only HCL  

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Question # 19

An SE builds a Sizer scenario for SQL server running on Cisco C240 M4 servers.Using only the Sizer BOM, which two actions can be performed? (Choose two)

A. Reference the HCL for additional SKU’s relevant to the configuration.
B. Review budgetary pricing.
C. Review workload sizing details.
D. Build a complete BOM in Cisco commerce Workspace (CCW)

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Question # 20

An SE is meeting with a prospect that is refreshing infrastructure in 100 retail locations.Currently the stores use vSphere hosts connected to direct attached storage and aremanaged by 6 separate vCenter servers. On-site retail staff is unqualified to deal with anyhardware break/fix issues.Which two aspects of Nutanix solution should the SE highlight? (Choose two)

A. Self-healing infrastructure.
B. Data Locality.
C. Prism Central.
D. Cloud Connect.

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Question # 21

How should an administrator correct an SSL error when connecting to a Nutanix cluster? 

A. Add the SSL certificate to the workstation’s trusted people store  
B. Create a new self-signed certificate for the cluster with a 4096 bit key  
C. Create a new SSL certificate for the cluster signed by an AD certificate authority  
D. Add the SSL certificate to an AD group policy applied to all computer objects  

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Question # 22

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.) 

A. Compression on Hybrid Nodes
B. Volume Group Load Balancing
C. Data Locality
D. CVM Autopathing

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Question # 23

Which configuration can be used the data encryption on a nutanix cluster regardless of the hardware configuration? 

A. Self-Encryption Drives  
B. Software Encryption  
C. In-line Compression  
D. SSL Certificate  

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Question # 24

A customer needs to deploy 5000 virtual desktops on Nutanix. The requirements call for anactive /active deployment, such that an entire site can be made unavailable due tomaintenance or disaster without impacting desktop availability. What is the minimumnumber of nodes necessary to meet the customer's requirements?

A. 13
B. 26
C. 52
D. 104

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Question # 25

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. Erasure coding.  
B. Post-process compression.  
C. Inline compression.  
D. Capacity tier de-duplication.  

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