Nutanix NCSE-Level-1 Actual Free Exam Questions & Community Discussion

  • Exam Code/Number: NCSE-Level-1
  • Exam Name/Title: Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer (NCSE): Level 1
  • Certification Provider: Nutanix
  • Corresponding Certification: Nutanix SE Academy
  • Exam Questions: 85
  • Updated On: May 29, 2026
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?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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)
Correct Answer: B,D Vote an answer
During an initial meeting with a prospect the storage administrator learns that Nutanix does not use RAID for application data. The prospect's storage array is configured with RAID 10 and the full capacity of the array is required. As a result no hot spares have been allocated. The storage administrator must respond immediately to any disk failures, even outside standard business hours.
Which aspect of Nutanix replication factor (RF) will reduce the storage administrator's break/fix burden?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
A customer needs to expand an existing cluster to accommodate workloads. The workloads require 5TB of storage capacity (1.2TB of working set data), 64GB of memory, and 10 physical CPU cores. Their current cluster is configured as follows:
* 4x NX-3060-G5 nodes
* Each node is configured with 2x E5-2620v4 processors (8 Cores each), 128GB RAM, 2x 960GB SSDs, and
4x 2TB HDDs
* The cluster is configured as RF2 and is sized for N+1 availability
* Each CVM is configured with 32GB of memory
To maintain optimal metadata balance and data availability, which configuration should be recommended?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
Refer to the exhibit.
Using the Sizing Options shown, which two configurations are valid when using Sizer in Automatic mode?(Choose two.)
Correct Answer: B,E Vote an answer
Refer to the exhibit.
***Exhibit is Missing***
Based on the sizing scenario, what level of resiliency can be inferred about the configuration?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
A prospects need to refresh their environment but has a very small budget for the project. Four years after their last infrastructure refresh, the prospect's datacenter is only running at 40% utilization. In addition, they have
25 satellite offices. Each office has a requirement to run 4 to 6 VM's locally.
Which two Nutanix platform capabilities should the SE highlight to address the prospect's concerns? (Choose two)
Correct Answer: A,E Vote an answer
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.)
Correct Answer: D,E Vote an answer
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