NCSR-LEVEL-3 Online Practice Questions and Answers

What should you highlight regarding the 2018 Gartner HCI Magic Quadrant?

A. Nutanix systems are allflash platforms, which carries a premium price compared to the highcapacity hybrid solutions of other HCI competitors

B. Nutanix provides a 510% ROI over 5 years and 98% less downtime

C. Nutanix success is built on the sheer size of Windows Serves installed base, where even a small addressable market adoption represents significant success in the HCI onpremises market

D. Nutanix is the leader. It has proven user acceptance and high customer satisfaction, which results in repeat sales and high node counts (100+) in large global enterprise accounts

Consider the Arizona State University (ASU) story in which they reaped the benefits of a Nutanix

enterprise cloud platform.

What are 2 valueadds that ASU realized after deploying Nutanix Enterprise Cloud? (Choose 2)

A. The ability to run multiple hypervisors in their production environment

B. The freedom to deploy Nutanix software on their already existing Cisco UCS server

C. Reduced footprint from 4 racks to 1

D. Reduction in OpEx by 24x

E. Significant reduction in downtime

Why should you include IDC report in a customer proposal?

A. To highlight Nutanix history as a company

B. To include positive customer experiences after implementing Nutanix

C. To highlight IDC as a wellknown and welltrusted company

D. To showcase effective reference architectures and the value of good POCs

A financial firm leverages Nutanix for VDI. The firm needs a highperformance computing solution to help process and analyze the large amount of data the firm receives daily.

Which solution should you recommend to meet this requirement?

A. Splunk on Nutanix

B. Cisco UCS on Nutanix software

C. Commvault for backup at primary and DR sites

D. IBM Power on Nutanix

An IT decision maker often gets locked into buying 2 or 3 years cloud "packages" upfront to takeadvantage of better discounts. Which customer benefits does this most model conflict?

A. Scale quickly

B. Freedom of choice

C. Fractional consumption

D. Simple to manage

An application owner of a regional financial institution receives reports of slow response times from customers who use their online banking system. This slow response times are affecting customer experience.

Which business value should you highlight with the application owner?

A. Increase application performance

B. Provides fractional consumption

C. Delivers faster time to value

D. Offers freedom of choice

A prospect who just bought new UCS servers needs a storage refresh and is interested in Nutanix. How should you proceed?

A. Uncover when the servers will be up for refresh

B. Discuss the ability of Nutanix to backup to AWS

C. Discuss the ability of Nutanix to add storageonly nodes

D. Determine if the servers fall on the Nutanix compatibility matrix

A system administrator is updating 3tier environment with 3 hardware vendors. Each update must be compatible with the next. The system administrator is consideringNutanix as an alternative architecture as a standard for future projects.

Which advantage will the Nutanix solution provide to help the system administrator in this situation?

A. Consolidation of the high cost of support

B. Single update point with an HCI product

C. Quick response to the business unit

D. Ability to upgrade a SAN through single GUI

A customer is releasing an RFP for their DR site. You want Nutanix NearSync to be a requirement. Which requirement should be included in the RFP to support this goal?

A. Must have 1min RPO capability

B. Must have snapshots capability

C. Must have fibre connectivity between sites

D. Must have compression enabled by deault

The customer is not convinced that the hosted POC addressed all of their concerns. What should you offer to the customer rather than an onsite POC to overcome this lastminute objection?

A. Nutanix customer reference

B. Community Edition

C. Try and Buy

D. More discount

What is the primary concern of a typical system administrator?

A. Employee headcount

B. Shadow IT

C. Complex Management

D. Salary

A customer is releasing an RFP for their DR site. Youwant Nutanix NearSync to be arequirement. Which requirement should be included in the RFP to support this goal?

A. Must have 1min RPO capability

B. Must have snapshots capability

C. Must have fibre connectivity between sites

D. Must have compression enabled by deault

An internet analytics company spend $20 million a year on AWS. You havean opportunity to capturesome of that spend. Which question should you ask to determine what kind of Nutanix opportunityexists with this client?

A. How much do they send on their inhouse storage environment?

B. How many IT professional do they employ?

C. Which predictable workloads are residing in AWS?

D. Which elastic workloads resides in AWS?

A regional retail company plans to open 50 additional stores during the next 2 years. The company hires a services organization to install satellite locations. However the company has limited staff to manage these additional locations.

With whom should you conduct an ease of management value proposition discussion at this retail company?

A. CIO

B. IT Manager

C. Store Manager

D. Application Owner

A large insurance company's plan to prevent a data breach are completely outdated. A breach would cost the company millions to retify, incur compliance, fines, and erode their public image.

With whom should you have this business discussion?

A. IT Director

B. Security Manager

C. Application Owner

D. Chief Information Security Officer