Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) Certification Exam Syllabus

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It is recommended for all the candidates to refer the NCA objectives and sample questions provided in this preparation guide. The Nutanix Certified Associate certification is mainly targeted to the candidates who want to build their career in Associate Level domain and demonstrate their expertise. We suggest you to use practice exam listed in this cert guide to get used to with exam environment and identify the knowledge areas where you need more work prior to taking the actual Nutanix Certified Associate exam.

Nutanix NCA Exam Summary:

Exam Name
 Nutanix Certified Associate
Exam Code NCA
Exam Price $100 USD
Duration 90 minutes
Number of Questions 50
Passing Score 3000 on a scale of 1000-6000
Recommended Training / Books Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Fundamentals (NHCF)
Schedule Exam Nutanix
Sample Questions Nutanix NCA Sample Questions
Recommended Practice Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) Practice Test

Nutanix Certified Associate Syllabus:

Section Objectives

Recognize Nutanix Solutions and Tools
Recognize Nutanix solutions, use cases, and features of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) technologies
 - Knowledge
  • Identify supported hypervisors for NCI
  • Describe the core components included in NCI
  • Identify core component-related configurations
  • Identify common deployment scenarios of NCI
  • Align an NCI component with its use case
Recognize Nutanix solutions, use cases, and features of non Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) technologies - Knowledge
  • Identify Nutanix Unified Storage use cases and features
  • Identify Nutanix Database Automation use cases and features
  • Identify Nutanix Cloud Manager use cases and features
  • Identify Nutanix Kubernetes Platform use cases and features
  • Identify Nutanix Enterprise AI use cases and features
  • Identify End-User Computing use cases and features
Recognize the use cases and features of Nutanix tools
Knowledge
  • Identify Move use cases and features
  • Identify NGT use cases and features
  • Identify Foundation/Foundation Central use cases and features
  • Identify Witness Service/VM use cases and features
  • Identify Self-Service Restore use cases and features
  • Identify X-Ray use cases and features
  • Identify Collector use cases and features

Describe Nutanix Platform Administration
Describe VM tasks - Knowledge
  • Deploy, update, and configure a VM
  • Configure storage for VMs
  • Configure network attributes
  • Assign categories
  • Change vDisk Placement
  • Take a snapshot
Identify virtual networking tasks - Knowledge
  • Create subnet
  • Identify types of networking
  • Create vSwitch
  • Describe network visualizer
  • Monitor physical switches
Discuss storage operations
 - Knowledge
  • Identify storage optimizations
  • Identify redundancy requirements
  • Identify the different storage types
Describe licensing tasks
Knowledge
  • Identify current license state
  • Assign, reclaim, and unassign licenses
  • Inspect available licenses
  • Verify licensing expiration
  • Identify correct license by use case

Describe Cluster Configuration and Maintenance
Describe valid cluster options - Knowledge
  • Verify DNS, SMTP, SNMP, and/or NTP configurations
  • Discuss the cluster fault tolerance levels
  • Validate Prism Central settings
  • Identify security options
Identify hardware maintenance tasks

- Knowledge

  • Place a node into or out of maintenance mode
  • Identify the node types for expansion
  • Identify expansion capabilities within a node
  • Identify use cases for OOB management
Identify software maintenance tasks

- Knowledge

  • Describe the process for performing an upgrade
  • Perform LCM inventory
  • Differentiate between dark sites and non-dark sites
  • Describe software compatibility matrix
  • Identify common software maintenance tasks

Demonstrate and Understand of Platform Health and Monitoring
Perform and interpret a health check - Knowledge
  • Perform log collections
  • Perform NCC Checks
  • Determine the cluster status
  • Demonstrate understanding of the difference in Metric and Entity Charts
Review and interpret alerts and events - Knowledge
  • Verify Pulse Status
  • Describe the benefits of Pulse
  • Determine use cases for Custom Alert Policies
  • Distinguish Alert Severity
  • Given an alert, determine impact and plan a resolution
Leverage support functions
 - Knowledge
  • Describe how to create a support case
  • Identify the required documentation for support cases
  • Identify the various Documentation types
  • Leverage Insights for predictive health and support automation
Review and interpret workload performance - Knowledge
  • Based on Prism analytics/metrics, recognize potential oversubscription or contention issues, such as:
    - CPU contention
    - CPU ready
    - Memory constraints
    - I/O latency
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