The Nutanix NCP-EUC exam preparation guide is designed to provide candidates with necessary information about the End User Computing exam. It includes exam summary, sample questions, practice test, objectives and ways to interpret the exam objectives to enable candidates to assess the types of questions-answers that may be asked during the Nutanix Certified Professional - End User Computing (NCP-EUC) exam.
It is recommended for all the candidates to refer the NCP-EUC objectives and sample questions provided in this preparation guide. The Nutanix End User Computing certification is mainly targeted to the candidates who want to build their career in Professional 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 Professional - End User Computing exam.
Nutanix NCP-EUC Exam Summary:
Nutanix End User Computing Syllabus:
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Section |
Objectives |
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Deploy an End User Computing Environment |
- Allocate desktops or published apps to users
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Describe the process to assign desktops to users
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Determine the resources required to publish desktops to knowledge workers
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Determine provisioning methodology for desktop deployment
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Determine requirements necessary to publish desktops and apps
- Determine the optimal Nutanix configuration
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Identify proper storage container configurations based on workload type
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Given a scenario, estimate load and workload sizing
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Optimize cluster performance to adhere to business requirements and maximize total cost of ownership (TCO)
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Given a scenario, identify when to use Nutanix core components
- Files
- Smart DR
- Shadow clones
- Intelligent Operations
- Flow (network microsegmentation)
- Manage and understand policies and Group Policy Objects
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Distinguish when to use GPO, local policy, or vendor policy in an environment
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Explain how policies affect workload types
- Configuring session timeouts, disconnect timeouts, and app lockdown
- Manage the broker architecture
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Given a scenario, discuss the functions of the brokers
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Given business requirements, identify the location of the brokers
- Manage image catalogs
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Given a scenario, identify the process to update image catalogs
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Given a scenario, update system requirements for a given catalog
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Given a scenario, update machine catalog
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Given a scenario, build a gold image
- Persistent vs non-persistent
- Desktop vs server OS
- Provisioning methodology
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Given a scenario/use case, explain application layering impact(s)
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Explain the positive and negative impacts of optimizing gold images
- Determine how to secure the environment
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Given a scenario, determine the steps to increase security
- SSL certificates
- Cluster lockdown
- Security Configuration Management Automation (SCMA) framework
- VLAN-based, data driven segmentation
- Data-at-rest (DAR) encryption
- Hardening AHV
- Hardening Controller VM
- Secure boot (vTPM)
- Nutanix Files hardening
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Given a scenario, implement RBAC configuration
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Monitor an End User Computing Environment |
- Monitor infrastructure Health
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Describe possible causes and remediation for alerts/events
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Describe possible causes of desktop connectivity failures
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Describe possible causes for logon performance issues
- Create and analyze reports
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Demonstrate the ability to create and export reports
- Performance
- Capacity
- Usage
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Describe potential components for report generation
- Storage containers
- Nodes
- VMs
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Interpret generated reports
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Manage EUC Workloads |
- Deploy and manage workloads
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Given a business requirement, identify the necessary workload type
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Given a scenario, illustrate appropriate provisioning
- Steps
- Methodology
- Nutanix best practices (optimizing workloads)
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Given a scenario, explain Citrix AHV plugins, what they do, and the requirements of each
- Perform upgrades, updates, and migrations
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Describe the steps involved in updating desktop (standard/graphical) groups
- Patching (upgrading OS or applications)
- Adding additional applications
- Drivers and agents
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Summarize recommended order for end-to-end upgrade of infrastructure
- Configure EUC storage
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Define possible options for storage
- Containers
- Policies
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Identify the steps required when configuring storage
- Evaluate DR options within the environment
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Given a scenario, determine recommended DR for a highly available profile solution
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Given a business requirement, differentiate between the available options for DR
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In the event of a failure, determine how to recover based on the configuration
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Troubleshoot an EUC Environment |
- Analyze the performance of EUC workloads
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Given a scenario, determine the best method of troubleshooting performance
- Analyze performance via Prism Element
- Analyze performance via Prism Central
- Performance analysis on the workloads directly
- Capturing performance of the network
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Given a scenario, assess whether a workload meets performance requirements
- User profiles
- Desktop and applications
- Storage
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Given a scenario, explain Nutanix cluster settings necessary to optimize performance
- Storage optimization
- Hot Tier pinning
- Resource allocation
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Given a scenario, assess whether workloads are correctly sized
- Appropriate CPU allocation
- Correct memory sizing
- OS optimization
- GPU profile
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Evaluate the source of workload performance issues
- Cluster CPU, storage, memory utilization
- Workload CPU, storage, memory utilization
- Network
- Client connectivity
- Troubleshoot network configuration
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Troubleshoot network traffic segmentation
- Storage traffic
- Workload traffic
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Troubleshoot bandwidth issues with existing workloads
- Add network switches/bridges/interfaces
- Implement LACP
- Bandwidth limits
- Resolve desktop deployment/registration failures
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Given a scenario, determine the cause of deployment failure
- Networking issue
- Authentication issues
- Storage
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Given a scenario, determine the cause of registration failure
- Networking issue
- Agent configuration
- Software misconfiguration
- Troubleshoot GPU-enabled desktops
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Given a scenario, identify reasons why a GPU-enabled workload would not have GPU capabilities
- Client drivers
- Host drivers
- Misconfigured template VM
- NVIDIA Licensing
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Evaluate the impact of GPU assigned workloads on Nutanix clusters
- Mixed node types
- Maintenance activities
- GPU profiles
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Given a scenario, explain how to troubleshoot GPU performance issues
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