Nutanix Multicloud Infrastructure (NCM-MCI) Certification Exam Syllabus

• Utilize performance graphs to look for anomalies
• Correlate events with issues observed with metric or entity charts
• Given a scenario, create analysis graphs to diagnose a problem
• Utilize prism central to identify resource constraints

• Utilize prism to collect system logs capturing an event
• Proceed with the log gathering using CLI
• Review audit logs and troubleshoot cluster configuration issues.
• Given a problem description, utilize the NCC CLI to run the appropriate check(s)
• Use CLI commands to extract cluster configuration information

• Identify components impacted and conduct root cause analysis
• Given an issue, use the KB article to provide a resolution.
• Troubleshoot playbook errors

• Given a scenario select the correct entity and metrics to add to a graph
• Given a scenario create a custom alert when a threshold is passed
• Given a scenario, create reports to monitor workload inefficiencies. e.g. Latency
• Evaluate cluster performance using reports.

• Review and analyze current and potential resource needs through the planning dashboard
• Given a scenario provide a cluster rightsizing for a greenfield deployment
• Given a scenario plan for a future cluster expansion

• Locate, read, and understand workload specific BPG and Technotes
• Identify the preferred values for a workload based upon a supplied BPG
• Configure appropriate settings for a given EUC workload (e.g. vGPU, container, etc.)
• Identify VM settings for optimal performance according to SQL Server BPG
• Identify optimal settings for VM and Storage Container for a given scenario

• Manage cluster at scale conducting CRUD operations using APIs
• Conduct API-based information gathering and export
• Utilize Playbook for making a call to a REST API endpoint

• Configure cluster policies and features to meet minimum requirements for availability and resiliency (U/A)
• Configure cluster resiliency to meet application requirements
• Use “Rebuild Capacity Reservation” to enhance the cluster's self-healing mechanism
• Set Cluster Resiliency Preference for a failure event vs planned outage

• Given a scenario configure advanced VM settings
• Adjust VM configuration to meet high-intensity workload requirements
• Evaluate optimal storage configuration for a business-critical application
• Use X-Play to monitor and optimize VM performance

• Configure SCMA and AIDE as determined by security requirements
• Implement hardening mechanisms from the Nutanix security guide based upon customer scenario
• Given a scenario create an appropriate RBAC structure to meet requirements
• Configure cluster lockdown mode
• Given a scenario configure network segmentation for a cluster
• Manage accounts and passwords (e.g., system, service)

- Knowledge

• Protect a multi-tiered application using Flow Security Policies.
• Apply Security policies based on provided requirements

- Knowledge

• Given a set of parameters, configure a remote SYSLOG server
• Given a scenario, export logs for a specific service at a desired severity to a SYSLOG server
• Identify why SYSLOG messages are not being sent to a configured server

• Replace self-signed certificates with customer’s CA signed
• Given a scenario select the proper IAM authentication methods (AD, SAML, Local) and conduct configuration steps required
• Given a scenario create a custom role with required permissions
• Manage accounts and passwords according to provided requirements

• Configure Data-at-Rest Encryption
• Configure Data-in-Transit Encryption
• Encrypt the storage of specific VMs within the environment

• Identify the need for an RF1 container and apply the correct configuration
• Identify the need for Load-Balanced Volume Groups, configure them, and enable the feature for the VM/VG(s) required
• Given a workload, ensure that the appropriate storage efficiency settings are enabled

• Implement VPCs, gateways, Load Balancers, Floating IPs, and overlay networks
• Determine the appropriate networking to build out the design
• Extend subnets to another availability zone

• Validate the CVM and Hypervisor VLAN configurations
• For a given workload type, validate CVM resource configurations
• For a given workload type, validate CPU oversubscription ratio
• For a given scenario, validate cluster high availability configuration.

• Configure cluster resiliency to meet workload requirements
• Use Data Resiliency settings to enhance the cluster's self-healing mechanism (e.g., Maintenance Resiliency, VM High Availability, Rebuild Capacity Reservation)

• Given a scenario configure advanced VM settings
• Adjust VM configuration to meet high-intensity workload requirements
• Evaluate optimal storage configuration for a business-critical application (e.g., vDisks, volumes, policies)

• Given a scenario, configure an appropriate protection mechanism for a specific group of multi tiered application respecting mission critical RPO/RTO requirement
• Given a scenario, troubleshoot a given Protection Policy/Protection Domain for specific multi-tieredapplication and update it respecting mission critical RPO/RTO requirements
• Troubleshoot protection policy with automatic assignment of target clusters.

1. Given a scenario create a recovery plan for a 3-tiered application
2. Create a recovery plan which uses a custom script for application reconfiguration
3. Create recovery plans and modify recovery sequence based on application requirements
4. Create/modify recovery plans incl. network and IP mapping based on specific requirements

• Given a scenario where a recovery plan fails, troubleshoot and resolve the issue
• Given a scenario, identify and resolve AHV Metro, sync rep, async, and/or NearSync configuration issues