The Nutanix NCP-MCI exam preparation guide is designed to provide candidates with necessary information about the Multicloud Infrastructure 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 - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) exam.
It is recommended for all the candidates to refer the NCP-MCI objectives and sample questions provided in this preparation guide. The Nutanix Multicloud Infrastructure 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 - Multicloud Infrastructure exam.
Nutanix NCP-MCI Exam Summary:
Nutanix Multicloud Infrastructure Syllabus:
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Section |
Objectives |
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Manage Cluster, Nodes, and Features |
- Perform initial cluster configuration tasks
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Run NCC Health Checks
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Determine the use for an external IP address
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Differentiate between an external IP address and a data services IP
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Install licenses in standard and dark data centers
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Determine how to create a cluster summary file
- Manage supporting infrastructure tasks
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Configure NTP, SMTP, and DNS services
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Configure directory services, such as Active Directory and LDAP
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Install SSL certificates
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Configure authentication and password management
- Upgrade the platform using Life Cycle Manager (LCM)
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Perform inventory in standard and dark data centers
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Determine the update order
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Differentiate software and firmware update processes
- Maintain a Nutanix cluster
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Upgrade cluster licenses
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Perform cluster maintenance tasks:
- Start/Stop a cluster
- Validate cluster status
- Add/Remove a node
- Manage maintenance mode
- Secure a cluster
- Perform a cluster health check using the GUI and CLI
- Configure redundancy and replication factors
- Differentiate the fault tolerance levels regarding block and rack awareness
- Summarize the node boot process
- Manage user roles and permissions
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Configure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in Prism Central and Prism Element
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Create local users
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Manage Cluster Storage |
- Describe Nutanix storage concepts
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Recall storage architectures
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Create and modify storage containers
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Identify storage resiliency options
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Describe replication factor options
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Describe volume groups
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Explain storage policies on containers
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Describe data encryption features and requirements
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Describe data path redundancy
- Configure Nutanix storage optimization features
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Determine when to use advanced storage optimization settings:
- Compression
- Deduplication
- Erasure Coding
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Differentiate post-process compression and inline compression
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Evaluate the number of nodes required for erasure coding at various replication factor levels
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Determine storage container sizing
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Configure Cluster Networking and Network Security |
- Deploy and configure networking
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Create managed and unmanaged networks
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Create and configure networking bridges
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Determine proper networking configuration options, such as LLDP, CDP, SNMP, etc.
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Determine proper switch properties, such as the MTU and packet transfer rate
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Determine VM network traffic statistics
- Describe Nutanix networking concepts
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Segment management networks
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Explain extended subnets in overlay networks
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Describe how internal networking facilitates I/O performance
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Describe load balancing modes
- Given a scenario, troubleshoot basic cluster networking
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Use EthTool to gather information
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Manage host-side networking
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Investigate switch properties
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Manage OVS commands to display switch status
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Investigate Application-specific performance issues
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Analyze and Remediate Performance Issues |
- Determine how to use reporting tools
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Customize widgets
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Build dashboards
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Generate output
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Locate data
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Determine where storage stats are located
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Create customized reports
- Given a scenario, determine which metrics and entities are relevant
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Determine which types of charts to use for given scenarios
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Determine which node is generating high resource consumption
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Determine which values to analyze, such as IOPS, latency, throughput, etc.
- Given a scenario, interpret anomaly detection events
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Determine how anomaly detection operates
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Compare anomaly detection to a manual base line
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Determine behavioral anomaly events
- Determine how to resolve a performance issue
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Add RAM or CPU to a VM
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Add a node to a cluster
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Review storage optimization features
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Recognize Data Protection performance issues
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Recognize if an issue is external or internal
- Identify VM inefficiencies
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Identify bully VMs
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Identify over-provisioned and under-provisioned VMs
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Identify inactive VMs
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Configure, Analyze, and Remediate Alerts and Events |
- Configure Remote Syslog Server settings
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Enable Remote Syslog Server settings in the GUI and CLI
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Configure Syslog options in the GUI and CLI
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Determine use cases for enabling Remote Syslog
- Identify common Nutanix services
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Describe the role of critical services:
- Cassandra
- Curator
- Genesis
- Pithos
- Prism
- Stargate
- ZooKeeper
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Collect logs for critical services in the GUI and CLI
- Configure Nutanix alert policies
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Configure alert emails
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Stop alerts during a maintenance window
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Manage alert policies
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Manage VM Deployment and Configuration |
- Create, modify, and optimize VMs and their components
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Create VMs
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Customize VMs
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Configure hot plug devices
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Configure virtual hardware settings
- Manage the image service
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Utilize templates to deploy VMs
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Upload images
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Configure image placement policies
- Describe VM storage policies
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Configure storage policy options
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Apply a storage policy to a VM
- Manage VM placement options
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Describe GPU VMs
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Describe VM live migration
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Describe Affinity policies
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Differentiate Affinity and Anti-affinity policies
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Explain High Availability
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Explain Capacity Reservation
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