Nutanix Multicloud Infrastructure (NCX-MCI) Certification Exam Syllabus

• Gather specific, measurable, traceable, and concise business, technical, functional, and non-functional requirements from the customer

- Risks

• Identify risks to solution success; and create a high-level impact analysis and/or risk mitigation plan

- Constraints

• Identify constraints that influence the solution and create a high-level impact analysis

- Assumptions

• Identify assumptions that influence the solution and create a high-level impact analysis

- Operational Readiness

• Complete a high-level organizational readiness assessment and make recommendations for training or organizational changes as required

- Migration & Transition

• Formulate a low-risk migration strategy and discuss a roll-back strategy

• Identify and explain options for scaling Nutanix solution including application layer. Demonstrate an understanding of relationships between scalability, performance, and resilience

- Resiliency

• Identify failure scenarios and domains and provide traceability to SLAs limited to infrastructure (SLAs, RTO, RPO)

- Performance

• Show how customer requirements have been met and demonstrate an understanding of performance/validation tools such as FIO, IOMeter, JetStress.
• Describe what can be tuned in the platform and when/when not to change default settings.

- Manageability & Control Plane Architecture

• Explain of how management components interact and minimize complexity.
• Describe the “business as usual” activities such as patching, upgrades, and configuration management

- Data Protection & Recoverability

• Explain how the solution’s data protection and recoverability was designed and validated at a high-level and how RPO/RTO requirements are met

- Logical Sizing and Capacity Planning

• Defend and validate that the design meets capacity requirements

- Compliance & Security

• Explain how compliance, security, and risk requirements were met; Identify and provide understanding of where industry-standard security and compliance frameworks such as PCI DSS, STIG, HIPAA, EUGDPR, ISO 27001 apply

- Virtual Machine Logical Design

• Provide explanation of virtual machine logical specifications, interoperability, and configuration

- Third Party Product Integration

• Provide explanation of how third-party integrations provide costeffective solutions that meet customer requirements

• Justify sizing rationale based on calculations and demonstrate how the application working set size was obtained

- Storage Infrastructure

• Explain impact and implications of protocols, IO sizes and patterns, and data transforms; Explain combined storage infrastructure design decisions

- Platform Selection

• Justify selection of components in a node and cluster configuration

- Networking Infrastructure

• Identify configuration options and explain how the chosen network topology meets customer requirements

- Virtual Machine Physical Design

• Identify necessary physical virtual machine components such as type of scsi adaptor and system network adaptor configuration

- Management Component Design

• Provide explanation and justification of management component configuration (e.g., patching, monitoring, updating, upgrading, sizing) such as automated patching, RHN satellite, spacewalk, PRISM Central, and Acropolis

- Data Center Infrastructure - Environmental & Power

• Provide specifications for space, power usage, heat output and show how the solution conforms to the resources available in the chosen location(s)