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Nutanix NCP-MCA Exam Syllabus

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Before starting your NCP-MCA exam preparation, it is recommended to review the complete Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation V6.10 exam syllabus and carefully go through the exam objectives listed below. Once you understand the exam structure and objectives, you should practice using our free NCP-MCA questions. We also provide premium NCP-MCA practice test, fully updated according to the latest exam objectives, to help you accurately assess your preparedness for the actual exam.

Nutanix NCP-MCA Exam Objectives

Section Objectives
Describe and Differentiate Automation Concepts and Principles Objective 1.1 – Determine and apply the steps required to automate a given manual process

Knowledge:
• Determine the logical steps in automating a process
• Determine how to use Calm to complete pre-provisioning step

Objective 1.2 – Demonstrate an understanding of event-driven Playbooks

Knowledge:
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to create a Playbook by setting a trigger and defining actions
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to correctly arrange Playbook steps using X-Plan

Objective 1.3 – Define the components of X-Play

Knowledge:
• Define Playbook’s action gallery and plays
• Identify alerts and manual triggers

Objective 1.4 – Demonstrate an understanding of Categories

Knowledge:
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to create Categories
• Explain the effects of Categories
• Given a Category and a blueprint, infer is a policy will be applied to a VM
Deploy and Configure Calm and Related Components Objective 2.1 – Create a blueprint to deploy infrastructure and applications using Calm

Knowledge:
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to create a Calm blueprint
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to create a substrate
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to create a task
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to configure install/uninstall packages
• Determine which task type to use per script language/function
• Demonstrate an understanding of prerequisites for Calm deployment
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to utilize Calm built-in macros within blueprints
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to set application infrastructure requirements related to automation optimization

Objective 2.2 – Demonstrate an understanding of Calm managed infrastructure and applications

Knowledge:
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to scale out
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to retire a managed application
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to manage an application
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to run a task

Objective 2.3 – Apply typical configuration settings to a Calm deployment

Knowledge:
• Describe how to configure providers
• Describe how to configure a project
• Define user permissions and roles
• Recall the requirements for setting up environments within Calm to deploy to various supported Clouds
• Define Marketplace capabilities

Objective 2.4 – Identify common blueprint features

Knowledge:
• Identify built-in macros, tasks, and action/task dependencies
• Identify blueprint features to include authentication credentials in a cloudinit and sysprep
• Identify endpoints
• Describe how to execute Calm Runbooks within blueprints
• Recognize the syntax of a macro

Objective 2.5 – Describe the features and requirements of Calm

Knowledge:
• Describe Calm requirements
• Define Calm use cases
• Define Calm
• Describe plugin use cases
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to execute deployment of MySQL, SQL, MariaDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and single/clustered databases
• Illustrate zero-byte clones and obfuscation for dev test scenarios

 
Validate Blueprints, Playbooks, and Automation Settings Objective 3.1 – Understand the typical causes of a blueprint deployment failure

Knowledge:
• Demonstrate an understanding of audit trails
• Given an error message, explain the cause of the issue

Objective 3.2 – Describe where to find information to assist in validation

Knowledge:
• Given an issue with Calm, locate troubleshooting data and collect the logs
• Given an issue with Playbooks, locate troubleshooting data and collect the logs

Objective 3.3 – Validate typical Playbook configurations

Knowledge:
• Interpret data/logs to determine the cause for a given issue
• Given a Playbook and symptom, explain a given issue


Objective 3.4 – Understand the typical causes of issues associated with automation

Knowledge:
• Given a scenario, interpret a given issue
• Given a log, infer what type of issue may be present
• Explain how to optimize a workflow to align with best practices
• Given a scenario, explain how to triage and narrow down the possible root causes of an issue
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