Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) Certification Exam Syllabus

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It is recommended for all the candidates to refer the NCA objectives and sample questions provided in this preparation guide. The Nutanix Certified Associate certification is mainly targeted to the candidates who want to build their career in Associate 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 Associate exam.

Nutanix NCA Exam Summary:

Exam Name
 Nutanix Certified Associate
Exam Code NCA
Exam Price $99 USD
Duration 90 minutes
Number of Questions 50
Passing Score 3000/1000-6000
Recommended Training / Books Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Fundamentals (NHCF) v6.5
Schedule Exam Nutanix
Sample Questions Nutanix NCA Sample Questions
Recommended Practice Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) Practice Test

Nutanix Certified Associate Syllabus:

Section Objectives
Describe Lifecycle Management - Describe Life Cycle Management (LCM)
Knowledge:
  • Identify which updates are needed
  • Ensure there are no alerts
  • Describe LCM Inventory process
  • Differentiate LCM in Prism Central and Prism Element
  • Identify best practices for the LCM order of upgrades

- Monitor LCM software and firmware upgrades
Knowledge:

  • Explain the impact of placing nodes in maintenance mode
  • Discuss when to use basic Affinity VM rules
  • Differentiate basic upgradable components
Describe Nutanix Basic Administration - Describe how to perform basic VM tasks
Knowledge:
  • Explain how to perform a VM snapshot
  • Describe how to perform a VM migration to a different host
  • Summarize how to monitor VM resource usage
  • Compare methods for reviewing VM resource settings
  • Discuss basic Affinity policies

- Identify cluster-level settings
Knowledge:

  • Describe the implementation of security settings
  • List network settings within the cluster
  • Define Users and Roles
  • Recall Alerts and Notifications

- Determine cluster license level
Knowledge:

  • Verify if the cluster is licensed
  • Identify which level of license the cluster is using
  • Explain the cluster license process via the Support Portal
Maintain the Environmental Health of a Nutanix cluster environment - Perform and interpret a health check
Knowledge:
  • Describe Resiliency Status
  • Perform log collections
  • Perform NCC Checks
  • Determine the cluster status
  • Explain the difference in Metric and Entity Charts
  • Distinguish Alert Severity

- Administer alerts, events, and policies
Knowledge:

  • Verify Pulse Status
  • Describe the benefits of Pulse
  • Determine use cases for Custom Alert Policies

- Create a support ticket
Knowledge:

  • Describe how to create a support case
  • Identify the required documentation for support cases
  • Identify the various documentation types
Describe Cluster Configuration Options - Determine and describe redundancy/replication factors
Knowledge:
  • Distinguish how many copies of metadata and data are on the cluster
  • Identify failure domains
  • Recognize container options (e.g. RF1, RF2, RF3)
  • Explain cluster size

- Identify storage components
Knowledge:

  • Recall storage options
  • Identify the different disk types

- Identify storage optimization
Knowledge:

  • Determine when to use compression, deduplication, erasure coding
  • Define data locality
  • Describe storage tiering

- Identify the supported hypervisors
Knowledge:

  • Differentiate types of supported hypervisors
  • Identify implications of intermixing hypervisors within the same cluster
  • Describe Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

- Identify basic AHV networking
Knowledge:

  • List different bond types and their use cases
  • Identify failure response depending on the bond type
  • Differentiate between managed and unmanaged networks

- Determine use cases for Nutanix products and services
Knowledge:

  • Describe hardware options
  • Differentiate add-on components
  • Demonstrate understanding of Disaster Recovery
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