The Nutanix NCP-CN exam preparation guide is designed to provide candidates with necessary information about the Cloud Native 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 - Cloud Native (NCP-CN) exam.
It is recommended for all the candidates to refer the NCP-CN objectives and sample questions provided in this preparation guide. The Nutanix Cloud Native 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 - Cloud Native exam.
Nutanix NCP-CN Exam Summary:
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Exam Name
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Nutanix Certified Professional - Cloud Native |
| Exam Code | NCP-CN |
| Exam Price | $199 USD |
| Duration | 120 minutes |
| Number of Questions | 75 |
| Passing Score | 3000/1000-6000 |
| Recommended Training / Books | Nutanix Kubernetes Platform Administration (NKPA) |
| Schedule Exam | Nutanix |
| Sample Questions | Nutanix NCP-CN Sample Questions |
| Recommended Practice | Nutanix Certified Professional - Cloud Native (NCP-CN) Practice Test |
Nutanix Cloud Native Syllabus:
| Section | Objectives |
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Prepare the Environment for an NKP Deployment |
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| Seed a private registry |
Knowledge
- Identify the purpose for seeding a registry - Identify parameters for registry seeding command - Demonstrate understanding of the workflow for seeding a registry - Troubleshoot issues that arise during seeding the registry - Recognize the network requirements for a private registry |
| Create a bootstrap cluster |
Knowledge
- Identify the purpose for creating a bootstrap cluster - Identify parameters for creating a bootstrap cluster - Demonstrate understanding of the workflow for creating a bootstrap cluster - Troubleshoot issues that arise during the creation of a bootstrap cluster |
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Determine license tiers for clusters
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Knowledge
- Differentiate between the feature levels per license type - Align the use case with a license tier - Identify the process for obtaining a license |
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Prepare a bastion host
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Knowledge
- Identify the purpose of a bastion host
- Demonstrate understanding of the bastion host prerequisites and components - Recognize the network requirements for a bastion host |
| Build machine images or prepare nodes |
Knowledge
- Demonstrate understanding of the purpose and process for building machine images using the NIB CLI tool - Demonstrate understanding of the purpose and process for preparing nodes the KIB CLI tool - Recognize the prerequisites for building machine images - Recognize the minimum requirements for building machine images and preparing nodes - Determine how to customize the process of building images or preparing nodes - Demonstrate understanding of changes required to build an image in a Airgap environment |
| Gather information for building a cluster on a target provider |
Knowledge
- Identify parameters associated for building a cluster on a target provider
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Manage Building an NKP Cluster |
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| Customize and deploy clusters |
Knowledge
- Use NKP CLI to build and deploy a cluster - Given a use case, determine when and how to employ the various components of cluster API for customization - Determine steps to diagnose a cluster deployment issue
- Determine when and how to use a custom manifest for deploying clusters
- Analyze the NKP CLI parameters required for a specific cluster deployment use case
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| Customize and deploy Kommander and apply appropriate licenses |
Knowledge
- Use NKP CLI to build and deploy Kommander - Determine steps to diagnose a Kommander deployment issue - Determine when and how to use a custom manifest for deploying Kommander
- Analyze the NKP CLI parameters required for a specific Kommander deployment use case
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Perform Day 2 Operations |
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| Configure authentication and authorization |
Knowledge
- Configure identity provider and groups - Differentiate between Kommander roles and cluster roles - Configure custom roles and role bindings - Use tokens to authenticate users - Demonstrate understanding of environment contexts and role inheritance - Using RBAC authorization |
| Configure logging |
Knowledge
- Demonstrate understanding of logging stack - Enable logging stack applications - Configure and manage logging stack application - Manage logging in a multitenant environment - Gather logs - Integrate persisting data to Nutanix Unified Storage - Scale the logging stack |
| Configure cluster backup and recovery |
Knowledge
- Recognize dependencies for cluster backup and recovery - Determine target storage requirements for cluster backup - Configure Velero (e.g., schedule backups, enable) - Use Velero CLI to perform backups and restores - Configure storage/volume snapshot classes for backup Diagnose and address backup issues - Perform a cluster restore |
| Conduct performance and health monitoring |
Knowledge
- Demonstrate understanding of the monitoring stack
- Configure/enable monitoring stack
- Centralize monitoring in a multi-cluster environment - Customize service- and system-level metrics - Diagnose and address performance and health issues - Use custom dashboards - Configure monitoring alerts and endpoints - Configure backend storage for a monitoring application |
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Configure cluster autoscaling
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- Recognize the purpose and use cases for enabling and configuring cluster autoscaling
- Demonstrate how to enable and configure cluster autoscaling |
| Conduct lifecycle management functions |
Knowledge
- Upgrade clusters - Given a scenario, determine when and how to update cluster configurations - Manage node pools - Manually scale clusters - Use the NKP CLI to delete clusters |
Conduct NKP Fleet Management |
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| Configure workspaces |
Knowledge
- Given a use case, determine workload cluster workspace assignment - Recognize the purpose and use cases for a workspace - Configure infrastructure provider - Configure access control at workspace level - Deploy application to a workspace - Recognize the purpose and use case of Insights |
| Deploy workload clusters to a workspace |
Knowledge
- Recognize the impact of target provider environments on workload cluster deployments - Recognize the purpose and use cases for deploying workload clusters - Given a scenario, determine how to deploy workload clusters - Troubleshoot the deployment of a workload cluster |
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Attach clusters to a workspace
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- Recognize the purpose and use case for attaching clusters
- Given a scenario, determine how to attach a cluster - Recognize capabilities of attached clusters - Troubleshoot cluster attachments - Configure and update attached clusters |
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Detach or delete clusters from a workspace
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- Recognize the purpose and use case of decommissioning
- Use the Kommander dashboard to delete a cluster front the GUI - Troubleshoot a cluster detachment/deletion issue |
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Configure projects
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Knowledge
- Recognize the purpose and use cases for a project - Given a use case, determine workload cluster project assignments - Configure access control at the project level - Deploy applications at the project level - Configure CD deployment - Add clusters to a project - Federate resources |
| Configure platform applications |
Knowledge
- Recognize platform application dependencies - Customize a platform application deployment from the Kommander dashboard - Differentiate between global and cluster scope application configuration - Troubleshoot platform application configurations - Modify, disable, or enable platform application via CLI |