Nutanix NCP-MCA Exam Questions

Questions for the NCP-MCA were updated on : Nov 16 ,2024

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Question 1

In order to give Consumers the ability to modify attributes, what should the Blueprint creator
implement in the design?

  • A. Custom actions
  • B. eScript task with custom macros
  • C. Runtime variables
  • D. HTTP task with built-in macros
Answer:

C

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Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Calm-Admin-Operations-Guide-v3_2_7:nuc-nucalm-blueprint-management-c.html

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Question 2

Refer to the exhibit.

The Playbook is designed to execute a script, in order to fix a known problem in the application.
However, it keeps failing.
Why is this Playbook continuing to fail?

  • A. Slack configuration should be reviewed.
  • B. The script is incorrect.
  • C. The Playbook actions are in the wrong order.
  • D. Not enough storage space in order to take a snapshot.
Answer:

C

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Question 3

Which action should an administrator use to request a static IP address from an IPAM solution?

  • A. Profile
  • B. Pre-create
  • C. Guest Customization
  • D. Create
Answer:

D

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Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Objects-v3_2:v32-network-config-ahv-r.html

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Question 4

Refer to the exhibit.

What needs to be done in order to enable the developer to complete this requested task? (Choose
two.)

  • A. Create AWS and Azure Providers
  • B. Add the Providers to the Project
  • C. Enable Environment for AWS and Azure
  • D. Upgrade Calm to version 3.2.x
Answer:

B

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Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Calm-Admin-
Operations-Guide-v3_3_0:Projects%20and%20Environments

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Question 5

A company is new to automation and has infrastructure they would like to automate with Calm to
provide standardized automation. The company also wants to create a Hybrid Cloud environment
with their existing infrastructure which includes AHV, Azure, AWS, and a small legacy vSphere
environment.
In which two locations can Calm be deployed? (Choose two.)

  • A. vSphere Essential Edition
  • B. VMware ESXi
  • C. Nutanix AHV
  • D. Any Public Cloud
Answer:

B, C

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Explanation:
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https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details?targetId=RA-2093-Nutanix-Calm:top-nutanix-calm-overview.html

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Question 6

An administrator wants to be alerted when production VMs become idle. The VMs will be
determined to be idle when CPU usage is lower than 5% for more than 5 minutes. All affected VMs
are categorized as Environment:Production, since they have Flow microsegmentation rules.
What should the administrator do to satisfy this requirement?

  • A. Create an alert for all VMs, create a Playbook with this alert as the trigger and send an email as the action.
  • B. Create an alert for VMs in the correct category, create a Playbook with this alert as the trigger > take a snapshot > send an email as the action.
  • C. Create an alert for all VMs, create a Playbook with this alert as the trigger > reduce 1 CPU > send an email as the action.
  • D. Create an alert for VMs in the correct category, create a Playbook with this alert as the trigger and send an email as the action.
Answer:

A

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Explanation:
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https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-Central-Guide-Prism-v6_0:mul-playbooks-create-alerts-matching-criteria-pc-t.html

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Question 7

A developer has a Development Blueprint that performs the following high level items:
Creates a Windows and Ubuntu Server.
Installs IIS on Windows
Installs MySQL on Ubuntu
As part of Development, there is a need for an Operator to restart IIS Services for troubleshooting
purposes.
How should the developer add this functionality to the Blueprint?

  • A. Add an Execute Task in the Restart Action of the Application Profile.
  • B. Add an Execute Task in the Restart Action of the Windows/IIS Service.
  • C. Add a Delay Task in the Restart Action of the Windows/IIS Service.
  • D. Create an Endpoint for the IIS server and a Runbook that restarts the service.
Answer:

A

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Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details?targetId=RA-2093-
Nutanix-Calm:RA-2093-Nutanix-Calm

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Question 8

An administrator receives the following error while running a script through Calm on VM:

Which two conditions could cause this issue? (Choose two.)

  • A. The VM port is not allowed by the firewall.
  • B. The credentials have insufficient permissions.
  • C. The VM is still in the boot process.
  • D. There is an error in the script.
Answer:

A, C

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Explanation:
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https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Calm-Admin-Operations-Guide-v3_3_0:nuc-app-mgmt-troubleshoot-gokaran-errors-t.html

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Question 9

When creating a blueprint, which Pre-create and Post-delete tasks are valid?

  • A. Create, Start, Stop, Delete
  • B. Execute, Set variable, HTTP, Delay
  • C. Create, Start, Stop, Soft Delete
  • D. Execute, Set variable, API, Delay
Answer:

B

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https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Calm-Admin-Operations-Guide-v3_2_7:nuc-pre-create-task-overview-c.html

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Question 10

Which two groups of operations can a Prism Admin or Super Admin role perform? (Choose two.)

  • A. Create, read, automate, or delete an action template in the action gallery
  • B. Create, read, update, or delete an action template in the action gallery
  • C. Create, read, automate, delete, enable, and run playbooks
  • D. Create, read, update, delete, enable, and run playbooks
Answer:

B, D

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Explanation:
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https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Security-Guide-v5_16:wc-user-management-using-pe-topichead.html

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Question 11

A blueprint was developed for deploying a standard 3-tier hosting environment for a company's
applications. The blueprint includes a load balancer, multiple web servers, a database server, and a
small test application.
During testing of the blueprint, the application fails to connect to the database. The cause is found to
be the database software is still installing when the application starts.
Which method most efficiently prevents the application from starting before the database?

  • A. Use a local install instead of downloading
  • B. Create a loop to retry connection
  • C. Create a service dependency
  • D. Use a sleep statement in a start script
Answer:

C

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Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Calm-Admin-
Operations-Guide-v3_2_7:Nutanix-Calm-Admin-Operations-Guide-v3_2_7

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Question 12

Which Prism Central setting must first be configured in order to add users to a Project?

  • A. HTTP Proxy
  • B. Authentication Directory
  • C. Pulse
  • D. Local User Role Mapping
Answer:

A

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https://download.nutanix.com/documentation/v60/Prism-Central-Guide-Prism-v6_0.pdf

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Question 13

A customer is trying to deploy an application with Calm and receives this error for a Linux VM:

What is the cause of this error within the blueprint?

  • A. Connection section has a network adapter selected for the Address box in Connection section.
  • B. Connection section has no network adapters selected for the Address box in Connection section.
  • C. Connection Type has a protocol selected.
  • D. Connection Type has no protocol selected.
Answer:

D

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Question 14

Which method will result in unique names per VM when scaling out a Service in a Calm Blueprint?
A.
Guest
OS
customization
using
sysprep
contains
<ComputerName>@@{name}@@</ComputerName>.
B. Service VM Name field contains the macro variable @@{calm_array_index}@@.
C. Call an external Python eScript that uses an IPAM API to register the VM name in DNS.
D. Set the VM Name field to allow user edits at launch so the user can enter a custom value at
launch.

Answer:

B

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Question 15

Which two providers are supported in Calm? (Choose two.)

  • A. Oracle Cloud
  • B. Kubernetes
  • C. GCP
  • D. IBM Cloud
Answer:

B, C

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