Nutanix NCP-MCA Exam Practice Test Instant Access

Question 1

In which two ways can Calm be deployed? (Choose two.)

AEnabled inside of Prism Element

BDeployed as a VM on ESXi

CDeployed as a VM on Hyper-V

DDeployed as a VM on AHV

Answer : B, D

Calm can be deployed as a VM on ESXi or AHV hypervisors and leverage calm functionality without the Nutanix infrastructure. Calm can also be enabled inside of Prism Central, which is a VM that can run on any Nutanix supported hypervisor, including ESXi and AHV. However, Calm cannot be enabled inside of Prism Element, which is the management interface for each Nutanix cluster. Calm also cannot be deployed as a VM on Hyper-V, as this is not a supported hypervisor for Calm.Reference:Nutanix Calm Configuration and Training,Calm on ESXi Deployment | Nutanix Community,Nutanix Support & Insights

Question 2

A new Blueprint has been created for the Marketing Department and published to the Marketplace but is not visible to the Marketing Project Developers/Consumers.

What needs to be done to allow the Marketing Project to consume to the Marketplace Blueprint?

AThe Blueprint needs to have the Published Category applied in the Marketplace Item.

BThe Blueprint needs to have e higher version number than previous Blueprints.

CThe Blueprint needs to be Approved and Published with the Marketing Project.

DThe Blueprint needs to have the Marketing Category assigned in the Marketplace Item.

Answer : C

To make a Blueprint visible to a specific Project, it needs to be approved and published with that Project. This ensures that only authorized Blueprints are available for consumption by the Project members. Applying a Category or a version number to the Blueprint does not affect its visibility to the Project.Reference:Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA) Exam Blueprint Guide, page 14, section 3.1.2

Question 3

An administrator needs to restore a snapshot from a VM running in AWS that was created with a single VM blueprint Within.

which Calm tab should the administrator perform this task?

AManage

BSnapshots

CRecovery

Answer : B

According to the Nutanix Calm documentation1, the Snapshots tab allows the administrator to view, create, and restore snapshots of the VMs that are part of a blueprint.The Manage tab only shows the status and actions of the blueprint, and the Recovery tab is used for disaster recovery operations2.Reference:

1Nutanix Calm: Introducing Snapshot and Restore Actions3

2Nutanix Calm User Guide: Blueprint Operations

Question 4

An administrator needs to deploy blueprints to Calm SaaS and begin executing them, Before the administrator can execute a blueprint, what must be configured in the environment where the blueprint will be deployed?

Avpc

BSite-to-Site VPN Tunnel

CVPN Client

DTunnel Entity

Answer : B

To deploy blueprints to Calm SaaS and execute them, the administrator must first configure a site-to-site VPN tunnel and a tunnel entity in the environment where the blueprint will be deployed. A site-to-site VPN tunnel is a secure connection between two networks over the internet that allows Calm SaaS to communicate with the on-premises or cloud environment. A tunnel entity is a logical representation of the VPN tunnel in Calm SaaS that contains the tunnel configuration and credentials. The administrator must also register the environment and the provider accounts in Calm SaaS before deploying the blueprints.Reference:Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA) Exam Blueprint Guide, page 9; Nutanix Calm SaaS User Guide, section 3.1.1 and 3.1.2.

Question 5

An administrator is tasked with setting up a Policy Engine for a Calm VM.

What information does the administrator require to complete this task?

APublic key of the Calm VM. For the Scale-Out Calm VIVI, provide the public key of all VMs,

BPrivate Key of the Calm VX'L For the Scale-Out Calm VMU provide the private key of all VMs.

CEvery Prism Central Virtual IP address to be managed by the policy engine for Calm.

DNetworking information for all devices to be managed by the policy engine for Calm.

Answer : D

The policy engine is a single VM setup for the single or scale-out Prism Central. When you enable the policy engine for your Calm instance, a new VM is created and deployed for the policy engine. All you need is an available IP address that belongs to the same network as that of your Prism Central VM for the policy engine VM. You do not need to provide any public or private keys, or any Prism Central virtual IP addresses for this task.Reference:Nutanix Support & Insights,Calm on ESXi Deployment | Nutanix Community

Question 6

An administrator is trying to deploy a VM from an image onto a newly-built cluster, but the image is unavailable. The administrator is able to deploy the image onto other clusters with no issue. Image placement policies have already been created within Prism Central.

Why is the image unavailable for deployment on the cluster?

AThe cluster does not have the proper category assigned for the placement policy,

BThe image is corrupted.

CThe image does not have the proper category assigned for the placement policy,

DThe image has not been directly uploaded to the cluster

Answer : A, C

The image is unavailable for deployment on the cluster because the cluster and the image do not have the proper categories assigned for the placement policy. A placement policy is a set of rules that determines which clusters and images are available for VM deployment based on the categories and values assigned to them. If the cluster and the image do not match the placement policy criteria, they will not be shown as options for VM deployment. Therefore, the administrator needs to assign the appropriate categories and values to the cluster and the image to make them compatible with the placement policy.Reference:Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA) Exam Blueprint Guide, page 12;Nutanix NCP-MCA Questions, question 111.

Question 7

An administrator has been tasked in auditing the company's Configuration Management Database (CMDB) and notices that there are several entries for VMS that were previously decommissioned.

Current VM Decommission Process:

Application owners delete the application from the Calm project.

Application owners submit a ticket to IT for:

Removal of the Domain object

DNS record removal

CMDB entry removal

What Blueprint activity should be used to automate the manual steps listed above?

Creation of Calm Tasks for each of the three steps added to Library and consumed inside of a post VM Delete Task.

ACreation of Calm Runbooks for each of the three steps added as Post VM Delete Task.

BCreation of Calm Runbooks for each of the three Steps to the Library and consumed inside of a post VM Task.

CCreation of Calm Runbooks for each of the three steps &added to the library end consumed inside of Post VM Delete Task.

DCreation of Calm Endpoint that includes all steps added 35 a Post VM Delete Task

Answer : C

Calm Runbooks are a way to automate workflows that span across multiple applications, services, or platforms. They can be used to perform actions such as provisioning, scaling, backup, restore, etc. Calm Runbooks can be added to the Library and reused in different Blueprints or Projects. A Post VM Delete Task is a special type of Task that is executed after a VM is deleted from a Blueprint. By creating Calm Runbooks for each of the manual steps required to decommission a VM, and adding them to the Library, the administrator can simplify the VM Decommission Process by consuming them inside of a Post VM Delete Task. This way, the application owners only need to delete the application from the Calm project, and the rest of the steps will be automated by the Runbooks.Reference:

Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA) Exam Blueprint Guide, page 16, section 4.3.1

Nutanix Calm Runbooks

Nutanix Calm Library

Nutanix Calm Tasks

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