NCP-DB

About this course

Target exam: Nutanix Certified Professional - Database Automation (NCP-DB) 7.5

Software under test:

• Nutanix Database Service (NDB) 2.10
• Prism Central pc.7.5
• Engine guides for Oracle and SQL Server at NDB 2.11

Exam facts:

• 75 multiple-choice / multiple-response questions
• 120 minutes
• passing score 3000 (scaled 1000-6000)
• $200 USD per attempt
• English and Japanese
• delivered by remote proctoring or at a test center
• 2 additional attempts allowed, 7 days apart; after 3 failures, a 60-day wait
• valid 3 years

The 7.5 blueprint was first published for the free beta (95 questions / 180 minutes, pass mark set after the beta period). The figures above are the general-availability parameters now published on the Nutanix certification-details page; the objectives and pinned software versions are unchanged from the blueprint.

Delivered in 4 lots (one per blueprint Section). Each lot is a full course chapter set plus its share of the 300-question practice bank - all in English, grounded in the official Nutanix NDB 2.10 reference corpus. The hierarchy is 1:1 and auditable: 4 sections - 18 objectives - 18 chapters, where Chapter N = Objective X.Y.

How this course is built

Each chapter maps to exactly one blueprint objective, and every subsection follows the same frame, so it doubles as a study guide and a revision checklist:

1. Why it matters - the exam relevance of the subsection.
2. How it works - the concept explained version-accurately to NDB 2.10 and Prism Central pc.7.5.
3. Exam pitfalls - the traps and confusions the exam likes to test.
4. Key facts - a condensed revision box.
5. Source - the exact NDB 2.10 documents the subsection is grounded in.

Every factual block cites its source document, read from the live Nutanix Support Portal rather than from memory. Numeric facts (ports, SLA retention, Time Machine limits, HA tolerances, cluster maximums) are pinned to the docs. Any point that could not be confirmed against the corpus is flagged with a warning marker rather than invented.

Preparation course

80 sections across 4 parts.

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Part I - Deploy and Configure an NDB Solution

• 1.1.1 What NDB is and where it installs
• 1.1.2 Download, import, create, and run the installation wizard
• 1.1.3 Determine and configure network settings
• 1.1.4 Deploy NDB on Flow Virtual Private Cloud subnets
• 1.1.5 Assign a static IP to the NDB VM by using the console
• 1.1.6 Control-plane configuration and scalability

• 1.2.1 Logging on to NDB
• 1.2.2 Language settings and the SSL certificate
• 1.2.3 Configure NTP and DNS from the NDB Server CLI
• 1.2.4 Configure SMTP for alert notifications

• 1.3.1 HA overview and what it guarantees
• 1.3.2 HA topology and components
• 1.3.3 Enabling HA and its constraints
• 1.3.4 Service resiliency and failure tolerance
• 1.3.5 Enable multi-cluster
• Exam must-knows - Section 1

Part II - Monitor Alerts and Storage Usage

• 2.1.1 Monitor alerts using the Alerts Dashboard
• 2.1.2 Resolve alerts
• 2.1.3 Manage alert policies
• 2.1.4 Configure alert retention
• 2.1.5 Email notifications for alerts

• 2.2.1 Identify database source and clone size (copy-data management)
• 2.2.2 Monitor database storage efficiency
• 2.2.3 Monitor the number and size of snapshots
• 2.2.4 Snapshot retention and promotion
• 2.2.5 Scale or extend storage for a database
• 2.2.6 The Time Machine dashboard
• Exam must-knows - Section 2

Part III - Operate and Maintain an NDB Environment

• 3.1.1 Verify the prerequisites
• 3.1.2 The registration workflow
• 3.1.3 Registering databases that use Nutanix Objects
• 3.1.4 Registering a database server cluster
• 3.1.5 Log management: NDB versus third-party backup

• 3.2.1 Provisioning workflow and supported engines
• 3.2.2 Single instance versus HA
• 3.2.3 Oracle PDBs and CDBs
• 3.2.4 Configuring custom drive letters for SQL Server
• 3.2.5 Profiles, sizing, and Oracle limitations
• 3.2.6 Configure Time Machine at provisioning time

• 3.3.1 One-click patching: OS versus database software modes
• 3.3.2 Creating software profile versions: image-based versus incremental package
• 3.3.3 Applying patches and maintenance windows
• 3.3.4 Entity sharing in the patch and operate context

• 3.4.1 Analyse alerts
• 3.4.2 Review and interpret operation logs
• 3.4.3 Generate a diagnostics bundle (UI and CLI)
• 3.4.4 Shutdown and provisioning-failure troubleshooting

• 3.5.1 Clone concepts
• 3.5.2 Create clones and their options
• 3.5.3 Refresh and remove clones

• 3.6.1 Restore from a snapshot
• 3.6.2 Restore to a point in time
• 3.6.3 Restore from a remote cluster, and Oracle Disaster Recovery

• 3.7.1 Time Machine requirements
• 3.7.2 Built-in SLAs and custom SLAs
• 3.7.3 Manage Data Access Management (DAM) policies
• 3.7.4 Protect databases
• Exam must-knows - Section 3

Part IV - Administer an NDB Environment

• 4.1.1 Profile types
• 4.1.2 Software profiles
• 4.1.3 Compute, Network, Database Parameter, and Windows Domain profiles
• 4.1.4 Profile status, OOB identification, and replication

• 4.2.1 Upgrade requirements and methods
• 4.2.2 The HA upgrade sequence
• 4.2.3 Failure behaviour and rollback

• 4.3.1 Prerequisites
• 4.3.2 Register the cluster and enable multi-cluster
• 4.3.3 Configure storage containers

• 4.4.1 When to use an NDB-managed network
• 4.4.2 Create an NDB-managed network, add a VLAN, and place database VMs
• 4.4.3 NDB with Flow Virtual Networking
• 4.4.4 Add a stretched VLAN

• 4.5.1 The RBAC model
• 4.5.2 Built-in roles
• 4.5.3 Active Directory integration
• 4.5.4 Custom roles, users, groups, and entity sharing

• 4.6.1 Selecting the appropriate tool
• 4.6.2 Use the API Equivalent button
• 4.6.3 Use the CLI and the REST API
• Exam must-knows - Section 4

Training

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