NCP-MCI
75 questions 120 min Pass: 3000 / 6000 Official Nutanix Website Nutanix University
About this course
Target exam: Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) 7.5
Software under test:
- AOS 7.5
- AHV 11.0
- Prism Central pc.7.5
Exam facts:
- 75 multiple-choice / multiple-response questions
- 120 minutes
- passing score 3000 (scaled 1000–6000)
- English & Japanese
- $200 USD
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 31 official Nutanix reference documents.
How this course is built
Each chapter follows the same structure, so it doubles as a study guide and a revision checklist:
- Objective & exam relevance - the blueprint objective(s) the chapter maps to.
- Core concepts - explained from the ground up, version-accurate to 7.5 / AHV 11.0 / pc.7.5.
- How-to / workflows - the administrative tasks the exam expects you to perform.
- Requirements, limits & gotchas - the numbers and constraints exams love to test.
- Key takeaways - a condensed revision box.
- Source references - the exact corpus documents the chapter is grounded in.
The practice questions: 4 options, one correct answer (with a subset of multiple-response "select TWO" items to match the real exam), every answer explained, each tagged with its objective.
Preparation course
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Part I - Manage Clusters in a Multicloud Environment
1 Cluster Deployment & Configuration Obj 1.1
- 1.1 Foundation: the deployment engine
- 1.2 The three forms of Foundation
- 1.3 Network and IP planning
- 1.4 CVM sizing
- 1.5 Node imaging: Phoenix / AHV ISO
- 1.6 Security choices made at deployment time
- 1.7 Post-installation: configuring required services
- 1.8 Other deployment facts worth memorizing
2 Prism Central Deployment & Scaling Obj 1.2
- 2.1 What Prism Central is
- 2.2 Deployment sizes
- 2.3 Deploying PC: Nutanix vs non-Nutanix, and multiple instances
- 2.4 Right-sizing PC for the features you enable
- 2.5 Enabling features and NTP
- 2.6 Policy Engine and Projects
3 Network Management Obj 1.3
- 3.1 Virtual switches and Open vSwitch
- 3.2 Uplink bond (load-balancing) modes
- 3.3 IP Address Management (IPAM): managed vs unmanaged
- 3.4 Changing an AHV host's IP / mask / gateway
- 3.5 VPCs and Flow Virtual Networking (overview)
- 3.6 NIC compatibility for RDMA
4 Cluster Storage Obj 1.4
- 4.1 Capacity-optimization (storage savings) techniques
- 4.2 EC requirements and interactions
- 4.3 Replication Factor and Cluster Fault Tolerance
- 4.4 Replication Factor 1 caveats
- 4.5 Recycle Bin
- 4.6 Shared containers, whitelists, reserved capacity
- 4.7 Mixing nodes and external storage
5 Cluster Security Obj 1.5
- 5.1 Hardening: SCMA and STIGs
- 5.2 Cluster Lockdown and SSH
- 5.3 SSL certificates
- 5.4 Data-at-Rest Encryption (DARE)
- 5.5 Key management options
- 5.6 Virtual TPM (vTPM)
- 5.7 Network segmentation
- 5.8 IAM, RBAC, and service accounts
- 5.9 Firewall and CAC
Part II - Manage Workloads in a Multicloud Environment
6 VM Management Obj 2.1
- 6.1 Creating and updating VMs
- 6.2 VM templates
- 6.3 Guest Customization Profiles
- 6.4 Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT)
- 6.5 Clone and restore from snapshots / recovery points
- 6.6 GPU and vGPU
- 6.7 UEFI, Secure Boot, and vTPM
- 6.8 Memory Overcommit
- 6.9 VM High Availability (Acropolis)
- 6.10 Affinity and anti-affinity
- 6.11 Acropolis Dynamic Scheduling (ADS)
- 6.12 Migration of VMs and vDisks
7 Storage Container Management Obj 2.2
- 7.1 Storage containers and replication factor
- 7.2 Identifying storage-savings use cases
- 7.3 Storage Policies (Prism Central)
- 7.4 Image management and catalog
- 7.5 Bandwidth Throttling Policies
- 7.6 Managing cluster fault tolerance (container angle)
8 Workload Storage & Volumes Obj 2.3
- 8.1 Nutanix Volumes overview
- 8.2 Volume Groups
- 8.3 iSCSI Data Services IP address
- 8.4 CHAP authentication
- 8.5 Supported Volumes use cases
- 8.6 Requirements and limitations to memorize
- 8.7 vDisk selection, live migration, and QoS
9 Convert VM Workloads (Nutanix Move) Obj 2.4
- 9.1 What Nutanix Move is
- 9.2 Supported migration paths
- 9.3 Migration workflow and phases
- 9.4 VM preparation and VirtIO
- 9.5 VirtIO for Windows on AHV
- 9.6 Security Policy Migration (NSX → Nutanix Flow)
- 9.7 Support bundles and troubleshooting
10 Securing Workloads Obj 2.5
- 10.1 Microsegmentation and Nutanix Flow
- 10.2 The four policy types
- 10.3 Security policy model and enforcement modes
- 10.4 Priorities between policies
- 10.5 Built-in categories
- 10.6 Microsegmentation requirements and limitations
- 10.7 ID Firewall and identity-based (VDI) policies
- 10.8 VM-level security: vTPM, Secure Boot, Credential Guard
- 10.9 VM-level encryption via storage policy
- 10.10 Security Central and approval policies
Part III - Implement Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
11 Protect & Recover Prism Central (PCBR) Obj 3.1
- 11.1 PCBR is the only supported way to back up Prism Central
- 11.2 Migrating a Prism Central instance
- 11.3 Requirements, limitations, and management
- 11.4 Known issue: PCVM reboots/crashes from unsupported backups
- 11.5 Practical guidance
12 Prism Central-Based DR for VMs & Volume Groups Obj 3.2
- 12.1 Building blocks
- 12.2 Replication schedules and RPO tiers
- 12.3 NearSync specifics
- 12.4 Synchronous replication (0 RPO)
- 12.5 Cross-Cluster Live Migration (CCLM / OD-CCLM)
- 12.6 Cross-Hypervisor DR (CHDR)
- 12.7 Virtual networks, failover types, and recovery
- 12.8 Volume groups, consistency groups, and special VMs
- 12.9 DR using Multicloud Snapshot Technology (MST)
13 Prism Element-Based DR Obj 3.3
- 13.1 Protection Domains
- 13.2 Remote sites
- 13.3 RPO schedules in Prism Element
- 13.4 Network and container mapping for failover
- 13.5 Planned vs unplanned failover (and failback)
- 13.6 Metro Availability
- 13.7 Metro Availability Witness
- 13.8 Choosing PE-based vs PC-based DR
Part IV - Perform Operations and Monitoring in a Multicloud Environment
14 Capacity Management Obj 4.1
- 14.1 Intelligent Operations (NCM)
- 14.2 Capacity runway and capacity planning
- 14.3 Resource planning with scenarios (what-if)
- 14.4 Behavioral learning and VM efficiency (right-sizing)
- 14.5 Proactive monitoring and alerting
- 14.6 Validating capacity under failure / DR scenarios
- 14.7 Heterogeneous clusters and resilient capacity
15 Platform & Performance Management Obj 4.2
- 15.1 Storage QoS per VM
- 15.2 Acropolis Dynamic Scheduling (ADS)
- 15.3 Analyzing VM performance (Analysis dashboard)
- 15.4 Automating resolution with X-Play Playbooks
- 15.5 Alerts, events, and alert policies
- 15.6 Audit logs
- 15.7 System logs and NCC for troubleshooting
16 Cluster Maintenance & LCM Obj 4.3
Training
Source corpus mapping
| Document | Primary objectives served |
|---|---|
| Field-Installation-Guide v5.10 | 1.1 |
| Foundation-Central-Appliance v2.1 | 1.1 |
| How to create a Phoenix/AHV ISO from a CVM or Foundation VM | 1.1 |
| Hardware-Admin-Guide | 1.1, 4.3 |
| Advanced-Admin-AOS v7.5 | 1.1, 1.4, 2.2, 4.2 |
| Web-Console-Guide-Prism v7.5 | 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.2, 4.3 |
| Prism-Central-Guide vpc_7.5 | 1.2, 1.3, 2.1 |
| Prism-Central-Admin-Center-Guide vpc_7.5 | 1.2, 1.5, 3.1 |
| PC Pre-Upgrade resource check / pc_vm_resource_resize_check | 1.2, 4.3 |
| Release-Notes-Prism-Central vpc_7.5_0_1 | 1.2 (what's new) |
| Nutanix-Flow-Network-Security-VLAN-Guide v4.2.0 | 1.3, 2.5 |
| Nutanix-Security-Guide v7.5 | 1.5, 2.5 |
| AHV-Admin-Guide v11.0 | 1.3, 2.1, 2.5, 4.2 |
| BP-2029-AHV | 2.1 |
| Document | Primary objectives served |
|---|---|
| Volumes-Guide | 2.3 |
| Nutanix-Move v6.1 | 2.4 |
| Nutanix-Cloud-Manager-Guide v1.5 | 2.5 (Security Central - to confirm) |
| Disaster-Recovery-DRaaS-Guide vpc_7.5 | 3.1, 3.2 |
| Prism-Element-Data-Protection-Guide v7.5 | 3.3 |
| Intelligent-Operations-Guide vpc_7.5 | 4.1, 4.2 |
| Prism-Central-Alert-Reference vpc_7.5 | 4.2 |
| Life-Cycle-Manager-Guide v3.3 | 4.3 |
| NCC ec_enablement_check / host_nic_error_check / LongRunningSubtasks | 1.4, 4.2 |
| lcm_node_recovery / LCM pinned-VM pre-check / "5 usable nodes" error | 4.3 |
| Random PC Reboots (3rd-party backup) | 3.1, 4.2 |
| BP-2015-Microsoft-SQL-Server | Contextual (workload example) |
| Self-Service-Admin-Operations-Guide v4.3.0 | Out of MCI core scope (reserve) |