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Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA v6.5) Exam

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Questions 1

An administrator needs to add AWS as a usable destination for application deployments.

Where would the administrator perform the task?

Options:

A.  

Marketplace

B.  

Projects

C.  

Blueprints

D.  

Providers

Discussion 0
Questions 2

Which two items are required to create a Category via automation? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

Tags

B.  

Purpose

C.  

Name

D.  

Value

Discussion 0
Questions 3

Exhibit.

The user would like to take a snapshot, expand the vDisk and get the result with a Slack message triggered by a pipeline CI/CD.

What trigger should be used?

Options:

A.  

Manual

B.  

REST API

C.  

Alert

D.  

Webhook

Discussion 0
Questions 4

An administrator has created a task for a blueprint that could be applied to another blueprint. The administrator wants to reuse the task with the least amount of effort.

How can the administrator accomplish this?

Options:

A.  

Publish the task to Github select the task from the Github Repository from the other blueprint.

B.  

Publish the task to the Marketplace, select the task from the Marketplace from the other blueprint.

C.  

Publish the task to the Task Repository, select the task from the Task Repository from the other blueprint.

D.  

Publish the task to the Task Library select the task from the Task Library from the other blueprint.

Discussion 0
Questions 5

An administrator has performed a self-Service (formerly Calm) upgrade from version 3.3 to 3.6. After performing the upgrade, the administrator has noticed all the Policy Engine scheduled jobs are failing and this alert is being presented in PC.

What should the administrator do to resolve the alert?

Options:

A.  

Upgrade Policy Engine using LCM.

B.  

Upgrade Engine using YUM Update.

C.  

Upgrade Policy Engine using APT update.

D.  

Reboot policy Engine VM.

Discussion 0
Questions 6

A developer created blueprints in a development environment, and everything worked as expected. The developer then moved the blueprints to the production environment but noticed that the deployment is noticeable slower in production compared to the development environment.

What is the most likely issue causing this behavior?

Options:

A.  

The production Prism Central is not compatible with Calm.

B.  

The production Prism Element Data service IP address is incorrect.

C.  

The production Prism Central only has 26 RAM allocated.

D.  

Prism Central is not able to reach the DNS server.

Discussion 0
Questions 7

The development leadership has submitted a request to run a resource-intensive script after hours on separate test environments for testing application load. The current environments are setup as separate projects within Self-Service (formerly Calm).

Requirements:

* The script needs to run on each test environment.

* The script needs to run at separate times for each test environment.

* The development team needs the ability to modify the script as needed.

How would the administrator accomplish the task?

Options:

A.  

Publish Runbook

B.  

Publish Playbook

C.  

Blueprint

D.  

Playbook

Discussion 0
Questions 8

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?

Options:

A.  

vpc

B.  

Site-to-Site VPN Tunnel

C.  

VPN Client

D.  

Tunnel Entity

Discussion 0
Questions 9

Exhibit.

An administrator must launch applications deployments on any remote Prism Central (PC) from the PC hosting Calm Global.

What must the administrator do to satisfy this requirement?

Options:

A.  

Create a Nutanix account for each remote PC on the local PC and add the accounts to the project.

B.  

Create a Nutanix account any remote PE on Calm Global and add the account to the project.

C.  

Create a Nutanix account for any remote PC on Calm Global and add the account to the project.

D.  

Create a Nutanix account for each remote PE on the local PC and add the accounts to the project.

Discussion 0
Questions 10

A subset of Linux VMS is required to be gracefully shutdown each evening. A Playbook is created to shut down the targeted VMs, however, the error message shown in the error message when the Playbook is executed.

Data flow

Playbook execution terminated due to action failure.

Trigger

Manual

Action

Power of vm

Error message Failed to with Internal Error. VM power state task failed to complete. status: Error: INTERNAL_ERROR: Errorcode: 9

What is causing the error message?

Options:

A.  

The VM is missing Nutanix Guest Tool.

B.  

executing the not have privileges.

C.  

The VM is Off.

D.  

The SSH Service is not running on the VMs.

Discussion 0
Questions 11

What minimum requirement is necessary to enable Self-Service (formerly Calm) policies for scheduling and approval tasks?

Options:

A.  

Calm VM

B.  

Policy Engine VM

C.  

Service Now Plugin

D.  

NGT Plugin

Discussion 0
Questions 12

An administrator manages a Nutanix cluster with 630 VMs, all of which are in production.

The Accounting department wants to be notified when any of their production VMs exceed 90% CPU usage or 90% memory usage. Their VMs are categorized as LOB:Accounting.

How should the administrator satisfy this request from the Accounting department?

Options:

A.  

Direct the VM users to generate alerts within the affected VMs.

B.  

Create a dashboard in Prism Central with the CPU Usage.

C.  

Create a category named Department with the value Accounting.

D.  

Create an Alert with the Accounting category assigned.

Discussion 0
Questions 13

When configuring Calm to use Kubernetes as a provider, what two options does an administrator have as Kubernetes types? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

Rancher

B.  

Karbon

C.  

OpenShift

D.  

Vanilla

Discussion 0
Questions 14

Which RBAC role enables adding VMs to a project?

Options:

A.  

Developer

B.  

Project Admin

C.  

Operation

D.  

Prism Admin

Discussion 0
Questions 15

Exhibit.

A Blueprint Developer has been asked to Create a Application Blueprint for AWS and Azure.

Which two actions must be complete to enable the developer to complete this requested task? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

Create AWS and Azure Accounts.

B.  

Enable Environment for AWS and Azure.

C.  

Add the provider Accounts to the project.

D.  

Select a public image in the region.

Discussion 0
Questions 16

An administrator has a Linux VM that does batch processing out of a queue. Currently, a technician connects to the VM console and runs a command on the VM to initiate or terminate the batch processing application, as there is no programmatic interface for the application.

The application is processor intensive, so it should only run outside of business hours. The VM has the ability to send REST API calls to Prism.

How should the administrator configure a Playbook to satisfy the needs of this process with minimal external interaction?

Options:

A.  

Manual Trigger > Power On > VM SSH > Wait for Some Time > Power Off VM

B.  

Time Trigger > VM SSH > Wait for Some Time > VM SSH

C.  

Webhook Trigger > REST API > Wait for Some Time > REST API

D.  

Manual Trigger > VM SSH > Wait for Some Time > VM SSH

Discussion 0
Questions 17

Exhibit.

An organization has decided to enable the self-Service (formerly Calm) Showback feature, but started to receive an alert in Prism Central stating that showback is not able to reach the Beam service.

Which configuration item should the administrator check to ensure Self-Service can communicate with Beam?

Options:

A.  

Prism Element is configured with Proxy settings.

B.  

Ensure Nutanix Account is verified.

C.  

DNS is configured is Prism Central.

D.  

Flow is enabled in the same Prism Central.

Discussion 0
Questions 18

What are the two Calm SaaS API Key components? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

SaaS Token

B.  

Token

C.  

JSON file

D.  

Name

Discussion 0
Questions 19

Which two features does the Calm Marketplace provide? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

Published and versioned Blueprints

B.  

Library of executable tasks

C.  

Store of all Blueprints created in Calm

D.  

Set of pre-seeded application Blueprints

Discussion 0
Questions 20

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?

Options:

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

Discussion 0
Questions 21

The administrator has already added the power off and power on actions to the new playbook.

Which two additional playbook actions should the administrator add? (choose two.)

Options:

A.  

VM Add CPU with no Limit

B.  

VM Add Memory Action

C.  

Send Alert to ServiceNow Action

D.  

VM Add CPU Action with limits

E.  

VMs do not support hot add

Discussion 0
Questions 22

What is one prerequisite for deploying Self-Service (formerly Calm)?

Options:

A.  

At least 12 GB of memory is allocated.

B.  

A unique Service IP address must be configured in the Prism web console cluster tat is running on Prism, Central.

C.  

A unique Virtual IP address must be configured in the Prism web console cluster that is running on Prism Central.

D.  

The mDNS server is reachable from Prism Central.

Discussion 0
Questions 23

Which Providers are supported in Multi-VM Blueprints? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

IBM Cloud

B.  

Oracle Cloud

C.  

Nutanix

D.  

Microsoft Azure

E.  

Amazon AWS

Discussion 0
Questions 24

Which Nutanix product version must be compatible to deploy Self-service (formerly Calm)?

Options:

A.  

AOS

B.  

Prism Element

C.  

AHV

D.  

Prism Central

Discussion 0
Questions 25

An administrator needs to create a Playbook to be notified when VMs are deleted.

Which X-Play Trigger would satisfy this task?

Options:

A.  

Alert

B.  

Audit

C.  

Event

D.  

Time

Discussion 0
Questions 26

An administrator has a vendor-provided script that must be run at 9 am every Saturday on a Linux application VM.

The administrator currently has a playbook that has a Time trigger and a VM SSH action to execute the script. However, the administrator has received a request to have the output of the script emailed to the application team when it is executed.

What is the easiest way to satisfy this request?

Options:

A.  

Modify the script to include a function to format the output of the script and email the output to the desired address.

B.  

Add an Email action to the end of the existing playbook and use the {{action [index].response_body}} parameter in the Message field.

C.  

Direct the output of the script to a file and use the Send Email with Payload action at the end of your existing playbook.

D.  

Add an Email action to the end of the existing playbook and use the {{action[index] .stdout}} parameter in the Message field.

Discussion 0
Questions 27

An administrator is configuring Playbooks and is concerned about adding or reducing CPU and memory resources to VMs.

Which two prerequisites should an administrator take into consideration when configuring the Playbooks? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

CPU can be added to a powered on VM if the guest OS supports it

B.  

VM must be powered off to add CPU

C.  

VM must be powered off to reduce memory

D.  

Memory can be removed from a powered on VM if the guest OS supports it

Discussion 0
Questions 28

What is the most optimal way to transfer Playbooks between different Nutanix Cloud Managers (NCM)?

Options:

A.  

NCM Disaster Recovery

B.  

Export and Import

C.  

Use Date Lens to migrate.

D.  

Recreate the Playbook

Discussion 0
Questions 29

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

Options:

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

Discussion 0
Questions 30

Within a Calm blueprint, which two actions can an administrator apply to a Service under the Guest Customization section? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

Apply a Cloudinit Script

B.  

Apply a Sysprep file

C.  

Modify the base OS image

D.  

Choose UEFI or Legacy BIOS

Discussion 0
Questions 31

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?

Options:

A.  

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

B.  

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

C.  

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

D.  

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

Discussion 0
Questions 32

Refer to the exhibit.

The VM appSAP01dev is a SAP development environment application and it is common to have memory constrained alerts on this VM, but the administrator wants to avoid adding memory to development VMs like this one, since this is normally done for only production VMs.

Which two actions should the administrator take to avoid adding memory to the development VMs? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

Assign the category Environment:Production to the production VMs

B.  

Modify the Alert by adding the correct category

C.  

Disable the Alert in Prism Central

D.  

Assign the category Environment:Development to development VMs

Discussion 0
Questions 33

When can a variable be updated during a Runbook execution?

Options:

A.  

Only if the variable is marked as a runtime editable

B.  

Only during the Runbook execution

C.  

Only during a Blueprint execution

D.  

Only if the variable is marked as a runtime executable

Discussion 0
Questions 34

Where can an administrator view captured snapshot for a single VM blueprint running with Nutanix as the provider?

Options:

A.  

AMIS tab

B.  

Snapshot tab

C.  

Recovery point tab

D.  

Manage tab.

Discussion 0
Questions 35

An administrator would like to be notified each time a subset of VMS within the Environment:Dev category is restored from snapshot.

Which trigger should the administrator use to satisfy this requirement?

Options:

A.  

Event, where event type is Restored VM from Snapshot and Target VM is the specific VMS.

B.  

Event, where the event is Snapshot Restoration, and the Target VM is VMS in Environment: Dev

C.  

Alerts Matching Criteria. where alert type is Snapshot Restoration, and the criteria is the VM names.

D.  

Alert. where alert type is Restored VM from Snapshot and target VM Category is Environment: Dev

Discussion 0
Questions 36

After an application is no longer needed, a user puts in a ticket to delete the VM. The administrator finds the VM in Prism Central and deletes it, but then realize that it was a Self-Service (formerly Calm) managed VM.

When the administrator attempts the application in Self-Service using the Delete action, it fails because the Substrate cannot be found.

How would the administrator delete the application from management?

Options:

A.  

In the Audit view of the application, click Retry

B.  

Execute the Soft Delete action to ignore the provide substrate.

C.  

Execute the Delete action again, the second run will ignore the error.

D.  

The platform Sync Service will remove the application.

Discussion 0
Questions 37

An administrator needs to notify the on-call pager after hours using their PagerDuty incident management platform.

How should the administrator integrate notifications via PagerDuty in a Playbook using the least number of configurations possible?

Options:

A.  

Create an action to notify PagerDuty via IP address.

B.  

Create an action to send an alert to PagerDuty'.

C.  

Send Alert to Webhook which will use APIs to send notification to PagerDuty.

D.  

Send Alert to Nutanix v3 API which will use APIs to send notification to PagerDuty.

Discussion 0
Questions 38

Exhibit.

What ports should be opened? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

TCP 22

B.  

UDP 5985 and 5986

C.  

TC 5985 and 5986

D.  

UDP 22

Discussion 0
Questions 39

What are Self-Service (formerly Calm) Substrates?

Options:

A.  

Substrates use install and Uninstall operations run when a blueprint is first launched or when the entire app is finally deleted.

B.  

Substrates are a combination of the underlying cloud and the virtual machine instance.

C.  

Substrates are runbooks used to accomplish a particular task on an app

D.  

Substrates are part of a templating language for Self-Service scripts. These are evaluated by the Self-Service execution before the script is run.

Discussion 0
Questions 40

Which role is required to create a remote Prism Central account within Self-Service (formerly Clam)?

Options:

A.  

Developer

B.  

Prism Admin

C.  

Operator

D.  

Project Admin

Discussion 0
Questions 41

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

Options:

A.  

Custom actions

B.  

eScript task with custom macros

C.  

Runtime variables

D.  

HTTP task with built-in macros

Discussion 0
Questions 42

Which is the correct Macro syntax?

Options:

A.  

@@{and}@@

B.  

@@(and)@@

C.  

@@[and]@@

D.  

@@{and]@@

Discussion 0
Questions 43

An administrator needs to enable Showback in Calm to allow departments to see costs associated with their Projects.

Where in Calm would the administrator enable Showback?

Options:

A.  

Marketplace

B.  

Projects

C.  

Setting

D.  

LCM

Discussion 0
Questions 44

Refer to the exhibit.

Saving the Calm Blueprint gives the validation error for VMware Blueprints shown in the exhibit.

What could be the cause of the error?

Options:

A.  

Number of Template vCPU components should be equal to the number of pCPU configured.

B.  

Number of Template NICs components should be equal to the number of Network Settings configured.

C.  

Number of Template devices components should be equal to the number of Devices configured.

D.  

Number of Template VMXNET3 components should be equal to the number of Virtual e1000 adapters configured.

Discussion 0
Questions 45

A developer has created a variable type that should be used for all deployments. However, when an administrator is creating a blueprint, the variable is not available.

What must the developer do to make it visible?

Options:

A.  

Share the variable with the project.

B.  

Publish the variable to Marketplace.

C.  

Add the administrator to the Developer role.

D.  

Add the administrator to the Project Admin role.

Discussion 0
Questions 46

The administrator receives the below error when deleting an Application from a Self-Service (formerly Calm) blueprint for a Linux VM when using a custom script as part of the Delete system action:

Which two steps should the administrator take to delete the deployment? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

Perform a Soft Delete

B.  

Perform a Stop

C.  

Perform a Delete

D.  

Manually delete the VM

Discussion 0
Questions 47

Which option is used to test or validate scripts before deployment?

Options:

A.  

Test Script

B.  

EScript

C.  

PowerShell

D.  

Shell

Discussion 0
Questions 48

An administrator has just noticed that a play is stuck in a suspended state.

What is possible reason for this issue?

Options:

A.  

The playbook is in a disabled status.

B.  

The playbook was set with a Manual trigger and required being resourced.

C.  

Autopilot was set for Wait for approval for every attempt.

D.  

Autopilot status is set to disabled.

Discussion 0
Questions 49

What are two valid trigger types available for executing Playbooks? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

Manual

B.  

Alert

C.  

Report

D.  

Audit

Discussion 0
Questions 50

A developer Is building and testing a new Blueprint to deploy a Window Server VM on AHV. During one of the test runs, the application build fails.

The developer asks an administrator to investigate the failure. After careful review, the administrator finds this error message on a task that execute a Poweredshell script.

What is the cause of this error message?

Options:

A.  

The Powershell script has an error in the code and cannot be executed as designed.

B.  

CredSSP has not been enabled on the Windows Operating System.

C.  

The version of PowerShell is incorrect.

D.  

Self-Service cannot communicate with the newly provisioned VM.

Discussion 0
Questions 51

Why is an administrator unable to update the running configuration for a mufti-VM application in AWS using the Manage tab for the application in Calm?

Options:

A.  

It is supported only on a Nutanix platform.

B.  

A required Category is not assigned.

C.  

The AWS account used is invalid.

D.  

The provider information is missing.

Discussion 0
Questions 52

Where would a Calm Developer find logging related to blueprint package failures?

Options:

A.  

In Calm select Application icon > select application name > Audit Tab

B.  

In Calm select Application icon > select application name > Services Tab

C.  

SSH to Prism Central > /home/calm/log/styx.log

D.  

In Prism Central go to Activities > Audits and get the audits filter by date

Discussion 0
Questions 53

An administrator is deploying a Windows VM from a Blueprint. As a step in the Blueprint, a PowerShell script needs to run on the target. VM. The communication between Calm and the VM is secured.

Which inbound port need to be opened for the PowerShell script to run on the VM?

Options:

A.  

1433

B.  

3389

C.  

5986

D.  

5985

Discussion 0
Questions 54

An administrator wants to create two database VMS using replicas and needs to access the same mount_path for hosting the backup files during the deployment on both VMs,

What should the administrator do on the Blueprint to achieve this requirement?

Options:

A.  

Set mount_path = u01/app/backup as a runtime variable

B.  

Set mount_path = u01/app/backup as a runtime replica

C.  

Set mount_path = u01/app/backup as a runtime task

D.  

Set mount_path = u01/app/backup as a runtime service

Discussion 0