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Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA) v6 Exam Question and Answers

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

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Questions 1

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

Options:

A.  

Enabled inside of Prism Element

B.  

Deployed as a VM on ESXi

C.  

Deployed as a VM on Hyper-V

D.  

Deployed as a VM on AHV

Discussion 0
Questions 2

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 3

A company wants to ensure that all developers are able to request new development environments on demand by using ServiceNow.

The administrator notices that even though developers create new environments, they rarely remove these environments when moving on to new assignments. Today, the administrator has gone into Prism Central to check when the VM was created, in order to reach out to the developer and ask if it can be deleted. The administrator has accidentally deleted the wrong VM in the past.

Which two methods can the administrator use to automate this task to avoid deleting the incorrect VMs? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

Create a playbook REST API action to delete the VM from a ServiceNow approval flow.

B.  

Create a playbook webhook action to delete the VM from a ServiceNow approval flow.

C.  

Create a playbook webhook trigger to delete the VM from a ServiceNow approval flow.

D.  

Create a playbook REST API trigger to delete the VM from a ServiceNow approval flow.

Discussion 0
Questions 4

A new monitoring application is being rolled out across the Organization. An administrator has been tasked with automating the installation of the local agent on all Linux VMs.

The current environment has the following VMS deployed:

18 VMS created pre-Calm adoption.

32 VMS created post-Calm adoption.

Which action should the administrator take to automate this deployment for existing VMs?

Options:

A.  

In Calm, create a Brownfield deployment attaching to both pre-Calm and post-Calm created VMS and add the Agent installation script to the Blueprint.

B.  

In Calm, create an Endpoint that includes all Linux VMS and include the Endpoint a Runbook that executes a shell script for agent installation.

C.  

Create a new golden image that includes the monitoring client and deploy all VMS again to bring them under Calm management.

Discussion 0
Questions 5

An administrator is providing users with access to the company's LOB applications through a VDI solution. The administrator received information that the company are going to hire 200 new employees who will be using these applications.

The environment is monitored by a third-party tool that notifies the administrator when the VDI solution is about to run out of capacity. This gives the administrator time to create additional resources and add them to the VDI solution.

What should the administrator use when creating a playbook to automate this?

Options:

A.  

A trigger based on a REST API

B.  

A trigger based on an email

C.  

A trigger based on an event

D.  

A trigger based on an alert

Discussion 0
Questions 6

Save Playbook

Given input is invalid. No existing secret params found. password cannot XXXXXXX have value.

An administrator is receiving the error shown in the exhibit while saving the Playbook.

What is causing this issue?

Options:

A.  

Password Policy does not match for the given password.

B.  

There are no saved credentials found in the Playbook.

C.  

The given credentials do not have the access for execution.

D.  

The Playbook is cloned from another playbook with a password.

Discussion 0
Questions 7

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 8

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 9

An administrator creates a blueprint to deploy VMs to multiple clouds, so that business will remain functional in the event of a disaster.

What component describes this feature?

Options:

A.  

Service

B.  

Profile Actions

C.  

Package

D.  

Substrates

Discussion 0
Questions 10

An application team wants faster releases and starts an initiative to automate the entire database and application deployments.

The current manual process involves:

Creating virtual machines to host the databases and applications

Allocate right amount of storage for the database and applications

Deploy database software and create database

Schedule backup and recovery process for the database

Deploy applications

How can application releases be repeatedly deployed in the least amount of time?

Options:

A.  

Create a Calm blueprint calling Calm APIs for both database and applications deployments

B.  

Deploy databases manually and create a Calm blueprint to automate application deployment

C.  

Deploy databases through Era and create a Calm blueprint to automate application deployment

D.  

Create a Calm blueprint deploying applications and calling Era APis to automate database deployments

Discussion 0
Questions 11

Which Calm feature enables the ability to enforce project quotas for the ESXi hypervisor?

Options:

A.  

Project Environments

B.  

Project Quotas

C.  

Runbooks

D.  

Policy Engine

Discussion 0
Questions 12

How should an administrator enable Calm?

Options:

A.  

Prism Central -> Services -> Calm -> Enable

B.  

Prism Element -> LCM -> Calm -> Enable

C.  

Prism Central -> Settings -> Calm -> Enable

D.  

Prism Central -> Settings -> Upgrade Prism Central -> Calm -> Enable

Discussion 0
Questions 13

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 14

A company's NOC personnel have a custom Python script they run manually by logging into each VM to fix a common issue across all of the corporate VMs. Management has no audit history of who is running the script or when it is occurring. The company has recently implemented Calm and management has asked its administrators to accomplish these tasks:

Reduce the manual effort for the NOC personnel.

Ensure the process is repeatable across all applications.

Provide audit history for management of the actions.

Which two actions should the administrators take to accomplish these tasks? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

Create a new Action, Add an Execute task with a script type of EScript, paste the custom script into the action

B.  

View the Execution History tab under the Runbook page for audit purposes

C.  

Create a new Runbook Add an Execute task with a script type of EScript paste the custom script into the action

D.  

View the Audit tab under the Application view for audit purposes

Discussion 0
Questions 15

Which feature of Calm allows for the creation of task-based automation against dynamic lists of Windows or Linux VMs?

Options:

A.  

Projects

B.  

Blueprints

C.  

Playbooks

D.  

Runbooks

Discussion 0
Questions 16

What is included in the PagerDuty Integration service during configuration?

Options:

A.  

Plays

B.  

Alert Grouping

C.  

reports

D.  

Manual Parameter

Discussion 0
Questions 17

A company has a business-critical VM. The VM Utilization of CPU and memory differs from time to time, but can never be allowed to run out of resources. The administrator also wants to make sure that the VM is not over provisioned when not needed.

The administrator determines these requirements that have been validated and automated in a test environment should also apply for the production environment:

VCPU needs to be added when CPU Utilization been over 80% for 15 minutes.

Memory needs to be increased by 4 GB when utilization reaches 80%.

Return of over-allocated resources must not affect other business applications.

What can the administrator do with the least amount of effort to make sure the VM is always performant and returns resources when not required?

Options:

A.  

Clone and adjust the system-created playbooks

B.  

Import the playbook and adjust the values

C.  

Create a blueprint based on requirements

D.  

Create a task based on requirements

Discussion 0
Questions 18

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
Questions 19

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.

Options:

A.  

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

B.  

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

C.  

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

D.  

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

Discussion 0
Questions 20

Refer to the exhibit.

A Blueprint fails on executing a check-login task against a Windows 2016 VM and displays the error shown in the exhibit. The administrator is using a SSH key-based credential to authenticate the task.

What should the administrator change to resolve the issue?

Options:

A.  

Increase the retries to allow for the task to complete.

B.  

Change to password authentication credential.

C.  

Ensure the private key for the credential is correct.

D.  

Modify the timeout to give the task longer to complete.

Discussion 0
Questions 21

Refer to the exhibit.

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

Options:

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

Discussion 0
Questions 22

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 23

An administrator is notified of changes made to VMs on an AHV cluster and wants to verify the changes inside of a Calm application.

Where should the administrator check for synchronized changes between Prism Central and Calm?

Options:

A.  

On the Prism Central Tasks page

B.  

On the Audit tab of the Calm application

C.  

On the Environments tab of the Calm project

D.  

On the Overview tab of the Calm application

Discussion 0
Questions 24

An administrator at a busy software development company is looking to roll out Calm for automation and estimates they will be creating 200 Projects, 500 Runbooks, 1500 Blueprints and automating the deployment of 7500 VMs for their development teams.

What size of Prism Central VM(s) is recommended to host the Calm environment?

Options:

A.  

3 nodes Large - 10vCPU and 52GB Memory per node.

B.  

1 node Small - 6vCPU and 30GB Memory per node.

C.  

3 nodes Small - 6vCPU and 30GB Memory per node.

D.  

1 node Large - 10vCPU and 52GB Memory per node.

Discussion 0
Questions 25

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 26

What role must a user have in order to create or update a Playbook?

Options:

A.  

Calm Developer

B.  

Prism Admin

C.  

Calm Admin

D.  

Project Admin

Discussion 0
Questions 27

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 28

A developer has been asked to update the existing blueprint with an additional option of scaling it both out and in.

Where in the Blueprint Editor should the developer make the relevant changes?

Options:

A.  

Environment, Actions

B.  

Configuration, Settings

C.  

Blueprint, Configuration

D.  

Application Profile, Actions

Discussion 0
Questions 29

An administrator had provided Linux VM console access to the OS Team. However, the team is unable to access one of the newly-created Linux VMs.

How can the administrator resolve this issue?

Options:

A.  

Create a local user in Linux OS and provide access to the OS Team.

B.  

Provide Prism Admin access to the OS Team Active Directory Group.

C.  

Create a role for the OS Team Active Directory Group and add the VMs to it.

D.  

Assign new VMs to a category and provide category access to the OS Team.

Discussion 0
Questions 30

An administrator is tasked with creating a blueprint that can scale an application using Calm.

Which two actions should the administrator take to create and execute a scaling action? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.  

Execute the scaling action in the Manage tab of the application.

B.  

Execute the scaling action in the Services tab of the application.

C.  

Create the action under the service profile section of the blueprint.

D.  

Create the action under the application profile section of the blueprint.

Discussion 0
Questions 31

An administrator notices a Blueprint fails with the following error for Windows machines:

script execution has failed with error Process creation failed with error:1314

What is causing this issue?

Options:

A.  

The firewall ports 5985 and 5986 are blocked.

B.  

The Service is running with incorrect privileges to create a process.

C.  

The credentials provided in the Calm Blueprint does not have sufficient privileges.

D.  

The Windows machine is in hung state.

Discussion 0
Questions 32

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 33

When creating a Playbook using alerts, which types of actions can be executed?

Options:

A.  

Task alert end communication actions

B.  

VM, alert and communication actions

C.  

VM, notification, and report actions

D.  

Task notification. and report actions

Discussion 0
Questions 34

What is the minimum number of actions required in the Branch Condition for X-Play?

Options:

A.  

1

B.  

2

C.  

3

D.  

4

Discussion 0
Questions 35

Refer to exhibits.

The variable VM_NAME is giving a warning that indicates that the variable is not found. When checking the Service tab, the variable is found to match the VM_NAME field entry as shown in the exhibit below:

What is causing this warning message?

Options:

A.  

VM_NAME variable must be defined under Application Profile

B.  

Service Name matches the variable name

C.  

@@{calm_time}@@ output is longer than allowed for a Service Name

D.  

User modifiable variable for VM_NAME is not allowed

Discussion 0
Questions 36

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

Options:

A.  

HTTP Proxy

B.  

Authentication Directory

C.  

Pulse

D.  

Local User Role Mapping

Discussion 0
Questions 37

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?

Options:

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.

Discussion 0