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

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

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Question 1

Which method will result in unique names per VM when scaling out a Service in a Calm Blueprint?

Options:

A.

Guest OS customization using sysprep contains @@{name}@@.

B.

Service VM Name field contains the macro variable @@{calm_array_index}@@.

C.

Call an external Python eScript that uses an IPAM API to register the VM name in DNS.

D.

Set the VM Name field to allow user edits at launch so the user can enter a custom value at launch.

Question 2

Which two providers are supported in Calm? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Oracle Cloud

B.

Kubernetes

C.

GCP

D.

IBM Cloud

Question 3

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

Question 4

An application deployment failed, and a correction was implemented.

What is the most optimal way to correct the failed deployment?

Options:

A.

Redeploy the application.

B.

Create a Run book to retry.

C.

Rewrite blueprint to have error handling.

D.

Retry the failed deployment

Question 5

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

Question 6

What is the correct method to upgrade Calm?

Options:

A.

Calm Marketplace

B.

LCM via Prism Element

C.

LCM via Prism Central

D.

Calm Dashboard

Question 7

When a developer launches the created Blueprint within the Blueprint Editor, the application gets deployed correctly. However, when the Blueprint is launched via Marketplace, it gets a check login error.

What is causing this issue?

Options:

A.

Prism Central can't communicate with Active Directory.

B.

The SSH key within the user's laptop is not valid.

C.

User is not authorized to launch Blueprints.

D.

The credential in the Project Environment is invalid.

Question 8

Which Calm feature provides the ability for administrators to approve Single or Multi-VM Blueprints for assignment to Projects?

Options:

A.

Application Manager

B.

Marketplace

C.

Projects

D.

Marketplace Manager

Question 9

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

Question 10

Which products or features are dependencies of Calm? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Prism Central

B.

Data Service IP

C.

Prism Element

D.

Block Storage IP

Question 11

A Consumer has been tasked with deleting a running Calm managed application. How can the Consumer ensure all underlying VMS are deleted with the removal of the application?

Options:

A.

Go to the Manage tab of the application and select the Hard Delete action.

B.

From the Applications page, select the checkbox next to the application and select Delete from the action’s menu.

C.

From the Marketplace page, select the checkbox next to the application and select Delete from the actions menu.

D.

Go to the Manage tab of the application and select the Delete action.

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

An administrator manages two Nutanix clusters: Cluster01 and Cluster02 and has needs to automate similar workload types using these images that are located on Cluster01:

ImageA

ImageB

ImageC

The administrator needs to deploy ImageA and ImageC within the Cluster02 environment.

How this can be achieved?

Options:

A.

Configure a Protection Domain to replicate images.

B.

Clone the images from the Cluster01 to Cluster02.

C.

All images are available to all clusters managed by a single Prism Central.

D.

Utilize Prism Central image placement policies.

Question 15

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

Question 16

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.

Question 17

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.

Question 18

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.

Question 19

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.

Question 20

A developer updated a blueprint to ensure that the IP address of the VM is reserved in IPAM as part of the deployment process. The developer noticed that when new VMs are created, they still get a DHCP IP address and not a reserved IP address.

What is the most likely reason for this behavior?

Options:

A.

Developer created a pre-create task for reserving the IP address

B.

Developer created a post-create task for reserving the IP address

C.

Developer forgot to save the updated blueprint

D.

Developer forgot to publish the updated blueprint

Question 21

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

Question 22

Refer to the exhibit.

Calm encountered the error shown in the exhibit when importing a script that maps a network drive.

Upon further investigation, the Calm administrator was unable to run the script manually on a VM and discovered that elevated permissions were needed.

Which command should the administrator add to the script?

Options:

A.

Enable-WSManCredSSP -Role Server -Force

B.

Enable-WSManCredSSP -Role Client

C.

Enable-WSManCredSSP -Role Server

D.

Disable-WSManCredSSP -Role Server -Force

Question 23

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?

Options:

A.

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

B.

The image is corrupted.

C.

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

D.

The image has not been directly uploaded to the cluster

Question 24

An administrator is trying to delete a category, but the option is greyed out.

Which two conditions could be causing this issue? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

The category is system defined.

B.

The category is assigned to powered-on VMs.

C.

The category is part of a flow policy.

D.

The category is user defined.

Question 25

Which two statements are true regarding the Nutanix public Github repository? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Nutanix provides a documented process to seed Github based scripts into the Calm Task Library.

B.

Calm's public repository contains Nutanix-vetted custom scripts created and published by community members.

C.

Nutanix publishes official vetted blueprints and tasks to Nutanix's public Github Calm repository.

D.

Nutanix provides documented processes to seed scripts from any source repository.

Question 26

An administrator wants to create a blueprint for a development environment that uses an existing on-premise GitLab repository. Every new development environment requires a new user in the GitLab repo.

Which two tasks should the administrator perform within a Calm blueprint to automate this process? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Create an HTTP pre-create task to create the user in GitLab via REST API.

B.

Create runtime-editable variables for user and password in the blueprint.

C.

Add a task within the service in order to ask for user and password at runtime.

D.

Create a task script in order to login with ssh to GitLab and create a random user and password.

Question 27

An administrator has an existing set of VMs that were deployed before the company started using Calm. The administrator would like to now use Calm to manage those existing VMs.

What should the administrator do to manage the existing VMs?

Options:

A.

Create a Greenfield Application, select the snapshots of the VMs to manage and redeploy the VMs from the latest snapshot.

B.

Create a Brownfield Application, select the VMs that are needed for each deployment from the drop down list.

C.

Create a Greenfield Application, select the VMs that are needed for each deployment from the drop down list.

D.

Create a Brownfield Application, select the snapshots of the VMs to manage and redeploy the VMs from the latest snapshot.

Question 28

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

Question 29

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

Question 30

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.

Question 31

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?

Options:

A.

Manage

B.

Snapshots

C.

Recovery

Question 32

An Application team has provided an administrator the following high level requirements for infrastructure they require:

5 Application VMs

2 Database VMs

2 Web VMs

Which two pieces of information are needed, at a minimum, to effectively automate the scaling of the environment? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

SLA uptime of the application

B.

Steady state resource utilization

C.

Expected resource utilization under load

D.

If the application needs to be highly available

Question 33

Prism Central reporting indicates that there are multiple memory-constrained VMs in multiple clusters. The target VMs have Memory Hot Add enabled.

Using X-Play, in what order should the Playbook actions be added to ensure the VMs are properly remediated?

Options:

A.

VM add Memory, Take a VM Snapshot, Resolve Alert

B.

Take a VM Snapshot, Power Off VM, VM Add Memory, Resolve Alert, Power on VM

C.

Take a VM Snapshot, VM add Memory, Resolve Alert

D.

Power off VM, Take a VM Snapshot, VM add Memory, Resolve Alert

Question 34

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.

Question 35

Refer to the exhibit.

A customer has decided to enable Calm Showback feature but started to receive an alert in Prism Central stating that Calm showback is not able to reach beam service.

Which two configuration items should the administrator check to ensure Calm can communicate with Beam? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

DNS configuration in Prism Central

B.

Ensure Pulse is enabled

C.

Prism Element is configured with Proxy settings

D.

Flow is enabled in the same Prism Central

Question 36

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.

Question 37

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

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