Mar 12, 2026 Detailed New NCP-MCA Exam Questions for Concept Clearance
NCP-MCA Exam Preparation Material with New NCP-MCA Dumps Questions.
NEW QUESTION # 13
Within an HTTP task, which configuration allows Self-Service to retry a failed task?
- A. Approval Policy
- B. Retry Count
- C. Timeout Interval
- D. Retry Interval
Answer: B
Explanation:
According to the Self-Service Blueprint and Task configuration settings, the specific parameter that enables and controls the number of retries for a failed task is theRetry Count.
* Retry Count:This integer value determines how many times the system will attempt to re-execute the task if it returns a failure status. If this is set to 0 (default in some views), no retries occur. Setting it to a value of 1 or higher enables the retry logic.
* Retry Interval (Option A):This setting defines thewait time(in seconds) between the attempts, but without a positiveRetry Count, the interval is irrelevant.
* Timeout (Option B):This defines how long the system waits for a single attempt to complete before marking it as failed.
NEW QUESTION # 14
A customer is trying to deploy an application with Calm and receives this error for a Linux VM:
What is the cause of this error within the blueprint?
- A. Connection Type has no protocol selected.
- B. Connection section has no network adapters selected for the Address box in Connection section.
- C. Connection Type has a protocol selected.
- D. Connection section has a network adapter selected for the Address box in Connection section.
Answer: B
Explanation:
In the context of deploying an application with Calm, if a customer receives an error for a Linux VM, it could be due to the absence of network adapters selected for the Address box in the Connection section within the blueprint. This means that there is no specified network connection for the VM, leading to a failure in script execution.
Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA) Exam Blueprint Guide: This is the official exam blueprint guide that covers the objectives, topics, and skills required for the certification. It also provides some sample questions and answers. The question you asked is similar to the one in section 3.1.1.
Nutanix Multicloud Automation Administration (NMCAA): This is a training course that teaches you the skills needed to install, configure, operate, and manage Nutanix X-Play and Nutanix Calm. It includes topics such as blueprint creation, connection configuration, and script execution.
Nutanix Calm User Guide: This is a user guide that explains how to use Nutanix Calm to automate the deployment and management of applications across different environments. It includes topics such as connection settings, blueprint validation, and error handling.
NEW QUESTION # 15
An administrator needs to reduce the number of vCPUs in a VM on the following Sunday at1:00AM.
How can the administrator automate this task?
- A. Create a playbook triggered with an alert.
- B. Create a playbook triggered at a specified time.
- C. Create a runbook triggered with an alert.
- D. Create a script to call a REST API and configure a cron job.
Answer: B
Explanation:
To automate the reduction of vCPUs in a VM on a specific schedule, the administrator should create a playbook triggered at a specified time. This playbook can be scheduled to run at 1:00 AM on the following Sunday and perform the task of reducing the number of vCPUs in the VM.
Reference:
Nutanix documentation on Playbook Scheduling.
Nutanix Best Practices for Automating VM Tasks.
NEW QUESTION # 16
How should an administrator enable Calm?
- A. Prism Element -> LCM -> Calm -> Enable
- B. Prism Central -> Services -> Calm -> Enable
- C. Prism Central -> Settings -> Calm -> Enable
- D. Prism Central -> Settings -> Upgrade Prism Central -> Calm -> Enable
Answer: B
Explanation:
To enable Calm, the administrator needs to log on to Prism Central with a local ADMIN account and click Services -> Calm -> Enable. This will install the Calm service on Prism Central and allow the administrator to access the Calm UI and features. The other options are incorrect because they either refer to Prism Element, which is not the correct platform for Calm, or they involve unnecessary or incorrect steps. Reference: [Enabling and Accessing Calm | Nutanix Community] (https://next.nutanix.com/installation-configuration-23/enabling-and-accessing-calm-40191); [Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA) Exam Blueprint Guide] (https://www.nutanix.com/content/dam/nutanix/resources/support/ds-ncp-mca.pdf), section 2.1.
NEW QUESTION # 17
What role must a user have in order to create or update a Playbook?
- A. Calm Admin
- B. Calm Developer
- C. Prism Admin
- D. Project Admin
Answer: B
Explanation:
A Calm Developer is a role that allows a user to create, update, and execute Playbooks in Calm. A Playbook is a collection of Tasks that can be executed on one or more Targets, such as VMs, applications, or services. A Calm Developer can also create and use Runbooks, Blueprints, and Library items in Calm. A Prism Admin is a role that allows a user to manage the Prism Central instance and its features, such as users, roles, alerts, policies, etc. A Calm Admin is a role that allows a user to manage the Calm service and its settings, such as endpoints, credentials, projects, etc. A Project Admin is a role that allows a user to manage a specific project and its resources, such as applications, Blueprints, Runbooks, etc. References:
* Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA) Exam Blueprint Guide, page 14, section 4.1.1
* Nutanix Calm Roles and Permissions
* Nutanix Calm Playbooks
NEW QUESTION # 18
Which feature allows for publishing blueprints for consumption?
- A. Self-Service DSL - Infrastructure-as-Code
- B. Marketplace and Application Management
- C. Application Development and Modernization
- D. Unified Multi-Cloud Orchestration
Answer: B
Explanation:
The feature within Nutanix Self-Service (Calm) designed specifically for publishing blueprints to end-users is theMarketplace.
* Marketplace:This component acts as an app store for the organization. Administrators and developers create Blueprints and thenpublishthem to the Marketplace.
* Process:The "Marketplace and Application Management" capability encompasses the workflow of submitting a blueprint for approval, versioning it, and making it visible to users based on their Project entitlements.
* Consumption:Once published, users do not access the raw blueprint design canvas; instead, they access the Marketplace Item to launch (consume) the application.
* While "Unified Multi-Cloud Orchestration" describes the platform's broad goal, and "DSL" is a method for creating code-based blueprints, "Marketplace" is the specific functional area for publishing and consumption.
NEW QUESTION # 19
A customer is trying to deploy an application with Calm and receives this error for a Linux VM:
What is the cause of this error within the blueprint?
- A. Connection Type has a protocol selected.
- B. Connection section has no network adapters selected for the Address box in Connection section.
- C. Connection Type has no protocol selected.
- D. Connection section has a network adapter selected for the Address box in Connection section.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION # 20
An administrator has run a multi-step Playbook. but sees the Failed status, as shown in the exhibit.
What could be causing the playbook to fail?
- A. puppet action has a timeout of 5 minutes.
- B. VM action has a timeout of 5 minutes.
- C. PowerShell action has a timeout of 5 minutes.
- D. IP Address SSH action has a timeout of 5 minutes.
Answer: D
Explanation:
The image shows a failed status for an SSH_VM_Task, which is manually triggered. Since the task involves SSH, it's likely that the IP Address SSH action has a timeout of 5 minutes, causing the playbook to fail if it cannot complete within this time frame. The IP Address SSH action is used to execute commands on a remote VM using SSH. It requires the IP address, username, password, and command to run as inputs. The timeout parameter specifies how long the action will wait for the command to finish before aborting. If the timeout is too short, the action may fail due to network latency, slow execution, or other factors. Reference:
Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA) 6.5 Exam, page 16, section 1.3.2.2: "Playbooks"
[Nutanix University: NCP-MCA 6.5 Exam Prep - Playbooks], video 4: "Playbooks"
NEW QUESTION # 21
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?
- A. The platform Sync Service will remove the application.
- B. In the Audit view of the application, click Retry
- C. Execute the Delete action again, the second run will ignore the error.
- D. Execute the Soft Delete action to ignore the provide substrate.
Answer: D
Explanation:
When a VM managed by Self-Service (formerly Calm) is deleted manually from Prism Central, the associated application in Self-Service cannot be deleted using the standard delete action because the substrate is no longer present. In this scenario, the administrator should use the "Soft Delete" action in Self-Service, which will remove the application from management without requiring the substrate to be present.
References:
* Nutanix documentation on Soft Delete.
* Nutanix Best Practices for Managing Self-Service Applications.
NEW QUESTION # 22
In which two locations can an administrator look to view a list of executed playbooks? (Choose two.)
- A. Dashboard
- B. Lists
- C. Executions
- D. Plays
Answer: C,D
NEW QUESTION # 23
What is an optional field when creating a Runbook?
- A. Default Endpoint
- B. Task Name
- C. Project
- D. Name
Answer: A
Explanation:
When creating a Runbook in Nutanix Calm, the "Default Endpoint" field is optional. Essential fields such as Name, Project, and Task Name are required to define the Runbook's structure and execution parameters. The Default Endpoint can be specified if there is a preferred initial endpoint for executing tasks, but it is not mandatory.
References:
* Nutanix Calm documentation on Runbook Creation.
* Nutanix Best Practices for Runbook Management.
NEW QUESTION # 24
What are the two Calm SaaS API Key components? (Choose two.)
- A. JSON file
- B. Token
- C. Name
- D. SaaS Token
Answer: B,C
Explanation:
The Calm SaaS API key consists of two components: name and token. The name component is analogous to the ID or username you provide when you configure your Calm tunnel client VM to establish the tunnel connection. The token component is analogous to the password portion of the HTTP basic authentication. The Calm SaaS API key is used along with the Calm APIs and Calm DSL to access Calm. The API key file that you download will have the name and token components in the JSON format. References: Nutanix Support & Insights
NEW QUESTION # 25
Which products or features are dependencies of Calm? (Choose two.)
- A. Prism Central
- B. Prism Element
- C. Block Storage IP
- D. Data Service IP
Answer: A,B
Explanation:
Nutanix Calm is a feature of Prism Central that enables you to automate the deployment and management of infrastructure and applications across multiple clouds. Prism Central is a centralized management plane that provides unified visibility and control over Nutanix clusters and services. Prism Element is the local management plane for each Nutanix cluster that runs the Acropolis Operating System (AOS). Both Prism Central and Prism Element are required for Nutanix Calm to function properly and access the resources and services of the Nutanix platform. References:
* Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA) v6.5, Section 2 - Deploy and Configure Nutanix Calm and Related Components, page 1
* Nutanix Multicloud Automation Administration (NMCAA), Module 1 - Introduction to Nutanix Multicloud Automation, Lesson 1.1 - Nutanix Multicloud Automation Overview, page 4
* Nutanix Calm User Guide, Introduction to Nutanix Calm, Nutanix Calm Architecture
NEW QUESTION # 26
Which Prism Central setting must first be configured in order to add users to a Project?
- A. Authentication Directory
- B. Local User Role Mapping
- C. Pulse
- D. HTTP Proxy
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 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.)
- A. Memory can be removed from 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. CPU can be added to a powered on VM if the guest OS supports it
Answer: B,D
NEW QUESTION # 28
There is a category called Protection and it has five values:
* snap_1_hr
* snap_6_hr
* snap_24_hr
* sync_remote_repl
* async_1hr_repl
An administrator would like to be sure that within the Engineering Project all development VMs have daily snapshots and all production VMs have asynchronous remote replication (every 1 hour).
How can this task be accomplished?
- A. Create a Playbook to assign the category Protection: async_1hr_repl to production VMs and Protection:
snap_24_hr to development VMs, the trigger should be Created VM. - B. Create an environment for development and another one for production in the project, then assign the category Protection: async_1hr_repl for production and Protection: snap_24_hr for development.
- C. Create an environment for development and another one for production in the project, and assign the category Protection: sync_remote_repl for production and Protection: snap_1_hr for development.
- D. Create a Playbook to assign the category Protection: snap_1_hr to production VMs and Protection:
snap_24_hr to development VMs, the trigger should be Created VM.
Answer: B
Explanation:
To enforce different configurations for different types of workloads within the same Project, Nutanix Self- Service usesEnvironments.
* Environments:These are logical configurations within a Project that map to specific infrastructure settings. An administrator can define multiple environments (e.g., "Development" and "Production") within the "Engineering" project.
* Category Assignment:Within each Environment configuration, the administrator can define specific VM Categoriesthat will be automatically applied to any VM provisioned into that environment.
* Mapping:
* Production Environment:Assign the category Protection: async_1hr_repl (Matches requirement: Asynchronous remote replication every 1 hour).
* Development Environment:Assign the category Protection: snap_24_hr (Matches requirement:
Daily snapshots).
* Execution:When a user launches a blueprint, they select the target Environment (Dev or Prod). The system automatically tags the VMs with the categories defined in that environment, which in turn engages the Protection Policies associated with those tags.
Option B uses the wrong category values (sync_remote_repl instead of async). Options C and D suggest using Playbooks, but the native and most efficient method for applying deployment-time governance in Self-Service is via theProject Environmentsettings.
NEW QUESTION # 29
What is required to enable Self-Service access for users?
- A. Assigning RBAC roles
- B. Uploading a VM Image
- C. Creating an Environment
- D. Configuring a scheduler job
Answer: A
Explanation:
To provide users with access to Nutanix Self-Service (formerly Calm), an administrator must configure Role- Based Access Control (RBAC) within the context of a Project.
Access to Self-Service is not global; it is defined at the Project level.1An administrator must:
* Add the user (or their Active Directory group) to a Project.
* Assign a Roleto that user within the project.
* Project Admin:Full control over the project.2
* Developer:Can create blueprints and applications.
* Consumer:Can only launch blueprints available in the Marketplace.3
* Operator:Can perform day-2 operations on existing applications.4
Without an assigned role in a project, a user cannot access the Self-Service portal features or view any blueprints.
NEW QUESTION # 30
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.
How can the developer resolve this issue?
- A. Add the administrator to the Project Admin role.
- B. Add the administrator to the Developer role.
- C. Share the variable type with the Project.
- D. Publish the variable type to Marketplace.
Answer: D
Explanation:
To make a custom variable type available for all deployments, the developer should publish the variable type to the Marketplace. By publishing it to the Marketplace, the variable type becomes accessible to all administrators and users across different projects, ensuring consistency and reusability.
References:
* Nutanix Calm documentation on Publishing to Marketplace.
* Nutanix Best Practices for Variable Management.
NEW QUESTION # 31
An administrator wants to be alerted when production VMs become idle. The VMs will be determined to be idle when CPU usage is lower than 5% for more than 5 minutes. All affected VMs are categorized as Environment:Production, since they have Flow microsegmentation rules.
What should the administrator do to satisfy this requirement?
- A. Create an alert for all VMs, create a Playbook with this alert as the trigger > reduce 1 CPU > send an email as the action.
- B. Create an alert for VMs in the correct category, create a Playbook with this alert as the trigger and send an email as the action.
- C. Create an alert for VMs in the correct category, create a Playbook with this alert as the trigger > take a snapshot > send an email as the action.
- D. Create an alert for all VMs, create a Playbook with this alert as the trigger and send an email as the action.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 32
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