Nutanix NCA-V6-10 Practice Test

Skills this practice test covers

• Run an LCM inventory and plan AOS, hypervisor and firmware updates around their dependencies.
• Run Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) before an upgrade and clear its warnings and failures first.
• Create, clone and snapshot VMs, and build a template from a powered-off VM.
• Set up storage containers and pick a replication factor that the cluster's node count supports.
• Create alert policies, review events and upload logs to a Nutanix support ticket.
• Configure cluster lockdown, data-at-rest encryption, VLANs and block or rack awareness.

4 domains · 28 topics · 220 of 224 questions sorted by domain

Requirements

• No formal prerequisites: anyone can book the exam.
• Recommended: three to six months with Nutanix virtualization and six to twelve months of general IT infrastructure experience.
• Recommended: the Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Fundamentals (NHCF) course.
• Recommended: practical use of Prism Element and Prism Central, and a basic grasp of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI).

About the NCA-V6-10 exam

How to earn the certification

Earns

Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA)Associate

After

• NCP-MCI-6-10 Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure 6.10

  The professional exam that follows NCA in the multicloud infrastructure track, on the same 6.10 release.

• NCM-MCI Nutanix Certified Master - Multicloud Infrastructure

  The master level of the same track. Nutanix asks for an active professional-level certification before it.

How to prepare for NCA-V6-10

1. 1

   Check the version on the booking page

   This practice test follows the 6.10 objectives, written for AOS 6.10 and Prism Central pc2024.2. Confirm that the exam being booked is the same version before planning study time.

2. 2

   Rehearse an upgrade with LCM and NCC

   Run NCC, then an LCM inventory, and read the dependencies of each offered update. Follow the upgrade in Prism and run NCC again afterwards to confirm the cluster is healthy.

3. 3

   Drill VM and storage tasks by hand

   Basic administration has the most questions in the practice test. On a lab or test cluster, create, clone and snapshot VMs, build a template, and create storage containers with RF2 and RF3.

4. 4

   Compare the security and resiliency options

   Write down what cluster lockdown, SSH access control and data-at-rest encryption each protect. Then note what block awareness, rack awareness and RF3 need from the cluster's hardware.

5. 5

   Close with a timed full run

   Take the NCA-V6-10 practice test in Timed Mode once all four sections feel solid. Review each wrong answer and ask Brainy AI Assistant to explain the setting behind it, such as an alert threshold or a replication factor.

   Start a timed NCA-V6-10run

Nutanix's recommended course for this exam is Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Fundamentals (NHCF).

Who NCA-V6-10 is for

• Systems administrators and IT operators who run Nutanix clusters on AOS 6.10.
• Virtualization and infrastructure engineers who are new to Nutanix.
• Technical support staff who handle health checks, alerts and support tickets.

Typical job titles: Systems administrator · IT operator · Virtualization engineer · Infrastructure engineer · Technical support engineer · Cloud engineer

NCA-V6-10 glossary

17 terms from the exam objectives and the vendor's official material, each defined in a sentence.

AHV

The Nutanix hypervisor, included with AOS, that runs the cluster's virtual machines.

AOS

The Nutanix operating system that runs on every node and provides the cluster's storage and services.

Block awareness

Spreading data copies across blocks, so a cluster loses no data when one whole block goes down.

Cluster lockdown

A security setting that turns off password logins over SSH, so only users with approved keys can connect.

Data-at-Rest Encryption

Encryption of the data stored on a cluster's drives, so that a removed drive cannot be read without the keys.

Distributed Storage Fabric

The Nutanix storage layer that joins the disks of all nodes into one shared pool of storage.

Life Cycle Manager (LCM)

The Nutanix tool that takes an inventory of a cluster's software and firmware and applies the available updates.

Metro Availability

A Nutanix feature that copies data synchronously between two sites, so VMs can restart at the other site if one site fails.

Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC)

The Nutanix health check tool that tests cluster components and reports which checks pass, warn or fail.

Prism Central

A Nutanix console for managing and monitoring many clusters, and the VMs on them, from one place.

Prism Element

The web console built into each Nutanix cluster, used to manage that single cluster.

Protection domains

Groups of VMs that Nutanix protects together, with shared snapshot and replication schedules.

Pulse

A Nutanix feature that sends cluster telemetry to Nutanix, so that support can spot problems early and NCC stays current.

Rack awareness

Placing data copies across racks, so that the cluster survives the loss of a whole rack.

Replication factor (RF)

The number of copies of data that the cluster keeps: two copies with RF2 and three with RF3.

Storage pools

Groups of a cluster's physical disks from which storage containers take their capacity.

Storage-only nodes

Nodes that add disk capacity to a cluster but do not run user VMs.