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

Question # 4

What two pieces of information can an administrator obtain from Plays? (Choose two.)

A.

Host where the action runs

B.

Start time and end time of each action

C.

Execution result status

D.

CVM IP where the alert was triggered

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Question # 5

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

A.

Project Environments

B.

Project Quotas

C.

Runbooks

D.

Policy Engine

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Question # 6

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?

A.

vpc

B.

Site-to-Site VPN Tunnel

C.

VPN Client

D.

Tunnel Entity

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Question # 7

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.

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

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Question # 8

Which two providers does Calm integrate natively with? (Choose two.)

A.

AWS

B.

Alibaba

C.

AHV

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Question # 9

A developer has a Development Blueprint that performs the following high level items:

Creates a Windows and Ubuntu Server.

Installs IIS on Windows

Installs MySQL on Ubuntu

As part of Development, there is a need for an Operator to restart IIS Services for troubleshooting purposes.

How should the developer add this functionality to the Blueprint?

A.

Add an Execute Task in the Restart Action of the Application Profile.

B.

Add an Execute Task in the Restart Action of the Windows/IIS Service.

C.

Add a Delay Task in the Restart Action of the Windows/IIS Service.

D.

Create an Endpoint for the IIS server and a Runbook that restarts the service.

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Question # 10

What is the correct syntax for using a macro within a Calm blueprint?

A.

@@{calm.object}(@@

B.

%calm.object%

C.

{{calm.object}}

D.

$_calm.object_$

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Question # 11

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

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.

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Question # 12

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

A.

AMIS tab

B.

Snapshot tab

C.

Recovery point tab

D.

Manage tab.

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Question # 13

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?

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.

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Question # 14

What should be done to scale out an existing Calm environment?

A.

Create new prism Central Scale-Out VMS end enable Calm within the GUI,

B.

Back up the data and create three Calm VMS from the Calm VM QCOW2 image.

C.

Run cluster destroy on the VM that will be the master Calm VM.

D.

Beck up the data and create three Calm VMS from the Calm VM OVA template.

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Question # 15

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?

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.

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Question # 16

An application deployment failed, and a correction was implemented.

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

A.

Redeploy the application.

B.

Create a Run book to retry.

C.

Rewrite blueprint to have error handling.

D.

Retry the failed deployment

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Question # 17

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?

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.

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Question # 18

Which two platforms does Calm support for Cost Showback? (Choose two.)

A.

SCVMM

B.

vCenter

C.

AHV

D.

AWS Account

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Question # 19

How should an administrator enable Calm?

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

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Question # 20

An administrator has noticed an increasing number of inactive VMS being left powered on within the environment over the course of OS migrations, using Playbooks, which two Actions should the administrator use to start documenting which VMS are marked as inactive to take future Automated actions on? (Choose two.)

A.

Assign the VMS to an Inactive:VM Category as an Action.

B.

Trigger Playbook on Powered Off VM for all applicable VMS.

C.

Trigger Playbook on Alert with the Inactive VM Alert Policy.

D.

Send an Email with the Source Entity Name Parameter in the body.

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Question # 21

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?

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

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Question # 22

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?

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

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Question # 23

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?

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.

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Question # 24

Refer to the exhibit.

An administrator created the Playbook shown in the exhibit to allow for manual reduction of vCPU count on any selected VM within their environment. During a test run of the play on one of the VMs running in development, the administrator ran into an error that the Playbook cannot be completed against the selected VM.

Here are the details of the affected VM:

VM Name: VM2

vCPU: 4

RAM: 8 GB

OS: Windows 2016

Hypervisor: AHV

What caused this Playbook to fail?

A.

This play cannot be executed against a VM on AHV.

B.

The VM needs to be powered off before vCPU can be reduced.

C.

Reduction of vCPU cannot be done on a VM with a running snapshot.

D.

The play will cause the VM to go below the minimum vCPU.

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Question # 25

An end user for an application that has been assigned the Consumer role within the project has noticed multiple issues with a blueprint that need to be addressed. The decision has been made to bring the end user onto the team to be able to modify the blueprints for this project.

Using the concept of least privilege, what role should the end user be assigned?

A.

Developer

B.

Project Admin

C.

Consumer

D.

Operator

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Question # 26

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

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

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Question # 27

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

A.

SaaS Token

B.

Token

C.

JSON file

D.

Name

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Question # 28

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 section has a network adapter selected for the Address box in Connection section.

B.

Connection section has no network adapters selected for the Address box in Connection section.

C.

Connection Type has a protocol selected.

D.

Connection Type has no protocol selected.

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Question # 29

Where can an administrator view the last two actions taken by a single VM blueprint?

A.

AMIS tab

B.

service tab

C.

Metrics tab

D.

History Tab

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Question # 30

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

A.

Calm Developer

B.

Prism Admin

C.

Calm Admin

D.

Project Admin

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Question # 31

An administrator needs to send a notification to the on-call administrator if a specific mission-critical VM is rebooted after hours, as well as send an email to the Operations team for any other VMS that reboot.

What two actions should the administrator take to accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

A.

use Conditional Playbook

B.

Create Playbook using Manual Trigger

C.

Create Playbook using Alert.

D.

Use Branch Action

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Question # 32

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?

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.

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Question # 33

An administrator has been asked to review and clean up all existing categories within the Nutanix environment.

What information should the administrator filter on to organize the findings and eliminate unused categories?

A.

Policies, Triggers, Categories, and Entities

B.

Blueprint, Triggers, Categories, and Polices

C.

Blueprint, Policies, Value, and Entities

D.

Name, Value, Entities, and Policies

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Question # 34

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?

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.

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Question # 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?

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

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Question # 36

An administrator has built a Playbook to run a Powershell script in a VM when a specific alert is generated. Several days later, the alert is generated, but the script does not execute and there are no Plays recorded for the Playbook.

What is causing this issue?

A.

The Playbook was never enabled.

B.

The version of Playbooks is not correct for the version of Prism Central.

C.

The script executed, but closed with an error code.

D.

The path to the script was not correct.

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Question # 37

Refer to the exhibit.

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

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

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