Nutanix Certifications
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Prepare for Nutanix certifications with scenario-based practice exams. The Acropolis Distributed Storage Fabric (ADSF) and AHV virtualization, Prism Element and Prism Central management, storage containers with RF2/RF3 and erasure coding, compression and deduplication, VM management with live migration and Acropolis Dynamic Scheduling, data protection with protection domains, NearSync, and Nutanix DR, Life Cycle Manager upgrades and cluster expansion, AHV networking and Flow microsegmentation, and multicloud operations — explained in plain English with real-world hyperconverged infrastructure scenarios.
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Practice Exams
Recommended Path
Start with the Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI), the core HCI operations certification.
Associate / Intermediate
1 certNutanix Certified Associate (NCA)
Master the Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA 7.5) exam - the foundational Nutanix credential built on AOS 7.5, AHV 11.0, and Prism Central pc.7.5: recognizing Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure and the wider portfolio (Unified Storage, Database Service, Cloud Manager, Kubernetes Platform, Enterprise AI, and End-User Computing) and the Nutanix tools (Move, Nutanix Guest Tools, Foundation, Witness, Self-Service Restore, X-Ray, and Collector); administering the platform in Prism - virtual machines, categories, snapshots, subnets and virtual switches, storage optimizations and redundancy factors, and licensing; configuring and maintaining clusters with DNS, NTP, SMTP, and SNMP, fault tolerance, security, node maintenance mode, and Life Cycle Manager upgrades; and understanding platform health and monitoring with NCC, Pulse, Insights, alerts, and workload performance.
Expert / Professional
7 certsNutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI)
Master the Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI 7.5) exam - operating a Nutanix AOS cluster with Prism: deploying and configuring clusters with Foundation, redundancy factor RF2 and RF3, and node, block, and rack fault domains; managing Prism Central, categories, and Playbooks; configuring AHV networking with Open vSwitch, uplink bond modes, VLANs, IPAM, and Flow microsegmentation; managing storage pools, storage containers, compression, deduplication, and EC-X erasure coding; managing AHV virtual machines with live migration, HA, and Acropolis Dynamic Scheduling; protecting data with Protection Domains, NearSync, Metro Availability, and Nutanix Disaster Recovery; upgrading with Life Cycle Manager; and monitoring, capacity planning, and troubleshooting with Prism, NCC, ncli, and acli.
Nutanix Certified Professional - Unified Storage (NCP-US)
Master the Nutanix Certified Professional - Unified Storage (NCP-US 6.10) exam - the storage-services specialty for Nutanix Files, Objects, and Volumes: deploying and sizing a scale-out Nutanix Files server with a minimum of three FSVMs, distributed and standard SMB and NFS shares, quotas, and self-service restore; deploying Nutanix Objects with S3-compatible buckets, access keys, versioning, WORM Object Lock, and lifecycle rules; configuring Nutanix Volumes iSCSI Volume Groups with the Data Services IP, CHAP, and multipathing; securing and analyzing data with File Analytics and Data Lens; protecting data with Smart DR for Files, Objects bucket replication, and Volume Group snapshots; and troubleshooting share access, S3 endpoints, iSCSI connectivity, and failed Life Cycle Manager upgrades.
Nutanix Certified Professional - Database Automation (NCP-DB)
Master the Nutanix Certified Professional - Database Automation (NCP-DB 6.10) exam - the database-lifecycle-automation specialty for Nutanix Database Service (NDB, formerly Era): the NDB concepts and object model; deploying and configuring an NDB control plane with High Availability behind API servers and HAProxy; registering database-server VMs and databases and provisioning Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, EDB, and MongoDB across software, compute, network, and database-parameter profiles; testing and publishing database patches, applying Linux OS patches, and upgrading databases; protecting data with Time Machine using SLA retention policies, clones, clone refresh, source-database restore, and Data Access Management (DAM) policies; monitoring alerts and storage usage; and administering profiles, software upgrades, added clusters, networks, access controls, and the NDB REST API and CLI.
Nutanix Certified Professional - Cloud Integration - AWS (NCP-CI-AWS)
Master the Nutanix Certified Professional - Cloud Integration - AWS (NCP-CI-AWS) exam - the hybrid-cloud specialty for running Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on AWS: preparing the AWS cloud environment and subscribing to NC2; onboarding the AWS cloud account with the Nutanix CloudFormation stack and cross-account IAM roles; sizing EC2 bare-metal instances, node counts, service quotas, and region and Availability Zone capacity; planning VPC, subnet, and CIDR networking with Direct Connect or Site-to-Site VPN; deploying an NC2 cluster through the NC2 console and troubleshooting deployment failures; configuring native AWS networking and security groups versus Flow Virtual Networking overlay with a transit VPC and Flow Gateway; managing nodes and clusters with expansion, hibernate and resume, LCM upgrades, and controlled termination; and monitoring cluster and cloud resource health with protection and disaster recovery through Nutanix DR, Cluster Protect, and Nutanix Move.
Nutanix Certified Professional - Artificial Intelligence (NCP-AI)
Master the Nutanix Certified Professional - Artificial Intelligence (NCP-AI 6.10) exam - the AI-infrastructure certification for deploying and operating Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI 2.3): validating installation prerequisites and installing NAI on the NKP App Catalog or non-NKP Kubernetes (including dark-site deployments, version compatibility, and required storage classes); configuring DNS, the FQDN, and certificates for the NAI UI; onboarding users with least-privilege roles; importing large language models from Hugging Face and NVIDIA NGC; creating GPU-backed inference endpoints with the right GPU count and type, instance count, and inference engine; creating and managing endpoint API keys; delivering endpoint URIs and keys to consumers; running day-2 operations across observability metrics, access-activity monitoring, audit events, and model output-quality tuning with guardrail and reranking models; troubleshooting performance, GPU utilization, cluster health-check failures, and model-import and endpoint-creation failures; and connecting OpenAI-compatible applications through Python and curl.
Nutanix Certified Professional - Network & Security (NCP-NS)
Master the Nutanix Certified Professional - Network & Security (NCP-NS 7.5) exam for the NCP-NS 7 credential: configure Flow Virtual Networking 6.0 and Flow Network Security 5.2 through Prism Central 7.3, then troubleshoot connectivity, policy, identity, logging, gateway, controller, MTU, deployment, upgrade, and RBAC decisions.
Nutanix Certified Professional - Business Continuity (NCP-BC)
Master the Nutanix Certified Professional - Business Continuity (NCP-BC) 7.5 exam for the NCP-BC 7 credential: translate BCDR requirements into Nutanix Disaster Recovery and Prism Central pc.7.5 designs, test failover and connectivity evidence, execute recovery and cleanup, migrate legacy Protection Domains, and troubleshoot DR failures.
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