NCP-MCA
75 questions 120 min Pass: 3000 / 6000 Official Nutanix Website Nutanix University
About this course
Target exam: Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation (NCP-MCA) 6.10
Software under test:
- Self-Service 4.0
- Intelligent Operations pc2024.3
- Prism Central vpc2024.3 / vpc2024.3.1
Exam facts:
- 75 multiple-choice / multiple-response questions
- 120 minutes
- passing score 3000 (scaled 1000–6000)
- English & Japanese
- $200 USD
- valid 3 years
- recommended training: Nutanix Multicloud Automation Administration (NMCAA, ~80% coverage)
Delivered in 3 lots (one per blueprint Section). Each lot is a full course chapter set plus its share of the 300-question practice bank - all in English, grounded in the official Nutanix reference corpus. The hierarchy is 1:1 and auditable: 3 sections · 12 objectives · 12 chapters · 48 subsections, where Chapter N = Objective X.Y = question-bank prefix PP.
How this course is built
Each chapter maps to exactly one blueprint objective, and every subsection follows the same frame, so it doubles as a study guide and a revision checklist:
- Why it matters - the exam relevance of the subsection.
- How it works - the concept explained version-accurately to Self-Service 4.0 / Intelligent Operations pc2024.3 / Prism Central vpc2024.3.
- Exam pitfalls - the traps and confusions the exam likes to test.
- Key facts - a condensed revision box.
- Source - the exact corpus documents the subsection is grounded in.
The practice questions: 300 items, 25 per objective, exactly 4 options each with one correct answer, balanced A/B/C/D, every answer explained and tagged with its objective. Version-sensitive facts were re-verified against the live Nutanix Support Portal (pc2024.3 / Self-Service 4.0). Any point that could not be confirmed against the corpus is flagged ⚠️ rather than invented.
Preparation course
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Part I - Describe and Differentiate Automation Concepts and Principles
- 1.1 Logical steps to automate a manual process
- 1.2 Self-Service pre-provisioning tasks (Pre-create / Post-create / Post-delete)
- 1.3 Ordering and control tasks (Delay, VM Power in runbooks)
- 1.4 Choosing Playbooks vs Runbooks vs Blueprints
- 2.1 Playbook triggers (Alert, Alerts Matching Criteria, Event, Manual, Time, Webhook)
- 2.2 Building a playbook: setting a trigger and defining actions (X-Play)
- 2.3 Playbooks across multiple infrastructure resources
- 2.4 Integrating Playbooks with Self-Service automation
- 3.1 Action gallery and action categories
- 3.2 Alerts and manual triggers
- 3.3 Third-party integrations
- 3.4 Manual parameters and pre-seeded apps
- 4.1 Categories fundamentals (key:value)
- 4.2 Creating and configuring categories
- 4.3 Effects of categories: policy application to VMs
- 4.4 VM-Host affinity policies and categories
- 5.1 Projects fundamentals and capabilities
- 5.2 RBAC in a project (Project Admin, Developer, Consumer, Operator)
- 5.3 Quotas and the policy engine
- 5.4 Assigning infrastructure and environments to a project
Part II - Deploy and Configure Self-Service and Related Components
- 6.1 Single-VM vs multi-VM blueprints and substrates
- 6.2 Tasks, packages (install/uninstall), and script types
- 6.3 Day-two actions and scale in/out
- 6.4 Built-in macros and app profiles in blueprints
- 7.1 Managing the application lifecycle
- 7.2 Scale-out and scale-in a managed application
- 7.3 Retiring a managed application
- 7.4 Executing tasks and runbooks against apps
- 8.1 Providers and provider accounts
- 8.2 Environments and account-to-project association
- 8.3 Endpoints and the task library
- 8.4 Marketplace capabilities
- 9.1 Task types catalog
- 9.2 Macros syntax and dependencies
- 9.3 App profiles and infrastructure requirements
- 9.4 Approval policies and scheduler
- 10.1 Key capabilities and use cases
- 10.2 Requirements and prerequisites
- 10.3 Benchmarks and deployment profiles
- 10.4 Deployment methodology and enablement
Part III - Validate Blueprints, Runbooks, Playbooks, and Automation Settings
- 11.1 Validating playbook configuration (symptoms and fixes)
- 11.2 Playbooks summary view and reports
- 11.3 Correct project configuration for a requirement
- 11.4 Branch action and conditional execution
Training
Source corpus mapping
| Document | Primary objectives served |
|---|---|
| ds-ebg-ncp-mca (Exam Blueprint Guide) | Structure / weighting (all) |
| Self-Service Administration and Operations Guide v4.0 | 1.1, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1–2.5, 3.1, 3.2 |
| Document | Primary objectives served |
|---|---|
| Intelligent Operations Guide vpc2024.3 (X-Play / Playbooks) | 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 3.2 |
| Prism Central Guide vpc2024.3.1 | 1.4 (Categories, VM-Host Affinity), 1.5 (Project Management) |