Nutanix NCP-MCA Practice Questions

An administrator has an existing set of VMs that were deployed before the company started using Calm. The administrator would like to now use Calm to manage those existing VMs.
What should the administrator do to manage the existing VMs?

A. Create a Greenfield Application, select the snapshots of the VMs to manage and redeploy the VMs from the latest snapshot.

B. Create a Brownfield Application, select the VMs that are needed for each deployment from the drop down list.

C. Create a Greenfield Application, select the VMs that are needed for each deployment from the drop down list.

D. Create a Brownfield Application, select the snapshots of the VMs to manage and redeploy the VMs from the latest snapshot.

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.

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

A director would like to have an up to date Cluster Efficiency Summary report emailed on the first of every month to keep management up to date on how the cluster is being utilized.
How could a playbook be configured to satisfy this request with the least human interaction?

A. Manual Trigger > Wait Until Day of Month > Generate Report > Email

B. Manual Trigger > Generate Report > Email

C. Report Trigger > Wait Until Day of Month > Email

D. Time Trigger > Generate Report > Email

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

Refer to the exhibit.



A subset of Linux VMs are required to be gracefully shutdown each evening. A Playbook is created to shutdown the targeted VMs, however the error message shown in the exhibit is displayed when the Playbook is executed.
What is causing the error message?

A. User executing the Playbook does not have Admin privileges.

B. The VM is already powered off.

C. The VM is missing Nutanix Guest Tools.

D. The SSH Service is not running on the VMs.