NCP-MCA 75q

Exam Code: NCP-MCA Exam Name: Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation
Q1
In order to give Consumers the ability to modify attributes, what should the Blueprint creator implement in
the design?
A. Custom actions
B. eScript task with custom macros
C. Runtime variables
D. HTTP task with built-in macros
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Calm-Admin-Operations-Guide-v3_2
_7:nuc-nucalm-blueprint-management-c.html
Q2
Refer to the exhibit.
However, it keeps failing.
Why is this Playbook continuing to fail?
A. Slack configuration should be reviewed.

B. The script is incorrect.
C. The Playbook actions are in the wrong order.
D. Not enough storage space in order to take a snapshot.
Answer: C
Explanation:
Q3
Which action should an administrator use to request a static IP address from an IPAM solution?
A. Profile
B. Pre-create
C. Guest Customization
D. Create
Answer: D
Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Objects-v3_2:v32-networkconfig-ahv-r.html
Q4
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
Answer: B
Explanation:
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Q5
A company is new to automation and has infrastructure they would like to automate with Calm to provide
standardized automation. The company also wants to create a Hybrid Cloud environment with their
existing infrastructure which includes AHV, Azure, AWS, and a small legacy vSphere environment.
In which two locations can Calm be deployed? (Choose two.)
A. vSphere Essential Edition

B. VMware ESXi
C. Nutanix AHV
D. Any Public Cloud
Answer: B, C
Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details?targetId=RA-2093-Nutanix-Calm:top-nutanix-
calm-overview.html
Q6
An administrator wants to be alerted when production VMs become idle. The VMs will be determined to
be idle when CPU usage is lower than 5% for more than 5 minutes. All affected VMs are categorized as
Environment:Production,
since they have Flow microsegmentation rules.
What should the administrator do to satisfy this requirement?
A. Create an alert for all VMs, create a Playbook with this alert as the trigger and send an email as the
action.
B. Create an alert for VMs in the correct category, create a Playbook with this alert as the trigger > take a
snapshot > send an email as the action.
C. Create an alert for all VMs, create a Playbook with this alert as the trigger > reduce 1 CPU > send an
email as the action.
D. Create an alert for VMs in the correct category, create a Playbook with this alert as the trigger and
send an email as the action.
Answer: A
Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-Central-Guide-Prism-v6_0:mul-playboo
ks-create-alerts-matching-criteria-pc-t.html
Q7
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.
Answer: A
Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details?targetId=RA-2093-Nutanix-Calm:RA-2093-N
utanix-Calm
Q8
An administrator receives the following error while running a script through Calm on VM:
Which two conditions could cause this issue? (Choose two.)
A. The VM port is not allowed by the firewall.

B. The credentials have insufficient permissions.
C. The VM is still in the boot process.
D. There is an error in the script.
Answer: A, C
Explanation:
Reference:
_0:nuc-app-mgmt-troubleshoot-gokaran-errors-t.html
Q9
When creating a blueprint, which Pre-create and Post-delete tasks are valid?
A. Create, Start, Stop, Delete

B. Execute, Set variable, HTTP, Delay
C. Create, Start, Stop, Soft Delete
D. Execute, Set variable, API, Delay
Answer: B
Explanation:
Reference:
_7:nuc-pre-create-task-overview-c.html
Q10
Which two groups of operations can a Prism Admin or Super Admin role perform? (Choose two.)
A. Create, read, automate, or delete an action template in the action gallery

B. Create, read, update, or delete an action template in the action gallery
C. Create, read, automate, delete, enable, and run playbooks
D. Create, read, update, delete, enable, and run playbooks
Answer: B, D
Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Security-Guidev5_16:wc-user-manag
ement-using-pe-topichead.html
Q11
A blueprint was developed for deploying a standard 3-tier hosting environment for a company's
applications. The blueprint includes a load balancer, multiple web servers, a database server, and a small
test application.
During testing of the blueprint, the application fails to connect to the database. The cause is found to be
the database software is still installing when the application starts.
Which method most efficiently prevents the application from starting before the database?
A. Use a local install instead of downloading

B. Create a loop to retry connection
C. Create a service dependency
D. Use a sleep statement in a start script
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference:
_7:Nutanix-Calm-Admin-Operations-Guide-v3_2_7
Q12
Which Prism Central setting must first be configured in order to add users to a Project?
A. HTTP Proxy
B. Authentication Directory
C. Pulse
D. Local User Role Mapping
Answer: A
Explanation:
Reference: https://download.nutanix.com/documentation/v60/Prism-Central-Guide-Prism-v6_0.pdf
Q13
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.
Answer: D
Explanation:
Q14
Which method will result in unique names per VM when scaling out a Service in a Calm Blueprint?
A. Guest OS customization using sysprep contains

<ComputerName>@@{name}@@</ComputerName>.
B. Service VM Name field contains the macro variable @@{calm_array_index}@@.
C. Call an external Python eScript that uses an IPAM API to register the VM name in DNS.
D. Set the VM Name field to allow user edits at launch so the user can enter a custom value at launch.
Answer: B
Explanation:
Reference:
_7:nuc-multi-vm-blueprints.html
Q15
Which two providers are supported in Calm? (Choose two.)
A. Oracle Cloud
B. Kubernetes
C. GCP
D. IBM Cloud
Answer: B, C
Explanation:
Reference:
_7:nuc-nucalm-major-components-c.html
Q16
An administrator has created a task for a blueprint that could be applied to another blueprint. The
administrator wants to reuse the task with the least amount of effort.
How can the administrator accomplish this?
A. Publish the task to Github select the task from the Github Repository from the other blueprint.
B. Publish the task to the Marketplace, select the task from the Marketplace from the other blueprint.
C. Publish the task to the Task Repository, select the task from the Task Repository from the other
blueprint.
D. Publish the task to the Task Library select the task from the Task Library from the other blueprint.
Answer: D
Explanation:
Reference:
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Q17
During the deployment of a multi-step Blueprint, a failure is encountered. The administrator corrected the
failed step and saved the Blueprint.
What should the administrator do next?
A. Delete the failed application and Launch a new application.

B. Soft Delete the failed application and Launch a new application.
C. Use Continue in the failed application to retry.
D. Upon clicking Save the Blueprint task will be retried automatically.
Answer: D
Explanation:
Reference:
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Q18
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.
Answer: C
Explanation:
Q19
An administrator has been tasked with creating a multicloud, three-tier application using Calm. The
application needs to consist of:
A MongoDB backend database
A NodeJS Javascript runtime environment
An NGINX webserver
The administrator has access to an AWS account, as well as a locally hosted Nutanix cluster. The three
parts of the application should be fully redundant, and be able to tolerate either a cloud provider outage,
or a local Nutanix cluster outage.
What is the most appropriate solution the administrator should choose in order to meet the requirements?
A. Create a Calm blueprint with MongoDB, Node/S, and NGINX VMs running on Nutanix, as well as an
NGINX server running in AWS on US-WEST-1 and US-EAST-1.
B. Create a Calm blueprint with MongoDB, Node/S and NGINX VMs running on Nutanix, and a separate
blueprint for MongoDB, NodeJS, and NGINX running in AWS on US-WEST-1 and US-EAST-1.
C. Create a Calm blueprint with MongoDB, NodelS, and NGINX VMs running on Nutanix, as well as
MongoDB, NodeJS, and NGINX servers running in AWS on US-WEST-1 and US-EAST-1.
D. Create a Calm blueprint with MongoDB, NodelS, and NGINX VMs running on Nutanix, then manually
create three EC2 instances for MongoDB, NodeJS and NGINX in AWS running on US-WEST-1 and
US-EAST-1.
Answer: D
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.poweringtheshell.com/2018/08/nutanix-calm-blueprint-for-singlelinux.html
Q20
Which permission level grants access to Create, Update, Delete, and Duplicate Blueprints?
A. Consumer
B. Operator
C. Developer
D. Domain Admin
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference:
Q21
What are two valid trigger types available for executing Playbooks? (Choose two.)
A. Manual
B. Alert
C. Report
D. Audit
Answer: A, B
Explanation:
Reference:
k-creation-using-triggers-pc-c.html
Q22
An administrator needs to configure a Prism Central automation task to be notified if production VMs
exceed the CPU threshold of 70%.
How can this be achieved?
A. Create an NCC alert based on performance data.

B. Create an Alert policy for Category Env:Production.
C. Create an Alert policy for all VMs.
D. Create a script from the Guest OS for the alert.
Answer: B
Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-Central-Guide-Prism-v6_0:mul-alerts-
management-pc-c.html
Q23
An administrator needs to create a Playbook to be notified when VMs are deleted.
Which X-Play Trigger would satisfy this task?
A. Alert
B. Audit
C. Event
D. Time
Answer: A
Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-Central-Guide-Prism-v6_0:mul-branch-
action-create-pc-t.html
Q24
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.
Answer: D
Explanation:
Reference:
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Q25
What is the correct syntax for using a macro within a Calm blueprint?
A. @@{calm.object}(@@
B. %calm.object%
C. {{calm.object}}
D. $_calm.object_$
Answer: A
Explanation:
Reference:
_7:nuc-components-macros-overview-c.html
Q26
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
Answer: B
Explanation:
Reference:
https://www.nutanix.com/content/dam/nutanix/resources/misc/private-cloudreference-architecture-tech-no
te.pdf
Q27
An administrator needs to enable Showback in Calm to allow departments to see costs associated with
their Projects.
Where in Calm would the administrator enable Showback?
A. Marketplace
B. Projects
C. Setting
D. LCM
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference:
_7:nuc-enabling-showback-t.html
Q28
What is the correct method to upgrade Calm?
A. Calm Marketplace
B. LCM via Prism Element
C. LCM via Prism Central
D. Calm Dashboard
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference:
_7:nuc-calm-esxi-upgrade-c.html
Q29
An administrator creates a blueprint to deploy VMs to multiple clouds, so that business will remain
functional in the event of a disaster.
What component describes this feature?
A. Service
B. Profile Actions
C. Package
D. Substrates
Answer: A
Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details?targetId=Nutanix_Hybrid_Cloud_Reference_
Architecture:Nutanix_Hybrid_Cloud_Reference_Architecture
Q30
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
Answer: A, C
Explanation:
Reference:
Architecture:top-incorporating-optional-nutanix-products-and-services.html
Q31
An administrator is configuring Playbooks and is concerned about adding or reducing CPU and memory
resources to VMs.
Which two prerequisites should an administrator take into consideration when configuring the Playbooks?
(Choose two.)
A. CPU can be added to a powered on VM if the guest OS supports it

B. VM must be powered off to add CPU
C. VM must be powered off to reduce memory
D. Memory can be removed from a powered on VM if the guest OS supports it
Answer: A, B
Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-Central-Guide-Prism-v6_0:mul-vm-prer
equisites-playbook-actions-pc-r.html#vm-prerequisites-playbook-actions-pcr
Q32
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
Answer: C
Explanation:
Q33
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.
Answer: B
Explanation:
Q34
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
Answer: D
Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details?targetId=BP-2029_AHV:BP-2029_AHV
Q35
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
Answer: A
Explanation:
Reference:
_7:nuc-install-configure-nutanix-calm-t.html
Q36
Where should an administrator check why a Playbook failed to grow the memory of a VM?
A. VM Details in Prism Element

B. Plays dashboard in Prism Central
C. VM Details in Prism Central
D. Plays dashboard in Prism Element
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference:
k-actions-pc-r.html
Q37
An administrator is trying to delete a category, but the option is greyed out.
Which two conditions could be causing this issue? (Choose two.)
A. The category is system defined.

B. The category is assigned to powered-on VMs.
C. The category is part of a flow policy.
D. The category is user defined.
Answer: A, B
Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-Central-Guide-Prism-v6_0:mul-explore
-category-details-view-pc-r.html
Q38
An application team wants faster releases and starts an initiative to automate the entire database and
application deployments.
The current manual process involves:
Creating virtual machines to host the databases and applications
Allocate right amount of storage for the database and applications
Deploy database software and create database
Schedule backup and recovery process for the database
Deploy applications
How can application releases be repeatedly deployed in the least amount of time?
A. Create a Calm blueprint calling Calm APIs for both database and applications deployments
B. Deploy databases manually and create a Calm blueprint to automate application deployment
C. Deploy databases through Era and create a Calm blueprint to automate application deployment
D. Create a Calm blueprint deploying applications and calling Era APis to automate database
deployments
Answer: B
Explanation:
Reference:
https://www.nutanix.com/content/dam/nutanix/resources/datasheets/ds-private-cloudautomation-design-g
uide.pdf
Q39
A customer has decided to enable Calm Showback feature but started to receive an alert in Prism Central
stating that Calm showback is not able to reach beam service.
Which two configuration items should the administrator check to ensure Calm can communicate with
Beam? (Choose two.)
A. DNS configuration in Prism Central

B. Ensure Pulse is enabled
C. Prism Element is configured with Proxy settings
D. Flow is enabled in the same Prism Central
Answer: A, B
Explanation:
Q40
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
Answer: A
Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA00e000000LU6BCAW
Q41
An Application team has provided an administrator the following high level requirements for infrastructure
they require:
5 Application VMs
2 Database VMs
2 Web VMs
Which two pieces of information are needed, at a minimum, to effectively automate the scaling of the
environment? (Choose two.)
A. SLA uptime of the application

B. Steady state resource utilization
C. Expected resource utilization under load
D. If the application needs to be highly available
Answer: A, C
Explanation:
Reference:
https://www.nutanix.com/content/dam/nutanix/resources/misc/private-cloudreference-architecture-tech-no
te.pdf
Q42
An administrator manages a Nutanix cluster with 630 VMs, all of which are in production.
The Accounting department wants to be notified when any of their production VMs exceed 90% CPU
usage or 90% memory usage. Their VMs are categorized as LOB:Accounting.
How should the administrator satisfy this request from the Accounting department?
A. Direct the VM users to generate alerts within the affected VMs.

B. Create a dashboard in Prism Central with the CPU Usage.
C. Create a category named Department with the value Accounting.
D. Create an Alert with the Accounting category assigned.
Answer: D
Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-Central-Guide-Prism-v6_0:ale-alert-he
alth-toc-auto-u.html
Q43
Which Calm feature provides the ability for administrators to approve Single or Multi-VM Blueprints for
assignment to Projects?
A. Application Manager
B. Marketplace
C. Projects
D. Marketplace Manager
Answer: D
Explanation:
Reference:
_7:nuc-nucalm-major-components-c.html
Q44
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.
Answer: D
Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-Central-Guide-Prism-v6_0:mul-image-
placement-policy-pc-c.html
Q45
A developer has been asked to update the existing blueprint with an additional option of scaling it both out
and in.
Where in the Blueprint Editor should the developer make the relevant changes?
A. Environment, Actions
B. Configuration, Settings
C. Blueprint, Configuration
D. Application Profile, Actions
Answer: D
Explanation:
Reference:
_2:nuc-nucalm-blueprint-overview-c.html
Q46

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.
Answer: A
Explanation:
Q47
An administrator wants to create a blueprint for a development environment that uses an existing
on-premise GitLab repository. Every new development environment requires a new user in the GitLab
repo.
Which two tasks should the administrator perform within a Calm blueprint to automate this process?
(Choose two.)
A. Create an HTTP pre-create task to create the user in GitLab via REST API.
B. Create runtime-editable variables for user and password in the blueprint.
C. Add a task within the service in order to ask for user and password at runtime.
D. Create a task script in order to login with ssh to GitLab and create a random user and password.
Answer: A, B
Explanation:
Q48
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
Answer: A
Explanation:
Reference: https://download.nutanix.com/documentation/v60/Prism-Central-Guide-Prism-v6_0.pdf
Q49
An administrator needs to add AWS as a usable destination for application deployments.
Where would the administrator perform the task?
A. Marketplace
B. Projects
C. Blueprints
D. Providers
Answer: A
Explanation:
Reference:
utanix-Calm
Q50
A Blueprint fails on executing a check-login task against a Windows 2016 VM and displays the error
shown in the exhibit. The administrator is using a SSH key-based credential to authenticate the task.
What should the administrator change to resolve the issue?
A. Increase the retries to allow for the task to complete.

B. Change to password authentication credential.
C. Ensure the private key for the credential is correct.
D. Modify the timeout to give the task longer to complete.
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference:
_7:nuc-ssh-keys-for-linux-and-windows.html
Q51
A company has started a new project team and has asked an administrator to build the first blueprint for a
new public cloud environment that was defined last week. This will be the first deployment to AWS.
The administrator has been given the following information:
VM Name: web01-@@{unique}@@
IP Address: Provider-assigned
OS version: Windows Server 2016
Deployment location: AWS
Region: us-west-1
Project: Default
What should the administrator do first when building the first blueprint?
A. Create a new blueprint

B. Create a new provider
C. Create a new project
D. Create a new service
Answer: A
Explanation:
Q52
Where would a Calm administrator find the archived application logs within Prism Central?
A. Services > Calm > Projects

B. Services > Calm > Settings
C. Services > Calm > Applications
D. Services > Calm > Blueprints
Answer: B
Explanation:
Reference:
_1:nuc-application-log-archive-download-t.html
Q53
A company's NOC personnel have a custom Python script they run manually by logging into each VM to
fix a common issue across all of the corporate VMs. Management has no audit history of who is running
the script or when it is occurring. The company has recently implemented Calm and management has
asked its administrators to accomplish these tasks:
Reduce the manual effort for the NOC personnel.
Ensure the process is repeatable across all applications.
Provide audit history for management of the actions.
Which two actions should the administrators take to accomplish these tasks? (Choose two.)
A. Create a new Action, Add an Execute task with a script type of EScript, paste the custom script into the
action
B. View the Execution History tab under the Runbook page for audit purposes
C. Create a new Runbook Add an Execute task with a script type of EScript paste the custom script into
the action
D. View the Audit tab under the Application view for audit purposes
Answer: A, B
Explanation:
Q54
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
Answer: C
Explanation:
Q55
Prism Central reporting indicates that there are multiple memory-constrained VMs in multiple clusters.
The target VMs have Memory Hot Add enabled.
Using X-Play, in what order should the Playbook actions be added to ensure the VMs are properly
remediated?
A. VM add Memory, Take a VM Snapshot, Resolve Alert

B. Take a VM Snapshot, Power Off VM, VM Add Memory, Resolve Alert, Power on VM
C. Take a VM Snapshot, VM add Memory, Resolve Alert
D. Power off VM, Take a VM Snapshot, VM add Memory, Resolve Alert
Answer: B
Explanation:
Q56
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.
Answer: C
Explanation:
Q57
A developer updated a blueprint to ensure that the IP address of the VM is reserved in IPAM as part of
the deployment process. The developer noticed that when new VMs are created, they still get a DHCP IP
address and not a reserved IP address.
What is the most likely reason for this behavior?
A. Developer created a pre-create task for reserving the IP address

B. Developer created a post-create task for reserving the IP address
C. Developer forgot to save the updated blueprint
D. Developer forgot to publish the updated blueprint
Answer: B
Explanation:
Q58
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
Answer: B
Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-Central-Guide-Prism-v6_0:mul-automa
tion-management-pc-c.html
Q59
Which feature of Calm allows for the creation of task-based automation against dynamic lists of Windows
or Linux VMs?
A. Projects
B. Blueprints
C. Playbooks
D. Runbooks
Answer: D
Explanation:
Reference:
_7:nuc-nucalm-using-nucalm-c.html
Q60
Within a Calm blueprint, which two actions can an administrator apply to a Service under the Guest
Customization section? (Choose two.)
A. Apply a Cloudinit Script

B. Apply a Sysprep file
C. Modify the base OS image
D. Choose UEFI or Legacy BIOS
Answer: A, B
Explanation:
Reference:
_7:nuc-nucalm-blueprints-intro-c.html
Q61
An administrator has a Linux VM that does batch processing out of a queue. Currently, a technician
connects to the VM console and runs a command on the VM to initiate or terminate the batch processing
application, as there is no programmatic interface for the application.
The application is processor intensive, so it should only run outside of business hours. The VM has the
ability to send REST API calls to Prism.
How should the administrator configure a Playbook to satisfy the needs of this process with minimal
external interaction?
A. Manual Trigger > Power On > VM SSH > Wait for Some Time > Power Off VM
B. Time Trigger > VM SSH > Wait for Some Time > VM SSH
C. Webhook Trigger > REST API > Wait for Some Time > REST API
D. Manual Trigger > VM SSH > Wait for Some Time > VM SSH
Answer: C
Explanation:
Q62
Which are valid entity types to be associated with a playbook using a manual trigger?
A. VM, Host, Prism Central

B. VM, Host, Cluster
C. VM, Category, Prism Element
D. VM, Category, Cluster
Answer: B
Explanation:
Reference:
ks-create-manual-triggers-pc-t.html#suppression-rules-add-aws-sc-t
Q63
Where would a Calm Developer find logging related to blueprint package failures?
A. In Calm select Application icon > select application name > Audit Tab
B. In Calm select Application icon > select application name > Services Tab
C. SSH to Prism Central > /home/calm/log/styx.log
D. In Prism Central go to Activities > Audits and get the audits filter by date
Answer: B
Explanation:
Reference:
_2:nuc-nucalm-blueprint-overview-c.html
Q64
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
Answer: A, B
Explanation:
Reference:
utanix-Calm
Q65
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.
Answer: A, B
Explanation:
Reference:
_7:nuc-nutanix_calm_blueprints_public_repository.html
Q66
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.
Answer: D
Explanation:
Reference:
_7:nuc-nucalm-applications-intro-c.html
Q67
An administrator at a busy software development company is looking to roll out Calm for automation and
estimates they will be creating 200 Projects, 500 Runbooks, 1500 Blueprints and automating the
deployment of 7500 VMs for their development teams.
What size of Prism Central VM(s) is recommended to host the Calm environment?
A. 3 nodes Large - 10vCPU and 52GB Memory per node.
B. 1 node Small - 6vCPU and 30GB Memory per node.

C. 3 nodes Small - 6vCPU and 30GB Memory per node.
D. 1 node Large - 10vCPU and 52GB Memory per node.
Answer: A
Explanation:
Reference:
Architecture:Nutanix_Hybrid_Cloud_Reference_Architecture
Q68
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.
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-Central-Guide-Prism-v6_0:Prism-Centr
al-Guide-Prism-v6_0
Q69
A blueprint service needs to use scaling. The requirements are:
Windows 2019 VM (12 vCPU, 24 GB memory, 500 GB volume)
Minimum VMs needed at any time and at time of deployment is 2 VMs
VMs should not exceed the project quota of 100 vCPUs or 300 GB of memory There are no other
services in use within the project Which scaling VM replica settings meet all requirements?
A. MIN: 2, MAX: 11, Default: 2

B. MIN: 2, MAX: 7, Default: 2
C. MIN: 2, MAX: 10, Default: 1
D. MIN: 2, MAX: 8, Default: 1
Answer: D
Explanation:
Q70
A company wants to ensure that all developers are able to request new development environments on
demand by using ServiceNow.
The administrator notices that even though developers create new environments, they rarely remove
these environments when moving on to new assignments. Today, the administrator has gone into Prism
Central to check when the VM was created, in order to reach out to the developer and ask if it can be
deleted. The administrator has accidentally deleted the wrong VM in the past.
Which two methods can the administrator use to automate this task to avoid deleting the incorrect VMs?
(Choose two.)
A. Create a playbook REST API action to delete the VM from a ServiceNow approval flow.
B. Create a playbook webhook action to delete the VM from a ServiceNow approval flow.
C. Create a playbook webhook trigger to delete the VM from a ServiceNow approval flow.
D. Create a playbook REST API trigger to delete the VM from a ServiceNow approval flow.
Answer: A, C
Explanation:
Reference:
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-Central-Guide-Prism-v6_0:mul-service-
now-configure-webhook-playbooks-pc-t.html
Q71
Calm encountered the error shown in the exhibit when importing a script that maps a network drive.
Upon further investigation, the Calm administrator was unable to run the script manually on a VM and
discovered that elevated permissions were needed.
Which command should the administrator add to the script?
A. Enable-WSManCredSSP -Role Server -Force

B. Enable-WSManCredSSP -Role Client
C. Enable-WSManCredSSP -Role Server
D. Disable-WSManCredSSP -Role Server -Force
Answer: A
Explanation:
Reference:
Q72
An administrator is providing users with access to the company's LOB applications through a VDI
solution. The administrator received information that the company are going to hire 200 new employees
who will be using these applications.
The environment is monitored by a third-party tool that notifies the administrator when the VDI solution is
about to run out of capacity. This gives the administrator time to create additional resources and add
them to the VDI solution.
What should the administrator use when creating a playbook to automate this?
A. A trigger based on a REST API

B. A trigger based on an email
C. A trigger based on an event
D. A trigger based on an alert
Answer: D
Explanation:
Q73
An administrator had provided Linux VM console access to the OS Team. However, the team is unable to
access one of the newly-created Linux VMs.
How can the administrator resolve this issue?
A. Create a local user in Linux OS and provide access to the OS Team.

B. Provide Prism Admin access to the OS Team Active Directory Group.
C. Create a role for the OS Team Active Directory Group and add the VMs to it.
D. Assign new VMs to a category and provide category access to the OS Team.
Answer: C
Explanation:
Q74
The VM appSAP01dev is a SAP development environment application and it is common to have memory
constrained alerts on this VM, but the administrator wants to avoid adding memory to development VMs
like this one, since this is normally done for only production VMs.
Which two actions should the administrator take to avoid adding memory to the development VMs?
(Choose two.)
A. Assign the category Environment:Production to the production VMs

B. Modify the Alert by adding the correct category
C. Disable the Alert in Prism Central
D. Assign the category Environment:Development to development VMs
Answer: B, D
Explanation:
Q75
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
Answer: D
Explanation:

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However, it keeps failing.

Why is this Playbook continuing to fail?

A. Slack configuration should be reviewed.

A. Create AWS and Azure Providers

In which two locations can Calm be deployed? (Choose two.)

A. vSphere Essential Edition

What should the administrator do to satisfy this requirement?

Creates a Windows and Ubuntu Server.

Installs IIS on Windows

How should the developer add this functionality to the Blueprint?

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

Which two conditions could cause this issue? (Choose two.)

A. The VM port is not allowed by the firewall.

A. Create, Start, Stop, Delete

A. Create, read, automate, or delete an action template in the action gallery

A. Use a local install instead of downloading

What is the cause of this error within the blueprint?

D. Connection Type has no protocol selected.

A. Guest OS customization using sysprep contains

How can the administrator accomplish this?

What should the administrator do next?

A. Delete the failed application and Launch a new application.

What is the easiest way to satisfy this request?

A MongoDB backend database

A NodeJS Javascript runtime environment

How can this be achieved?

A. Create an NCC alert based on performance data.

Which X-Play Trigger would satisfy this task?

What is causing this issue?

Where in Calm would the administrator enable Showback?

What component describes this feature?

A. Host where the action runs

A. CPU can be added to a powered on VM if the guest OS supports it

What could be the cause of the error?

Memory needs to be increased by 4 GB when utilization reaches 80%.

Return of over-allocated resources must not affect other business applications.

A. Clone and adjust the system-created playbooks

A. Prism Central -> Services -> Calm -> Enable

A. VM Details in Prism Element

Which two conditions could be causing this issue? (Choose two.)

A. The category is system defined.

The current manual process involves:

Creating virtual machines to host the databases and applications

Allocate right amount of storage for the database and applications

Deploy database software and create database

Schedule backup and recovery process for the database

A. DNS configuration in Prism Central

A. SLA uptime of the application

A. Direct the VM users to generate alerts within the affected VMs.

How this can be achieved?

A. Configure a Protection Domain to replicate images.

Refer to the exhibit.

What is causing the error message?

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

A. On the Prism Central Tasks page

Where would the administrator perform the task?

What should the administrator change to resolve the issue?

A. Increase the retries to allow for the task to complete.