Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA)
v6.10
The Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) 6.10 certification validates your skills and abilities to navigate the Prism UI, extrapolate information from the UI, and know how to use the UI for basic operational tasks.
Successful candidates have approximately 6- 12 months of holistic IT infrastructure experience as well as 3-6 months of Nutanix virtualization experience. They are typically systems administrators, junior engineers, or IT operators and should be able to navigate and identify components within the Prism UI; perform life cycle management tasks of VMs and clusters; and monitor and report on performance, events, and alerts. The successful candidate will most likely have taken training courses such as the Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Fundamentals (NHCF) course.
Knowledge Objectives
Section 1 – Describe Lifecycle Management
Describe Life Cycle Manager (LCM)
Monitor LCM software and firmware upgrades
Section 2 – Describe Nutanix Basic Administration
Describe how to perform basic VM tasks
Identify cluster-level settings
Determine cluster license level
Section 3 – Maintain the Environmental Health of a Nutanix cluster environment
Perform and interpret a health check
Administer alerts, events and policies
Create a support ticket
Section 4 – Describe Cluster Configuration Options
Determine and describe redundancy/replication factors
Identify storage components
Identify storage optimization
Identify the supported hypervisors
Identify basic AHV networking
Determine use cases for Nutanix products and services
Benefits
Once you earn the NCA certification you join an exclusive community of Nutanix certified personnel, and earn more tangible benefits as well:
Use of the NCA logo
NCA Digital Badge from Credly
Access to the Nutanix Certification store
Discounts on Nutanix events
Early access to educational programs
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