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The Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Automation certification measures knowledge of automation principles and the automation capabilities built into the Nutanix platform. It is intended for IT professionals with about 3-6 months of experience using Nutanix products to automate infrastructure and application deployment across a hybrid multicloud environment, often in DevOps or multicloud automation roles. Passing demonstrates practical ability to work with Self-Service, X-Play, blueprints, runbooks, playbooks, governance, and related validation workflows.

Exam Topics

  • Describe and Differentiate Automation Concepts and Principles33%
  • Deploy and Configure Self-Service and Related Components33%
  • Validate Blueprints, Runbooks, Playbooks, and Automation Settings34%

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QuestionQ1

Deploy and Configure Self-Service and Related Components

Which feature enables blueprints to be published for consumption?

  • A Unified Multi-Cloud Orchestration
  • B Self-Service DSL - Infrastructure-as-Code
  • C Application Development and Modernization
  • D Marketplace and Application Management
Explanation

Marketplace and Application Management provides the marketplace/catalog experience for publishing preconfigured application blueprints so consumers can select and deploy them.

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QuestionQ2

Describe and Differentiate Automation Concepts and Principles

What does a category represent?

  • A A grouping of entities into key-value pairs
  • B A database grouped by the type of entities
  • C A grouping of VMs according to capacities
  • D A database for all the created VMs
Explanation

A category is a logical classification that groups entities using key-value pairs; it can be assigned to managed entities such as virtual machines.

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QuestionQ3

Deploy and Configure Self-Service and Related Components

A DevOps team uses Self-Service to manage its test environment. They need developers to request deployment of their own development VMs from the marketplace and perform day-2 operations, without granting full administrative access to Self-Service.

Which role appropriately meets this requirement?

  • A Consumer
  • B Project Admin
  • C Developer
  • D Operator
Explanation

The Consumer role can launch blueprints from the marketplace and run actions on deployed applications, including day-2 operations, while not being permitted to create blueprints or administer the project. This supplies VM self-service with limited operational access.

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QuestionQ4

Deploy and Configure Self-Service and Related Components

An administrator is configuring Self-Service to centrally manage automation across the corporate environment. The environment uses tunnels to communicate with VMs in protected Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) environments.

How should the administrator configure Self-Service to manage the VMs in a VPC?

  • A Configure the policy engine VM within the VPC to enable the tunnel VM to communicate with an external subnet that is routable to Prism Central.
  • B Configure an external subnet to the VPC to enable the tunnel VM to reach Prism Central and establish a tunnel connection.
  • C Configure an external subnet to the VPC to enable the tunnel VM to reach the policy engine VM and establish a tunnel connection.
  • D Configure Prism Central with an additional IP address within the VPC.
Explanation

For orchestration of VMs on VPC overlay subnets, Self-Service requires an external VLAN subnet to be attached to the VPC. This enables the tunnel VM to reach the policy engine VM and establish the tunnel connection required for orchestration and script-based tasks.

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QuestionQ5

Deploy and Configure Self-Service and Related Components

A Security Policy denies access to VMs on every port except HTTPS (port 443) for VMs in the AppType: Web-Servers category. It also permits SSH (port 22) traffic for VMs categorized as AppType: Admin-VM. Additionally, a Protection Policy creates snapshots every 24 hours for VMs categorized as Protection: 24_hr_RPO, and an Anti-Affinity Policy is configured for AppType: Web-Servers.

A developer created a blueprint to deploy VMs for Administrators, but the VM cannot be reached through SSH.

What modification must be made to the blueprint?

  • A Blueprint must assign the AppType: Admin-VM category to the VM.
  • B Blueprint must use the Protection: 24_hr_RPO Protection Policy.
  • C Blueprint must add the Administrators to the Project.
  • D Blueprint must assign the AppType: Web-Servers category to the VM.
Explanation

SSH traffic on port 22 is allowed only when the VM has the AppType: Admin-VM category. Assigning that category in the blueprint causes the deployed VM to match the Security Policy rule that permits SSH.

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