About the Exam

This exam measures knowledge of automation principles and the automation capabilities built into the Nutanix platform. It is aimed at IT professionals with about 3-6 months of experience automating infrastructure deployment and applications across a hybrid multicloud environment. Passing demonstrates practical familiarity with Nutanix automation concepts including X-Play, Self-Service, blueprints, runbooks, playbooks, and governance.

Exam Topics

Section 1 – Describe and Differentiate Automation Concepts and Principles0%
Section 2 – Deploy and Configure Self Service and Related Components0%
Section 3 – Validate Blueprints, Runbooks, Playbooks, and Automation Settings0%

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QuestionQ1

Section 2 – Deploy and Configure Self Service and Related Components

Which project setting lets a project administrator or user view and manage other users’ VMs and applications within the same project?

Explanation

The Allow Collaboration setting enables project users to collaboratively view and manage VMs and applications belonging to other users in the same project.

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Nutanix Cloud Manager: Creating a Project

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QuestionQ2

Section 2 – Deploy and Configure Self Service and Related Components

With the Prism Viewer role, which operations are permitted?

Explanation

The Prism Viewer role provides view-only access. It permits analysis of playbooks, plays, and the action gallery, but it does not allow creating, cloning, updating, stopping, or resuming resources.

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QuestionQ3

Section 2 – Deploy and Configure Self Service and Related Components

Which type of entity can receive a Category tag?

Explanation

Nutanix Flow Virtual Networking supports applying Category tags to virtual private clouds (VPCs), enabling VPCs to be classified and managed according to organizational metadata.

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QuestionQ4

Section 3 – Validate Blueprints, Runbooks, Playbooks, and Automation Settings

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The user wants to take a snapshot, expand the vDisk, and receive the result in a Slack message initiated by a CI/CD pipeline.

Which trigger should be used?

Explanation

A Webhook trigger allows an external CI/CD pipeline to invoke the playbook through an HTTP POST endpoint. The playbook can then run the VM recovery-point action, expand the vDisk, and send the Slack notification.

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Getting Started with Nutanix X-Play

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QuestionQ5

Section 2 – Deploy and Configure Self Service and Related Components

Which role is needed to create a remote Prism Central account in Self-Service (formerly Calm)?

Explanation

Configuring a remote Prism Central account in Nutanix Self-Service requires the Prism Admin role.

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Nutanix Self-Service Administration and Operations Guide

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QuestionQ6

Section 2 – Deploy and Configure Self Service and Related Components

Which two items are required to create a Category through automation?

Choose two

Explanation

A Category is defined as a name-and-value classification. Automation must provide the category name and its value or values; purpose and tags are not required fields for creating the Category.