The Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) 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.
Knowledge Objectives:
- Section 1: Describe Life Cycle Management
- Section 2: Describe Nutanix Fundamental Concepts
- Section 3: Explain Cluster Alerts and Monitoring Administration
- Section 4: Describe Storage Concepts
- Section 5: Explain Virtual Infrastructure Administration
- Section 6: Describe Nutanix Solutions
Prerequisites
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 a systems administrator, junior engineer or IT operator 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.
Recommended training for this certification
Exams
Format
- 50 multiple choice questions
- Time Limit: 90 minutes
- Language: English and Japanese
Pricing
- $99 per attempt
Scoring The passing score for this exam is 3000, using a scaled scoring method. The scale is from 1000-6000. Scaled scores are calculated using a mathematical formula that considers a variety of factors, including the number and type of exam questions included in a specific version of the exam. Because this combination may vary in different versions of the same examination, scaled scores provide a fair score for everyone based on the version of the exam taken.
Recertification
Once you have passed the Nutanix Certified Associate 6.5 exam and achieved the NCA 6 certification, it will remain valid for two years.
To maintain your certification status, you must either renew your existing certification, pass an NCP-level exam, or pass the NCM-MCI exam.