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Nutanix Certified Associate
The Nutanix Cloud Platform from the ground up: what hyperconvergence changes, the Controller VM and data locality, replication factor and self-healing, storage pools and containers, managing a cluster with Prism, and the product portfolio by purpose.
What you get
Papers are cut from the bank and weighted like the real exam, and no question appears in two of them. Every wrong answer comes back on later days until you have it right.
What the exam covers
| Hyperconverged architecture and cluster concepts | Not published |
| Managing a cluster with Prism, and the product portfolio | Not published |
Two sample questions
1. Where is Prism Element found?
- Deployed as a separate virtual machine
- Installed on each administrator's desktop
- Provided as a service by the vendor
- Built into every cluster already — correct
Why: Prism Central is the one that has to be deployed, which is a common early misunderstanding.
2. What does the pool aggregate?
- All switches
- All users
- All node storage — correct
- All licences
Why: The pool aggregates every node's disks.
The real NCA exam
| Length | 90 minutes |
|---|---|
| Questions | 75 |
| Pass mark | Not published; Nutanix reports a scaled score with pass or fail |
| Price | $199 USD |
| Recommended before you sit it | None. It is the entry point to the Nutanix certification ladder. |
| Valid for | 2 years |
Exam facts as published by Nutanix; always check the vendor’s page before you book.
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