Nutanix Certified Professional-Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) v7.5

QUESTION NO: 1
Due to user complaints of slow VM performance, an administrator is reviewing performance metrics on their Nutanix cluster and executes `iostat` on a Controller VM (CVM).
The following output is captured:
`#TIMESTAMP 1768953673 : 01/21/2026 12:01:13 AM`
`avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle`
` 2.32 0.09 7.53 83.20 0.00 6.86`
Based on this output, which statement most accurately describes the current state of the CVM?

A. The CVM is under heavy computational load from Nutanix services, as evidenced by the high percentage of active processing cycles currently in use. B. The CVM is likely waiting on disk I/O operations to complete, suggesting a potential bottleneck in the storage subsystem or underlying physical drives. C. The CVM is experiencing significant CPU contention from the hypervisor, as indicated by the discrepancy between low user percentage and high system overhead. D. The CVM is suffering from excessive network throughput congestion, resulting in a high percentage of CPU cycles being dedicated to interrupt processing.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 2
After scaling out Prism Central to improve resiliency, which additional configuration should an administrator complete?

A. Deploy the Witness service in a separate failure domain. B. Set up VM-VM anti-affinity rules between Prism Central VMs. C. Configure a Protection Domain to include all Prism Central VMs. D. Enable High Availability Reservations for Prism Element cluster.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 3
An administrator must configure a VM which would run a write-intensive application on a hybrid NVMe + SSD cluster. When setting VM options, which action would give the best performance?

A. Isolate storage traffic with network segmentation. B. Set Flash Mode at the VM level. C. Enable Load Balance Volume Group. D. Configure a dedicated RF3 storage container.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 4
When configuring a Point-in-Time Backup for Prism Central, for which maximum duration are restore points supported for recovery?

A. 14 days B. 30 days C. 90 days D. 7 days

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 5
An administrator detects suspicious outbound connections from a single VM that hosts a web tier component.
The incident response requirement is to immediately quarantine the VM so it cannot communicate with any other workload, but still allow connectivity from a designated forensic tooling group so investigators can collect evidence.
The organization uses categories for policy scope and wants a change that can be applied quickly during an incident without redesigning existing policies.
Which action best meets the requirement?

A. Assign the VM to the built-in Quarantine category with the Strict value and separately create a shared service policy to allow forensic access. B. Create an isolation environment policy between the VM and all other categories to block traffic and manually add exceptions for forensic tools. C. Assign the VM to the built-in Quarantine category with the Forensic value so quarantine behavior blocks traffic except to and from forensic tools. D. Create an application policy that only allows outbound traffic to forensic tools, leaving inbound traffic as allow all for faster investigation.

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 6
An administrator is tasked with configuring asynchronous replication between two Availability Zones (AZs) using a Protection Policy.
Which requirement must be met to successfully configure asynchronous replication?

A. Primary and recovery clusters must be running the same version of Prism Central. B. Round trip time (RTT) latency between the primary and recovery clusters must be less than 5 ms. C. Storage container name of the protected entities must be identical on primary and .recovery clusters. D. Primary and recovery clusters must both be registered with a single Prism Central instance.

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 7
A database server has a corrupt database after a VM was restored from a recovery point. The database VM is part of the VIP_VMS category that is protected by a Protection Policy with asynchronous schedule.
After checking the state of NGT tools, an administrator is investigating the Protection Policy looking for the root cause of the database corruption.
What is the most probably cause?

A. Take App-Consistent Recovery Point option is not selected. B. The VM should have been added to the Applications category. C. Set RPO is too high for protecting database VMs. D. Roll-up schedule is used in Protection Policy instead of Linear.

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 8
An administrator is trying to move an asynchronous PD workload from one cluster to another by taking advantage of PD-Based DR when an error message is displayed in Prism.
Error updating protection domain. Protection domain is already active on source site "cluster name". Please trigger migrate from source site to activate the protection domain.
What would cause this error to appear?

A. Must "Promote" the secondary site first before activating B. VMs must be migrated from the VM page instead of using DR C. Trying to "activate" the PD while the primary cluster is reachable D. .Must "disable" first before trying to activate a PD

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 9
How many S3 targets are supported for Prism Central point-in-time backups?

A. 1 B. 3 C. 2 D. 4

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 10
An administrator is creating a settings profile in Prism Central to standardize NTP configuration across multiple clusters. The organization's security policy requires that all NTP communication must be authenticated.
The administrator adds an NTP server to the profile, but does not see the Key ID and Key Hex fields.
What is the most likely cause?

A. Authenticated NTP requires the cluster to run AOS 7.0 or later. B. Authentication Type needs to be changed to SHA256, SHA384, or SHA512. C. NTP server must be added through Prism Element before it can be authenticated in Prism Central. D. Authenticated NTP is only supported when Microservices Infrastructure is disabled on Prism Central.

Correct Answer: A

Nutanix Certified Professional-Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) v7.5 - NCP-MCI Exam Questions