Nutanix NCP-MCI 7.5: Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) 7.5

Last checked November 10, 2026 against the official Nutanix exam page.

1. Question 1Manage clusters

   A team has bare-metal nodes that need AOS and a hypervisor installed before a new cluster can be formed on them. Which Nutanix tool is built for imaging the nodes and creating the cluster?

   1. ALife Cycle Manager, which applies firmware and software updates to an existing cluster
   2. BFoundation, which images the nodes and creates the new cluster
   3. CNutanix Move, which migrates virtual machines from other platforms to AHV
   4. DPrism Central, which manages several clusters once they are already registered
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   Correct answer: B

   Foundation images the nodes with AOS and the chosen hypervisor and then creates the cluster. Life Cycle Manager updates a cluster that already exists, Move migrates workloads, and Prism Central manages clusters only after they are registered.

2. Question 2Manage workloads

   An administrator must ensure a licensed database VM runs only on one of two specific AHV hosts. Which policy fits this requirement?

   1. AA snapshot schedule that restores the VM to a host after any failure
   2. BA VM-VM anti-affinity policy that keeps the VM apart from its replica VM
   3. CA category assignment that tags the VM with a database label only
   4. DA VM-host affinity policy that lists the two approved hosts for the VM
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   Correct answer: D

   A VM-host affinity policy restricts a VM to the hosts listed, which is what this scenario needs. Anti-affinity separates VMs from each other, a category is only a label used for grouping, and snapshots restore data rather than control host placement.

3. Question 3Disaster recovery and data protection

   On a Prism Element cluster, an administrator wants a group of VMs and volume groups to share one snapshot schedule and replicate together to a remote site. Which construct should be used?

   1. AA recovery plan, which orders the power-on sequence of the VMs at the target site during failover
   2. BA protection domain, which groups entities for shared snapshot and replication schedules
   3. CA category, which tags VMs so that snapshots can be scheduled per tag
   4. DA storage container, which stores the snapshots of the grouped VMs
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   Correct answer: B

   Protection domains group VMs and volume groups so they share snapshot schedules and replicate to a remote site together. Recovery plans belong to Prism Central-based DR, categories are only tags, and a storage container holds data rather than defining replication groups.

4. Question 4Operations and monitoring

   A manager asks when the cluster's storage is likely to run out if current growth continues. Which Prism Central capability answers this question?

   1. AThe NCC health checks, which report hardware errors on each node
   2. BCapacity planning, which forecasts resource runway from historical usage trends
   3. CNutanix Pulse, which sends diagnostic telemetry to Nutanix support
   4. DLife Cycle Manager, which lists the firmware and software versions available to install
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   Correct answer: B

   Capacity planning in Prism Central projects how long current resources will last based on usage trends. Health checks report problems, Life Cycle Manager handles updates, and Pulse sends telemetry to Nutanix support rather than forecasting capacity.

5. Question 5Manage clusters

   What does the replication factor setting on a storage container control?

   1. AHow many virtual machines can be placed on the container before it is considered full
   2. BHow the data written to the container is compressed on the disks
   3. CHow many copies of each piece of data are kept on separate nodes and disks
   4. DWhich hosts are permitted to mount the container through an NFS export
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   Correct answer: C

   The replication factor, RF2 or RF3, sets how many redundant copies of each block of data are stored, which determines how many simultaneous node or disk failures the cluster can survive. VM placement limits, compression, and NFS client access are controlled by other settings.