NCP-MCA Practice Test Questions

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A company is new to automation and has infrastructure they would like to automate with Calm to provide standardized automation. The company also wants to create a Hybrid Cloud environment with their existing infrastructure which includes AHV, Azure, AWS, and a small legacy vSphere environment.
In which two locations can Calm be deployed? (Choose two.)


A. vSphere Essential Edition


B. VMware ESXi


C. Nutanix AHV


D. Any Public Cloud





B.
  VMware ESXi

C.
  Nutanix AHV

Refer to the exhibit.



Saving the Calm Blueprint gives the validation error for VMware Blueprints shown in the exhibit.
What could be the cause of the error?


A. Number of Template vCPU components should be equal to the number of pCPU configured.


B. Number of Template NICs components should be equal to the number of Network Settings configured.


C. Number of Template devices components should be equal to the number of Devices configured.


D. Number of Template VMXNET3 components should be equal to the number of Virtual e1000 adapters configured.





B.
  Number of Template NICs components should be equal to the number of Network Settings configured.

Refer to exhibits.



The variable VM_NAME is giving a warning that indicates that the variable is not found. When checking the Service tab, the variable is found to match the VM_NAME field entry as shown in the exhibit below:



What is causing this warning message?


A. VM_NAME variable must be defined under Application Profile


B. Service Name matches the variable name


C. @@{calm_time}@@ output is longer than allowed for a Service Name


D. User modifiable variable for VM_NAME is not allowed





D.
  User modifiable variable for VM_NAME is not allowed

An administrator creates a blueprint to deploy VMs to multiple clouds, so that business will remain functional in the event of a disaster.
What component describes this feature?


A. Service


B. Profile Actions


C. Package


D. Substrates





A.
  Service

Where would a Calm Developer find logging related to blueprint package failures?


A. In Calm select Application icon > select application name > Audit Tab


B. In Calm select Application icon > select application name > Services Tab


C. SSH to Prism Central > /home/calm/log/styx.log


D. In Prism Central go to Activities > Audits and get the audits filter by date





B.
  In Calm select Application icon > select application name > Services Tab

Which two features does the Calm Marketplace provide? (Choose two.)


A. Published and versioned Blueprints


B. Library of executable tasks


C. Store of all Blueprints created in Calm


D. Set of pre-seeded application Blueprints





A.
  Published and versioned Blueprints

B.
  Library of executable tasks

When creating a blueprint, which Pre-create and Post-delete tasks are valid?


A. Create, Start, Stop, Delete


B. Execute, Set variable, HTTP, Delay


C. Create, Start, Stop, Soft Delete


D. Execute, Set variable, API, Delay





B.
  Execute, Set variable, HTTP, Delay

What is the correct syntax for using a macro within a Calm blueprint?


A. @@{calm.object}(@@


B. %calm.object%


C. {{calm.object}}


D. $_calm.object_$





A.
  @@{calm.object}(@@

An administrator has been asked to review and clean up all existing categories within the Nutanix environment.
What information should the administrator filter on to organize the findings and eliminate unused categories?


A. Policies, Triggers, Categories, and Entities


B. Blueprint, Triggers, Categories, and Polices


C. Blueprint, Policies, Value, and Entities


D. Name, Value, Entities, and Policies





C.
  Blueprint, Policies, Value, and Entities

Which Prism Central setting must first be configured in order to add users to a Project?


A. HTTP Proxy


B. Authentication Directory


C. Pulse


D. Local User Role Mapping





A.
  HTTP Proxy

A blueprint was developed for deploying a standard 3-tier hosting environment for a company's applications. The blueprint includes a load balancer, multiple web servers, a database server, and a small test application.
During testing of the blueprint, the application fails to connect to the database. The cause is found to be the database software is still installing when the application starts.
Which method most efficiently prevents the application from starting before the database?


A. Use a local install instead of downloading


B. Create a loop to retry connection


C. Create a service dependency


D. Use a sleep statement in a start script





C.
  Create a service dependency

A developer has a Development Blueprint that performs the following high level items:
Creates a Windows and Ubuntu Server.
Installs IIS on Windows
Installs MySQL on Ubuntu
As part of Development, there is a need for an Operator to restart IIS Services for troubleshooting purposes.
How should the developer add this functionality to the Blueprint?


A. Add an Execute Task in the Restart Action of the Application Profile.


B. Add an Execute Task in the Restart Action of the Windows/IIS Service.


C. Add a Delay Task in the Restart Action of the Windows/IIS Service.


D. Create an Endpoint for the IIS server and a Runbook that restarts the service.





A.
  Add an Execute Task in the Restart Action of the Application Profile.


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