Nutanix NCP-US study guide
Nutanix NCP-US · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Nutanix Certified Professional - Unified Storage (NCP-US) is a professional-level certification for administrators and engineers who design, deploy, and operate Nutanix's software-defined storage stack across Files, Objects, and Volumes. It suits storage admins moving off traditional NAS/SAN, virtualization engineers who own datastore capacity, and cloud or platform engineers responsible for S3-compatible object storage and iSCSI block consumption. The Nutanix NCP-US study guide has 7 sections and about 2,316 words.
01Nutanix Unified Storage Fundamentals and Architecture
This domain checks whether you can explain how Nutanix Unified Storage combines Files, Objects, and Volumes on the Nutanix Cloud Platform, and how those services inherit AOS resilience. Expect questions on the Distributed Storage Fabric, Prism Element versus Prism Central, storage containers, and the fact that unified storage is software-defined rather than a separate silo.
357 words, about 2 min02Files: Deployment, Configuration, and Shares
Nutanix Files is deployed as a file server made up of File Server VMs on an AHV cluster. You need a storage container, a network with enough addresses for FSVMs and the file server VIP, DNS, NTP, and Active Directory for SMB.
354 words, about 2 min03Objects: Buckets, Access Keys, and S3 Compatibility
Nutanix Objects runs on AHV and exposes an S3-compatible endpoint. Clients sign requests with an access key ID and a secret access key, typically using Signature V4.
338 words, about 2 min04Volumes: Block Storage and iSCSI Configuration
Nutanix Volumes presents block storage over iSCSI. A Volume Group is a collection of vDisks and becomes an iSCSI target with LUNs.
322 words, about 2 min05Data Protection, Snapshots, and Disaster Recovery
Nutanix snapshots are metadata-based and space-efficient. Protection domains group VMs and Volume Groups for local snapshots and remote replication.
310 words, about 2 min06Monitoring, Performance, and Troubleshooting
Prism Element and Prism Central show alerts, health, capacity, IOPS, latency, and throughput. NCC runs cluster checks.
317 words, about 2 min07Security, Access Control, and Compliance
Prism Central RBAC maps AD or LDAP users and groups to roles, so use least privilege. Files uses AD for SMB identities and export rules for NFS.
318 words, about 2 min