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

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

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

3. An administrator needs to protect a set of workloads across three sites (Site A, Site B, Site C) managed by different Prism Central instances. Which is the most efficient way to protect such VMs?

A) Create two protection policies, one from site A to B and one from site A to C.
B) Create a single protection policy from Site A and clone it to Site B and Site C.
C) Create three different protection policies, one per Prism Central.
D) Create a single protection policy for all three sites from the source cluster.

4. When configuring a Point-in-Time Backup for Prism Central, for which maximum duration are restore points supported for recovery?

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

5. An administrator supports multiple AHV clusters under Prism Central and uses Intelligent Operations playbooks for remediation.
The organization recently standardized alert policies, but the alert policy names and IDs change between environments due to automated deployments and periodic updates.
The requirement is to trigger a remediation playbook for any alert that matches a defined performance pattern (for example, impact type and severity plus a keyword pattern), regardless of which specific alert policy generated it, while avoiding unrelated non-performance alerts.
Which playbook trigger best meets the requirement?

A) Webhook trigger - configured so an external system calls the playbook endpoint only when performance incidents are detected.
B) Alert trigger - configured to a single alert policy so the playbook triggers only when that specific policy generates an alert.
C) Alerts Matching Criteria trigger - configured with the required alert filters so the playbook triggers for any alert meeting the criteria.
D) Event trigger - configured for a single event type so the playbook triggers when that event type is generated for the selected entities.

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