Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure

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Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure Exam Format

NCP-MCI

Everything the official exam blueprint specifies: question count, time limit, scoring and the weight each domain carries. The Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) certification validates the technical skills required to deploy, manage, and maintain Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure. As organizations move toward hybrid and multicloud architectures, this exam ensures professionals can handle complex Nutanix environments, including AHV virtualization and Nutanix Cloud Clusters. It covers essential operational tasks such as storage provisioning, data protection, and security hardening, ensuring that administrators can maintain high availability and performance in modern data centers and cloud-integrated ecosystems.

75 questions
120 min
70% to pass
6 domains

Exam facts at a glance

What we know about this exam, and where the information comes from.

SpecificationValue
Questions75
Time limit120 minutes (96s per question)
Passing score70%
Domains6
LevelProfessional
Question bank here75 questions
SourceCertilum's own record — the vendor does not publish this figure

Official domain weights

The percentage of the exam each domain carries. Weight your revision by these numbers, not by what you find hardest.

DomainWeightTopicsPractice Qs
AHV Virtualization20%
  • AHV hypervisor lifecycle management
  • VM creation and configuration
  • Virtual networking and vSwitch management
  • +1 more
15
Prism Administration20%
  • Prism Element and Prism Central management
  • User role-based access control (RBAC)
  • Cluster health monitoring
  • +1 more
15
Security & Compliance15%
  • Data-at-rest encryption
  • Microsegmentation basics
  • Security auditing
  • +1 more
12
Compute & Storage Management15%
  • Storage pool and container management
  • Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF)
  • Performance monitoring
  • +1 more
11
Multicloud Integration & Migration15%
  • Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) basics
  • Hybrid cloud connectivity
  • Workload migration tools
  • +1 more
11
Data Protection & Disaster Recovery15%
  • Snapshot management
  • Protection Domain configuration
  • Replication strategies
  • +1 more
11

The heaviest domain is AHV Virtualization at 20%, and that is where lost points cost you the most. Certilum scores you per domain so you can see the difference between a knowledge gap and a formatting problem.

Note from the vendor record: Official price on the Nutanix certification page (NCP-MCI 7.5 exam, 75 questions, 120 min, 3000/6000 scaled, English/Japanese). The Nutanix certification FAQ states USD 199 per attempt for NCP and USD 299 for NCM-MCI (minor discrepancy). Official exam page

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