Nutanix Platform Professional (NPP) Exam Nutanix Administration on NOS 4.0 (NPP4) I. Exam Overview The Nutanix Platform Professional (NPP) Exam is an online exam for evaluating IT professionals working with the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform. Platform.
II. Audience Nutanix professionals who install, configure, monitor, manage, and troubleshoot the Nutanix Cluster.
III. Exam Preparation Attending the Nutanix Administration Course (4.x) is recommended, but not required, prior to attempting this exam. Students have three options for this training: 1. NPP Update Training: IT professionals who hold an NPP3 certification and have recent experience administering a Nutanix cluster should take NPP Update training available in the New Courses section of this portal. 2. Nutanix Administration Course: Self-Paced Online: IT professionals with limited experience with Nutanix, or who ne ed a more complete refresher of their the ir skills should take the self-paced online administration course available in the New Courses section of this portal. 3. Nutanix Administration Course: Instructor-led Training: IT professionals who are unfamiliar with Nutanix, or prefer to ask questions from an experienced IT trainer during a 2-day, live course, should register for an instructor-led training class, offered by Nutanix training centers around the globe. See http://www.nutanix.com/schedules/education/ for http://www.nutanix.com/schedules/education/ for a list of upcoming classes.
IV. Exam Details
The exam consists of 50 multiple choice and true/false questions. You will be allowed up to two hours to complete the exam. A minimum of 80% is required to pass pa ss the exam. You are allowed three (3) attempts at passing the exam. If you do not successfully complete the exam after three attempts, you will need to contact the Nutanix Education team (
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V. Key Topics Topics to Review Review the following course topics to improve your chances of successfully completing the exam: Understanding Storage Management Nutanix Command Center (Prism) Nutanix Cluster configuration Native backup and recovery configuration Nutanix cluster troubleshooting
Failure scenario analysis
VI. Key Study Documents
Nutanix Administration Course (NOS 4.X) Self-Paced Online o Instructor-led Training o NPP Update Training (NOS 4.0) – designed for NPP3 certified professionals who plan to update their certification for NOS 4.0 Nutanix Technical Publications (http://portal.nutanix.com) o Nutanix Command Reference Guide o Nutanix Setup Guide o Nutanix Web Console Guide
VII. Exam Security Nutanix reserves the right to invalidate a candidate exam if the candidate violates exam security polices. This includes copying and redistribution of exam items and taking an exam using a false identity.
