Nutanix Certified Professional - Database Services (NCP-DB)

Nutanix Certified Professional - Database Services (NCP-DB)

This certification exam focuses on verifying the candidate"s skills and knowledge in deploying, managing, and optimizing Nutanix Database Service for relational databases.

Focus

The Nutanix Certified Professional - Database Services (NCP-DB) certification focuses on Nutanix Database Service

Exam Duration

The Nutanix Certified Professional - Database Services (NCP-DB) exam duration is N/A

Num of Question

The exam contains a total of 78 multiple-choice questions, 20 hands-on lab questions, and 1 unscored question (NCP-DB210/220, NCP-DB211/221 - 77 multi-choice, 20 hands-on lab and 1 unscored; note for the newer version: as per what we found, NCP-DB210 includes 2 hands on Labs)

Exam Fee

The exam fee is $400-$600.

Exam Validity

The CCRN-Pediatric certification is valid for N/A.

Prior Certification

• NCP-DB is dependent on some prior knowledge such as the fundamental Prisma and or virtual Infrastructure knowledge depending primarily on Nutanix

Exam Format

The Nutanix Certified Professional - Database Services (NCP-DB) exam is a Multi-choice and hands-on lab questions online or onsite

Passing Conditions

To pass Nutanix Certified Professional - Database Services (NCP-DB) exam, applicants must achieve a minimum score of Pass numeric score

Who Should Take

Database administrators, cloud architects, and IT professionals responsible for managing and deploying database services within a Nutanix environment.

• Database Administrator
• Cloud Architect
• IT Infrastructure Manager
• Data Center Administrator

Prerequisites

At least 6-12 months of experience working with databases, cloud infrastructure, and potentially Nutanix environments.

Or can substitute with certifications:

• Nutanix Foundation
• Nutanix General Training

Certification Process

• Step 1: Gain necessary experience and knowledge in databases, cloud infrastructure, and potentially Nutanix environments.
• Step 2: Register for the NCP-DB certification exam on the Nutanix site.
• Step 3: Pass the exam (with 76% to 90% requiring hands-on labs, for a multiple-choice one and with hands on labs as opposed to NCP-DB 200 class based course), if available pass then you can go as you could then have the NCP-DB certification

Domains with Weights

• Designing and Deploying a Database Service (%35): Understand database service components, service chaining, and service design. Deploy a database service on Nutanix, configure database service, deploy relational database, and optimize the database service for storage and performance.
• Managing and Optimizing a Database Service (%25): Learn how to manage cluster configuration, configure database, data storage, high availability, data protection, and apply performance best practices for databases.
• Designing, Deploying, and Managing Relational Databases (%30): Learn how to identify relational databases capabilities and limitations, deploying, configuring and monitoring database in the distributed architecture of the Nutanix hypervisor platform
• Troubleshooting and Supporting Database Services (%10): Understand problem-solving methodologies for database service-related issues, troubleshooting, best practices, and database service audits.