Nutanix Certified Professional - Business Continuity (NCP-BC)

The Nutanix Certified Professional - Business Continuity (NCP-BC) 7.5 exam will measure a candidate’s ability to plan, configure, execute, and troubleshoot disaster recovery solutions for complex scenarios within the Nutanix portfolio. Successful candidates demonstrate mastery of these skills and abilities.

Successful candidates for the NCP-BC 7.5 exam certification have approximately 2-3 years of holistic IT infrastructure experience, 1-2 years of experience with the Nutanix environment, and 6-12 months of Nutanix DR experience. The candidates are typically individuals who use Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) solutions, such as systems administrators, backup administrators, and architects. They can also be platform engineers, database administrators, and/or network engineers/administrators.

Knowledge Objectives

Section 1 – Interpret and Configure Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) Requirements

●      Determine prerequisites for BCDR schedule configurations

●      Harden a BCDR solution

●      Configure recovery plans, given BCDR requirements

●      Configure BCDR requirements

●      Configure network and storage, given BCDR requirements
 

Section 2 – Test Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) Solutions

●      Test DR failover

●      Test throughput and connectivity between sites
 

Section 3 – Perform Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) Tasks\

●      Perform self-service restore (SSR)

●      Restore from a recovery point or snapshot

●      Given an outage scenario, execute a plan for recovery

●      Perform a post-failover cleanup

●      Migrate from legacy domains to protection policies
 

Section 4 – Troubleshoot Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) Failures

●      Troubleshoot network issues causing DR failure

●      Diagnose reasons for failed replications

●      Troubleshoot third-party backup failures

●      Troubleshoot DR setup issues