Nutanix Certified Professional - Database Automation (NCP-DB) — Requirements & Free Practice
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Nutanix Certified Professional - Database Automation (NCP-DB)
Nutanix certification for deploying, administering, optimizing, and troubleshooting database workloads using Nutanix Database Service (NDB).
Licensing authority: Nutanix
Initial by examination
- Appointments
- The official live launch allows appointments beginning 2026-09-01. Specific seats in the requested 2026-11-25 through 2027-02-28 horizon were not booked or guaranteed; the scheduler requires login. No institutional or school arrangement is stated in these applicable materials.
- Audience
- Approximately 1-2 years of database experience and at least 6 months of NDB experience are the intended candidate profile, not an independently stated mandatory enrollment prerequisite.
- Award
- Passing the NCP-DB 7.5 examination achieves NCP-DB 7 certification; this is the initial route, not the separate recertification policy.
- Delivery
- English only in this submission. Choose remote proctoring or an available test-center appointment; these are delivery choices for the same examination, not separate exams. Remote testing requires registration and valid identification; test-center candidates arrive 15 minutes early with valid government-issued ID.
- Holder Validity
- The earned NCP-DB 7 certification remains valid for three years; this does not establish an examination or credential-program calendar cutoff.
- Training
- Course attendance is explicitly not required; NDMA is recommended preparation.
Nutanix Certified Professional - Database Automation (NCP-DB)
- Provider
- PSI
- Format
- Multiple-choice and multiple-response knowledge examination; remote proctoring or in-person at select test centers; English delivery selected.
- Time limit
- 120 minutes
- Passing score
- 3000 on a scaled score range of 1000-6000
- Exam fee
- $200 USD per attempt
Examination outline
Deploy and Configure an NDB Solution
- Deploy an NDB VM
- Configure an NDB instance
- Deploy and configure NDB High Availability
Monitor Alerts and Storage Usage within an NDB Implementation
- Manage Alerts
- Monitor and manage storage usage
Operate and Maintain an NDB Environment
- Register database server VMs and databases
- Provision databases
- Patch NDB-managed entities
- Troubleshoot NDB operations
- Clone databases
- Restore source databases
- Manage Time Machine
Administer an NDB Environment
- Manage NDB profiles
- Perform NDB software upgrades
- Add Nutanix clusters to NDB
- Manage networks in NDB
- Manage access controls
- Use NDB APIs and end clients
Examination sources
- NCP-DB 7.5 Exam Blueprint Guide
page 7, section 3 Objectives Covered in the NCP-DB 7.5 Exam; complete scope continues through page 17
- NCP-DB 7.5 Exam Blueprint Guide
page 7, section 3.1 software version boundary
- NCP-DB 7.5 Exam Blueprint Guide
page 7, section 3.2 Objectives, controlling introductory sentence
- NCP-DB official certification details
Exam Blueprint Guide, English download link
- NCP-DB 7.5 Exam Blueprint Guide
page 4, section 1.5 objective allocation development
- NCP-DB 7.5 Exam Blueprint Guide
page 4, section 1.2 Number of Questions
- NCP-DB 7.5 Exam Blueprint Guide
page 4, section 1.4 Passing Score
- NCP-DB official certification details
Exam Details, Format
- NCP-DB version 7 live-exam announcement
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- NCP-DB 7.5 Exam Blueprint Guide
page 4, section 1.6 Languages through section 1.8 Scheduling and Taking the Exam
- NCP-DB 7.5 Exam Blueprint Guide
page 4, section 1.8 remote identification and secure delivery
- NCP-DB 7.5 Exam Blueprint Guide
page 5, section 1.8 continuation, test-center identification
- NCP-DB 7.5 Exam Blueprint Guide
page 4, section 1.3 Pricing