NCP-MCI-7.5 Study Plan: 4- and 8-Week Schedules for Nutanix Multicloud Infrastructure

3 weeks of reading, about 12–13 hours a week with the book, then a review week.

Week 1chapters 1–5 · about 12 hours Done

Read these chapters:
- 1. Deploying clusters: Foundation and node imaging
- 2. Deploying and scaling Prism Central
- 3. Virtual networking: switches, subnets and VPCs
- 4. Cluster storage and resiliency
- 5. Securing the cluster
After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
Free study notes for this week: Scaling out Prism Central, Choosing a Nutanix subnet: Basic VLAN, VLAN Subnet or overlay, Replication factor and cluster fault tolerance.
Look up any unfamiliar term in the NCP-MCI-7.5 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Section 1: Manage Clusters in a Multicloud EnvironmentSection 2: Manage Workloads in a Multicloud EnvironmentSection 4: Perform Operations and Monitoring in a Multicloud Environment

Week 2chapters 6–10 · about 12 hours Done

Read these chapters:
- 6. Managing virtual machines
- 7. Storage containers and storage policies
- 8. Workload storage and Volumes
- 9. Converting workloads: Nutanix Move
- 10. Securing workloads
After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
Free study notes for this week: AHV VM high availability: best effort and guaranteed, Nutanix Move: supported sources and targets.
Look up any unfamiliar term in the NCP-MCI-7.5 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Section 1: Manage Clusters in a Multicloud EnvironmentSection 2: Manage Workloads in a Multicloud EnvironmentSection 3: Perform DR and Data Protection in a Multicloud Environment

Week 3chapters 11–16 · about 13 hours Done

Read these chapters:
- 11. Protecting Prism Central
- 12. Disaster recovery from Prism Central
- 13. Disaster recovery from Prism Element
- 14. Capacity planning
- 15. Performance, alerts and logs
- 16. Cluster maintenance: expansion, NCC, LCM and reports
After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
Free study notes for this week: Nutanix DR: choosing a replication schedule, CCLM compared with OD-CCLM, Life Cycle Manager: connected sites, dark sites and DUO.
Look up any unfamiliar term in the NCP-MCI-7.5 glossary.

Week 4review Done

Go back through every chapter’s key takeaways. Anything you can’t explain without looking, re-read that section.
Re-read the common-trap callouts: they mark the answers that look right but aren’t.
Check the exam coverage map against Nutanix’s own outline, in case it has changed since the book was checked.
Read the official NCP-MCI-7.5 exam blueprint once more and tick off every objective.

7 weeks of reading, about 4–7 hours a week with the book, then a review week.

Week 1chapters 1–2 · about 4 hours Done

Read these chapters:
- 1. Deploying clusters: Foundation and node imaging
- 2. Deploying and scaling Prism Central
After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
Free study notes for this week: Scaling out Prism Central.
Look up any unfamiliar term in the NCP-MCI-7.5 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Section 1: Manage Clusters in a Multicloud Environment

Week 2chapters 3–4 · about 5 hours Done

Read these chapters:
- 3. Virtual networking: switches, subnets and VPCs
- 4. Cluster storage and resiliency
After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
Free study notes for this week: Choosing a Nutanix subnet: Basic VLAN, VLAN Subnet or overlay, Replication factor and cluster fault tolerance.
Look up any unfamiliar term in the NCP-MCI-7.5 glossary.

Week 3chapters 5–6 · about 5 hours Done

Read these chapters:
- 5. Securing the cluster
- 6. Managing virtual machines
After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
Free study notes for this week: AHV VM high availability: best effort and guaranteed.
Look up any unfamiliar term in the NCP-MCI-7.5 glossary.

Week 4chapters 7–8 · about 5 hours Done

Read these chapters:
- 7. Storage containers and storage policies
- 8. Workload storage and Volumes
After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
Look up any unfamiliar term in the NCP-MCI-7.5 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Section 1: Manage Clusters in a Multicloud EnvironmentSection 2: Manage Workloads in a Multicloud Environment

Week 5chapters 9–10 · about 5 hours Done

Read these chapters:
- 9. Converting workloads: Nutanix Move
- 10. Securing workloads
After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
Free study notes for this week: Nutanix Move: supported sources and targets.
Look up any unfamiliar term in the NCP-MCI-7.5 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Section 2: Manage Workloads in a Multicloud Environment

Week 6chapters 11–13 · about 7 hours Done

Read these chapters:
- 11. Protecting Prism Central
- 12. Disaster recovery from Prism Central
- 13. Disaster recovery from Prism Element
After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
Free study notes for this week: Nutanix DR: choosing a replication schedule, CCLM compared with OD-CCLM.
Look up any unfamiliar term in the NCP-MCI-7.5 glossary.

Week 7chapters 14–16 · about 7 hours Done

Read these chapters:
- 14. Capacity planning
- 15. Performance, alerts and logs
- 16. Cluster maintenance: expansion, NCC, LCM and reports
After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
Free study notes for this week: Life Cycle Manager: connected sites, dark sites and DUO.
Look up any unfamiliar term in the NCP-MCI-7.5 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Section 4: Perform Operations and Monitoring in a Multicloud Environment

Week 8review Done

Go back through every chapter’s key takeaways. Anything you can’t explain without looking, re-read that section.
Re-read the common-trap callouts: they mark the answers that look right but aren’t.
Check the exam coverage map against Nutanix’s own outline, in case it has changed since the book was checked.
Read the official NCP-MCI-7.5 exam blueprint once more and tick off every objective.

The hours are a rough guide to reading time with the book. Add hands-on practice as you go: some hands-on time on a Nutanix cluster, such as Community Edition makes every chapter stick.

NCP-MCI-7.5 study plan