As databases become more distributed, business-critical, and automation-driven, organizations need professionals who can deploy, manage, protect, and troubleshoot database environments at scale. The Nutanix Certified Professional – Database Automation (NCP-DB) 7 certification validates the skills required to deploy, administer, optimize, and maintain database workloads using Nutanix Database Service (NDB).
Is This Certification Right for You?
You'll be a strong fit for the NCP-DB certification if you have 1-2 years of database experience and at least 6 months of hands-on experience with Nutanix Database Service (NDB) running on Nutanix platforms, either on-premises or in the public cloud. Typical candidates include Database Administrators, Database Developers, Automation Engineers, Nutanix partner personnel, and OEM vendors responsible for managing database environments. Completing the Nutanix Database Management & Administration (NDMA) course is recommended, but not required.
What You’ll Be Tested On
The NCP-DB 7.5 exam reflects real-world database automation and administration tasks across four domains. You'll encounter scenarios that span deployment, monitoring, operations, maintenance, and administration of NDB environments, including:
- Deploying and Configuring NDB Solutions: deploy and configure NDB appliances, establish network connectivity, configure core services such as DNS, NTP, SSL certificates, and SMTP, and implement high availability, service resiliency, and multi-cluster deployments.
- Monitoring Alerts and Storage Usage: monitor and resolve alerts, manage alert policies and retention settings, evaluate storage utilization, monitor snapshots and clones, assess storage efficiency, and leverage Time Machine dashboards to track database protection and storage consumption.
- Operating and Maintaining Database Environments: register database server VMs and databases, provision databases across supported engines, manage patching and maintenance windows, troubleshoot operational issues, analyze alerts and logs, generate diagnostic bundles, create and refresh database clones, restore databases from snapshots or remote clusters, and manage Time Machine protection policies.
- Administering NDB Environments: create and manage software, compute, network, database parameter, and Windows domain profiles; perform NDB upgrades; add and manage Nutanix clusters; configure networking; implement role-based access control (RBAC); integrate with Active Directory; and utilize NDB APIs, CLI tools, and automation capabilities.
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Get Started Now—Schedule Your Exam
The NCP-DB 7.5 exam is now open for scheduling, with appointments starting September 1, 2026. You can take the exam remotely or in-person at a PSI testing center.
For a limited time, you can take the NCP-DB 7.5 exam at no cost by using voucher code NCPDB7NEW when scheduling your exam. Don't wait, this offer is available only to the first 500 candidates.
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Get Certified with Confidence—Take the NDMA Course
Looking for a structured way to prepare? The Nutanix Database Management & Administration (NDMA) course is designed to help you build the skills measured on the NCP-DB exam. The course teaches participants how to install, configure, operate, and manage Nutanix Database Service (NDB), while providing hands-on experience with key database automation concepts and workflows.
To help position you for success, the course equips you with the skills and knowledge to:
- Understand database-as-a-service (DBaaS) concepts, architecture, and business benefits
- Configure and manage NDB components, profiles, and multi-cluster environments
- Implement role-based access control (RBAC), users, groups, and permissions
- Monitor, troubleshoot, protect, clone, and restore databases using NDB tools and workflows
- Manage snapshots, Time Machine, Data Access Management (DAM), and database lifecycle operations
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As organizations increasingly rely on database automation to improve operational efficiency, consistency, and resiliency, professionals who can provision, protect, patch, clone, and recover databases at scale are becoming indispensable. The NCP-DB 7 certification validates those capabilities, directly aligning with the day-to-day responsibilities of database administrators and automation specialists managing modern database services with Nutanix Database Service.
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