As with every technology vendor, there is always a training and certification offering. It’s important for companies to offer training and certification for their products and platforms.
· If there are not enough people in the market to
support and administer a company’s product then there will be a reluctance to
adopt a new product as potential customers would see this as a risk.
· Trained and certified administrators promote the
adoption of technology by enterprises and use technology to innovate solutions
for requirements.
Nutanix has a very comprehensive training and certification
offering, and in a recent Skillsoft report it was reported that IT professionals
with a certification ‘Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud
Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) certification’ was ranked the No. 3 top-paying IT
certification.
https://www.nutanix.com/blog/ncp-mci-certification-recognized-as-no-3-top-paying-it-certification
Nutanix certification is split across 4 levels
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Associate
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Professional
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Master
·
Expert
The Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) certification
validates your skills and abilities to navigate the Prism UI, extrapolate
information from the UI, and know how to use the UI for basic operational
tasks.
Successful candidates have approximately 6- 12 months of
holistic IT infrastructure experience as well as 3-6 months of Nutanix
virtualization experience.
The Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud
Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) certification measures your ability to interpret
documented standards and perform key administrative tasks, such deploying,
configuring, migrating, troubleshooting, expanding, and managing within a
Nutanix multicloud platform environment. It was also ranked the No.
3 top-paying IT certification.
Successful candidates have approximately 1-2 years of
holistic IT infrastructure experience, while having at least 6-12 months of
Nutanix administration experience
The Nutanix Certified Master - Multicloud Infrastruture
(NCM-MCI) certification measures your ability to analyze, evaluate, and
optimize platform performance, configuration and health. The exam will also
validate the candidate’s ability to remediate and evolve the platform to be in
compliance with business requirements.
Successful NCMs have approximately 3-5 years of holistic IT
infrastructure experience and 2-3 years of Nutanix virtualization experience.
The Nutanix Certified Expert - Multicloud Infrastructure
(NCX-MCI) tests a candidate’s ability to design enterprise-scale solutions
that support business-critical applications with service level agreements
specified by business stakeholders. Candidates must demonstrate mastery of the
Nutanix Design Method (derived from the Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) Program)
and present a solution that meets or exceeds customer requirements for:
Scalability, Resiliency, Performance, Manageability, Data Protection,
Recoverability, Regulatory Compliance, Security, and TCO/ROI.
Successful candidates are experienced and expert
technologists, Systems Engineers, Consultants, and Solution Architects, with
portfolios of design work, who drive adoption of Nutanix Multicloud
Infrastructure in the enterprise. The goal of this Certification is to prepare
candidates to engage with enterprise customers as an Architect and design
Nutanix Multicloud solutions that deliver real business value.
Each of these certificate levels have a dedicate ‘Technical’
path which you can choose to progress your certificate journey depending on
which role you’re in e.g. Infrastructure Admin, Database Admin, Storage Admin…….
Nutanix have a great certificate pathfinder which you can
use for planning your certificate journey
https://www.nutanix.com/certification-paths
Comprehensive training and certificate information can be
found
https://www.nutanix.com/support-services/training-certification/certifications
A great thing about Nutanix is that you can sit a certificate
exam for free if your able to attend a ‘Nutanix .Next on Tour’ event. Nutanix have resources available for you to
attempt as many exams as you wish – so look out for your next local ‘Nutanix
.Next on Tour’ event, sign-up to attend to do an excam for free and in the mean time get studying!!
