NCP-MCA practice questions, page 3 of 3, with answer review and explanations.
Question 11
A blueprint was developed for deploying a standard 3-tier hosting environment for a company's applications. The blueprint includes a load balancer, multiple web servers, a database server, and a small test application. During testing of the blueprint, the application fails to connect to the database. The cause is found to be the database software is still installing when the application starts. Which method most efficiently prevents the application from starting before the database?
Use a local install instead of downloading
Create a loop to retry connection
Create a service dependency
Use a sleep statement in a start script
Question 12
Which Prism Central setting must first be configured in order to add users to a Project?
HTTP Proxy
Authentication Directory
Pulse
Local User Role Mapping
Question 13
A customer is trying to deploy an application with Calm and receives this error for a Linux VM: What is the cause of this error within the blueprint?
Connection section has a network adapter selected for the Address box in Connection section.
Connection section has no network adapters selected for the Address box in Connection section.
Connection Type has a protocol selected.
Connection Type has no protocol selected.
Question 14
Which method will result in unique names per VM when scaling out a Service in a Calm Blueprint?
Guest OS customization using sysprep contains <ComputerName>@@{name}@@</ComputerName>.
Service VM Name field contains the macro variable @@{calm_array_index}@@.
Call an external Python eScript that uses an IPAM API to register the VM name in DNS.
Set the VM Name field to allow user edits at launch so the user can enter a custom value at launch.
Question 15
Which two providers are supported in Calm? (Choose two.)