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The NKPA course specifies that air-gapped deployments and centralized fleet management of multiple clusters are advanced features of NKP, requiring theNKP Ultimatelicense tier. The Ultimate tier includes support for air-gapped environments (via Air-Gapped Bundles) and fleet management capabilities, such as attaching and managing multiple clusters under a single management plane, which is critical for the national defense company’s scenario.

The Nutanix Cloud Native (NCP-CN) 6.10 Study Guide states: “The NKP Ultimate license tier is required for air-gapped deployments and centralized management of multiple Kubernetes clusters, providing the necessary tools for secure, isolated environments.” This ensures the company can deploy and manage their three clusters in an air-gapped setup while maintaining strict data security.

Incorrect Options:

A. NKP Starter: The Starter tier lacks air-gapped and fleet management features.

C. NKP Pro: The Pro tier may support some advanced features but not air-gapped deployments or full fleet management.

D. NKP UI: This is not a license tier; it’s a UI component of NKP.

As per theNKPA 6.10 documentationunder “NKP Insights Prerequisites”, one of the essential requirements for deploying NKP Insights is thatcert-manageris installed and properly configured in the target workload cluster. Cert-manager provides the necessary certificates for secure communication and observability between the cluster components and the NKP Insights platform.

The documentation specifies:

“NKP Insights requires cert-manager to be installed on the target workload cluster. If cert-manager is not enabled, the cluster will be shown as unavailable (grayed out) for NKP Insights deployment.”

Without cert-manager, the Insights operator cannot validate or securely deploy its components, resulting in the cluster being unavailable for selection during the Insights enablement process.

The NKPA 6.10 documentation confirms that the proper method to customize application deployment (including disabling Velero) is by generating a configuration file using thenkp install kommander --initcommand. The file can then be modified to set custom specs and disable Velero, and finally deployed using the nkp install kommander command.

Exact extract:

“Generate a custom configuration file using --init, modify it for your specific environment (including disabling Velero), and deploy with the same nkp install kommander command.”

The NKPA course highlights thatNKP Insightsis the platform’s integrated solution for observability and analytics, providing predictive analytics to detect current and future anomalies in Kubernetes clusters. NKP Insights leverages machine learning to analyze metrics, logs, and events, identifying performance issues and potential failures proactively. After deploying a new cluster, the administrator can enable NKP Insights as a platform application in the workspace to meet the predictive analytics requirement.

The Nutanix Cloud Native (NCP-CN) 6.10 Study Guide states: “NKP Insights provides predictive analytics and anomaly detection for Kubernetes clusters, enabling administrators to monitor and optimize cluster performance.” This is deployed via the NKP UI or CLI by enabling the Insights application in the workspace.

Incorrect Options:

B. NCM Intelligent Ops: Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) Intelligent Ops is for broader infrastructure management, not Kubernetes-specific analytics.

C. Nutanix Pulse: Pulse is a telemetry service for Nutanix support, not for analytics.

D. NKP AI Navigator: This is not a recognized NKP component in the NKPA documentation.