Question 1 - Nutanix NCP-CN Real Exam Questions [Feb 2026 Update]

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[Conduct NKP Fleet Management] A company recently deployed NKP. A Platform Engineer was asked to attach the existing Amazon EKS. A workspace and project were created accordingly, and resource requirements were met. What does the engineer need to do first to prepare the EKS clusters?

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Explanation

To attach an external Kubernetes cluster, such as Amazon EKS, to Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) for fleet management, NKP requires administrative access to the target cluster. The first preparatory step on the EKS cluster is to create a Service Account and bind it to the cluster-admin ClusterRole. This grants NKP the necessary permissions to discover resources, monitor the cluster, and manage its lifecycle. NKP will use the token associated with this service account to authenticate with the EKS API server.

Why Incorrect

A. Configure a ConfigMap according to EKS configuration: A ConfigMap is not a prerequisite for establishing the initial administrative connection. The primary requirement is for authentication and authorization, not configuration data storage.

C. Configure HAProxy to get connected to EKS clusters: Amazon EKS provides its own managed, highly available control plane endpoint. There is no need to configure a separate HAProxy instance for NKP to connect to it.

D. Deploy cert-manager in the EKS clusters: Cert-manager is used for managing TLS certificates for applications within a cluster. It is not a prerequisite for the initial attachment of the cluster to the NKP management plane.

References

Nutanix Kubernetes Platform Administration Guide v4.2

Registering an External Cluster: "Before you register an external cluster

ensure that you have the following: A service account with cluster-admin permissions on the external cluster." The guide provides the specific kubectl commands to create the service account and the necessary cluster role binding.

URL: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Kubernetes-Platform-Admin-Guide-v42:ecm-kps-register-external-cluster-t.html

Kubernetes Documentation

Managing Service Accounts: This official Kubernetes documentation explains the role of Service Accounts in providing an identity for processes that run in a Pod

which is the mechanism used by NKP to interact with the managed cluster's API.

URL: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/service-accounts-admin/

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