Three-week NCA plan

Section by section with the lab alongside. About an hour a day.

1. Day 1: rate yourself on the blueprint

   Mark every knowledge item ○ ◐ ●. That baseline drives the rest of the plan.

2. Days 2–3: NCI core

   CVM services, RF/FT, containers. Everything else builds on this.

3. Day 4: the rest of the portfolio

   Files / Objects / Volumes, NDB, NCM, NKP, NAI, EUC: product-to-use-case matching.

4. Day 5: tools

   Move, NGT, Foundation, Witness, SSR, X-Ray, Collector.

5. Days 6–7: VMs (in the lab)

   Create, hot-add, categories, vDisk migration, snapshots / recovery points.

6. Day 8: networking

   Bond modes and IPAM are favourite question topics.

7. Day 9: storage

   Which efficiency feature fits which workload, and which RF needs how many nodes.

8. Day 10: licensing
9. Day 11: cluster options

   DNS/NTP/SMTP/SNMP, FT levels, Prism Central registration, RBAC.

10. Day 12: hardware maintenance
11. Days 13–14: LCM

    Run inventory in the lab, then read the dark-site pages twice.

12. Day 15: health checks

    Run NCC and Logbay in the lab. Build a metric chart and an entity chart.

13. Day 16: alerts and Pulse
14. Day 17: support
15. Day 18: performance

    CPU ready, memory, latency vs IOPS.

16. Days 19–21: practice test + missed cards

    Run the whole practice test, then drill the missed questions and ◐ items until they're ●.