Books
Writing a blog post explains one idea. Writing a book forces you to organize many ideas into a path: decide what comes first, what depends on what, and where a reader might get lost. That discipline is why I write books — teaching a topic is still one of the best ways to understand it better.
Mastering NCP-MCI 7
My first book is a complete study guide for the Nutanix Certified Professional – Multicloud Infrastructure certification, focused on the NCP-MCI 7.5 exam and the platform generation behind it: AOS 7.5, AHV 11.0, and Prism Central 7.5.
It was built by correlating the official exam blueprint with the Nutanix documentation and the perspective I developed working as a Subject Matter Expert for Nutanix University. The result is a framework rather than a checklist: every topic answers what the concept is, why it matters, and how it fits into the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure platform. The manuscript was shared with members of the Nutanix University certification team before publication, and the foreword was written by Joshua Andrews, Senior Staff Technical Certification Developer at Nutanix.
The book includes 110 original practice questions with detailed explanations, a CLI quick reference, a glossary, and a pre-exam checklist. The questions were created from scratch to test concepts — they are not real exam questions, and they are not meant to be.
English edition — 448 pages, paperback and Kindle:
The story behind the book is in From exam blueprint to a 448-page Nutanix book.
Mastering NCP-MCI 7 · Edizione Italiana
The Italian edition is not a simple translation. It follows the same platform-first framework across its 484 pages, keeps the technical terminology in English where engineers will actually meet it — AOS is AOS, Prism Central is Prism Central — and explains the reasoning around those terms in Italian, so readers can move faster from terminology to understanding. It adds end-of-chapter exam reminders and a CLI quick reference for ncli, acli, and nuclei.
This edition carries a dedicated foreword by Christian Turcati, Sr. Director Systems Engineering for Nutanix Southern Europe, alongside the original one by Joshua Andrews.
Edizione italiana — 484 pages, paperback and Kindle:
The reasoning behind an Italian edition is in NCP-MCI 7 now speaks Italian.
Becoming a Nutanix Certified Professional – Business Continuity 7
The second book has a story readers of this blog already know a piece of: before flying to Chicago for .NEXT, I used my blueprint-first method to prepare for the NCP-BC 7.5 Beta exam — an exam with very limited public study material at the time — turning the exam structure into a focused learning path and reviewing it offline on the plane. I sat the Beta, and passed. That method became a book.
Becoming a Nutanix Certified Professional – Business Continuity 7: Everything You Need for the NCP-BC 7.5 Exam walks through the complete Nutanix Disaster Recovery stack — replication schedules from Async to Metro Availability, recovery plans, failover execution and failback, cloud DR with NC2 on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, and a symptom-first approach to troubleshooting. Every chapter maps one-to-one to a section of the official NCP-BC 7.5 exam blueprint, targeting Nutanix Disaster Recovery and Prism Central pc.7.5.
It is deliberately compact: 119 pages, in English, with 61 exam-level practice questions with detailed explanations, available in paperback and Kindle:
Why these books exist
The exam is the target, but understanding the platform is the point. A certification badge is useful — the platform knowledge is what stays. If the books help people prepare with more structure and less noise, they have done their job.
Writing them is also part of a bigger picture: the same work on certification content, the SME role, and the MCX community all feed each other.