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Risk Assessment & Mitigation Flashcards

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  1. An Avid NEXIS Engine experiences an unexpected power interruption with no UPS in place. Which risk to active Avid projects is MOST likely?

    Answer: Open MXF files being written at the time of failure may be corrupted

    MXF files open for write at the moment of power loss can have incomplete or corrupt container headers, rendering clips unplayable.

  2. A facility's Avid NEXIS reports 'Workspace Near Capacity' warnings. Which risk does continued operation near capacity introduce?

    Answer: Ingest and capture operations may fail mid-clip, producing incomplete media files

    When storage is nearly full, writes can fail mid-capture or mid-ingest, truncating MXF files and resulting in unusable partial clips.

  3. Which hardware configuration risk can cause Avid Media Composer to report 'Insufficient Bandwidth' errors during multicam playback on NEXIS?

    Answer: Multiple editors on the same workspace simultaneously streaming high-res media beyond aggregate bandwidth capacity

    NEXIS bandwidth is shared among all connected clients; too many simultaneous high-bitrate streams can saturate the pipe and cause dropped frames.

  4. An ACI instructor is assessing risk for a remote editing setup using Avid MediaCentral | Cloud UX. Which security risk is specific to cloud-based proxy editing workflows?

    Answer: Unencrypted proxy streams could expose confidential content if intercepted in transit

    Proxy streams that traverse the public internet without TLS encryption are vulnerable to interception, exposing unreleased or confidential content.

  5. A post facility's Avid workstations all run the same OS version and Avid software version. Which risk does this homogeneous environment introduce?

    Answer: A single OS-level security vulnerability or bad update could simultaneously affect all workstations

    A fully homogeneous environment means a single bad update or exploit can disable every workstation simultaneously, with no unaffected machines to fall back on.

  6. An editor's Media Composer session crashes repeatedly while working with a specific third-party AVX2 plug-in. Which risk mitigation step should be attempted first?

    Answer: Disable or remove the suspect plug-in and test stability without it

    Isolating the variable by removing the suspect plug-in is the lowest-impact first step in confirming whether it is the root cause of instability.

  7. A broadcast station's Avid AirSpeed playout server shows disk health warnings but continues to operate. Which risk does deferring maintenance on this system pose?

    Answer: An unplanned disk failure during a live broadcast could cause on-air interruption with no time for manual intervention

    AirSpeed is a live playout device; a disk failure mid-broadcast would cause an unrecoverable on-air outage with no time to switch to a backup.