Nutanix Exam Risk Assessment & Management 2

Question 1

Which Nutanix feature provides built-in data protection by storing multiple copies of data across nodes to mitigate hardware failure risk?

Accepted Answer

Replication Factor (RF)

Answer

Replication Factor (RF) defines how many copies of data are stored across nodes, protecting against hardware failure risk.

Question 2

A risk assessment for a Nutanix cluster identifies that a single node failure would impact production VMs. What is the MINIMUM recommended Replication Factor to tolerate one node failure?

Accepted Answer

RF2

Answer

RF2 stores two copies of data, allowing the cluster to tolerate the failure of one node without data loss.

Question 3

During a risk review, an administrator notices that the Nutanix cluster has no offsite backup. Which risk category does this PRIMARILY address?

Accepted Answer

Disaster recovery risk

Answer

The absence of offsite backup primarily exposes the organization to disaster recovery risk, where a site-level event could cause permanent data loss.

Question 4

In Nutanix, which tool provides proactive risk identification by monitoring cluster health, performance, and configuration against best practices?

Accepted Answer

Nutanix Insights (formerly Pulse)

Answer

Nutanix Insights (formerly Pulse) sends telemetry data to Nutanix Support to proactively identify risks and recommend best practices.

Question 5

Which risk mitigation strategy is BEST suited for addressing the risk of ransomware encrypting Nutanix VM snapshots?

Accepted Answer

Using immutable snapshots with WORM policies

Answer

Immutable snapshots with WORM (Write Once Read Many) policies prevent ransomware from encrypting or deleting snapshot data.

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