Nutanix Exam Risk Assessment & Management 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which Nutanix feature allows workloads to continue running at a secondary site during a primary site outage, directly mitigating site-level disaster risk?
- Nutanix Leap (Metro Availability) (Correct answer)
- Prism Central Alerts
- Erasure Coding
- NCC Health Checks
Correct answer: Nutanix Leap (Metro Availability)
Nutanix Leap with Metro Availability enables seamless workload failover to a secondary site, directly mitigating the risk of primary site outages.
Question 2: In risk management, what does RPO (Recovery Point Objective) measure in the context of a Nutanix deployment?
- The maximum time to restore a VM after failure
- The maximum acceptable data loss measured in time (Correct answer)
- The number of VM replicas maintained
- The time required to failover to a secondary cluster
Correct answer: The maximum acceptable data loss measured in time
RPO defines the maximum amount of data loss an organization can tolerate, measured as the time between the last backup and the point of failure.
Question 3: An organization wants to reduce the risk of configuration drift across multiple Nutanix clusters. Which Prism Central feature BEST addresses this?
- Capacity Runway forecasting
- Policy-based management and compliance dashboards (Correct answer)
- VM live migration (AHV vMotion)
- Storage tiering with cold data migration
Correct answer: Policy-based management and compliance dashboards
Prism Central's policy-based management and compliance dashboards allow administrators to enforce consistent configurations and detect drift across all managed clusters.
Question 4: Which Nutanix NCC (Nutanix Cluster Check) check result indicates that a risk requires IMMEDIATE attention before it causes an outage?
- INFO
- PASS
- WARN
- FAIL (Correct answer)
Correct answer: FAIL
A FAIL result in NCC indicates a critical issue that requires immediate attention as it poses a high risk of causing cluster instability or outage.
Question 5: A Nutanix cluster is running with only 2 nodes and RF2. What is the MAIN risk if one node fails?
- Performance degradation only, no data risk
- Complete cluster unavailability and potential data loss (Correct answer)
- Automatic failover to a cold standby node
- Only VMs on the failed node become unavailable
Correct answer: Complete cluster unavailability and potential data loss
With only 2 nodes and RF2, a single node failure means the remaining node cannot maintain the required data copies, causing complete cluster unavailability.
Question 6: During a risk assessment, an auditor asks about data-at-rest encryption in Nutanix. Which solution provides this capability to mitigate data theft risk?
- Nutanix Flow
- Software-Based Encryption (SED or Software) via Prism (Correct answer)
- Nutanix Calm
- AHV vSwitch configuration
Correct answer: Software-Based Encryption (SED or Software) via Prism
Nutanix supports data-at-rest encryption via Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) or software-based encryption configured through Prism, protecting against physical media theft.
Question 7: What is the PRIMARY purpose of conducting a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) before designing a Nutanix DR solution?
- To determine the number of VMs per node
- To identify which workloads are most critical and set appropriate RTO/RPO targets (Correct answer)
- To select the correct Nutanix hardware model
- To configure AHV networking VLANs
Correct answer: To identify which workloads are most critical and set appropriate RTO/RPO targets
A BIA identifies the criticality of each workload and the business impact of downtime, enabling appropriate RTO/RPO targets to be set for the DR solution.
Nutanix Exam Risk Assessment & Management 3
Which Nutanix feature allows workloads to continue running at a secondary site during a primary site outage, directly mitigating site-level disaster risk?