Nutanix Exam Risk Assessment & Management 5

Question 1

A Nutanix administrator is assessing the risk of a CVM (Controller VM) failure on a node. What is the EXPECTED cluster behavior when one CVM fails?

Accepted Answer

Other CVMs automatically handle I/O for the affected node transparently

Answer

Nutanix's distributed storage fabric allows other CVMs to transparently handle I/O for a failed CVM's node, ensuring continued cluster operations.

Question 2

In a risk assessment, which Nutanix storage policy MOST reduces the risk of data loss from a two-node simultaneous failure in a large cluster?

Accepted Answer

RF3 or Erasure Coding with FT2 tolerance

Answer

RF3 or Erasure Coding with Fault Tolerance 2 (FT2) allows the cluster to survive two simultaneous node or disk failures without data loss.

Question 3

Which risk is MOST directly mitigated by enabling Nutanix Data-at-Rest Encryption (DARE) with external key management (KMS)?

Accepted Answer

Risk of data exposure if storage drives are physically removed or stolen

Answer

DARE with external KMS ensures that data on drives is unreadable without the encryption keys, mitigating the risk of data exposure from physical drive theft.

Question 4

An organization's risk register lists 'insufficient audit logging' as a medium risk for their Nutanix environment. Which Prism feature BEST addresses this risk?

Accepted Answer

Configuring Prism audit trails and SIEM integration via syslog

Answer

Prism's audit trail feature combined with syslog/SIEM integration ensures all administrative actions are logged and forwarded to a centralized security monitoring system.

Question 5

A risk assessment identifies that a key administrator is the only person with Nutanix cluster credentials. Which risk management control BEST addresses this single point of human failure?

Accepted Answer

Implementing role-based access control (RBAC) with multiple admin accounts

Answer

Implementing RBAC with multiple administrator accounts eliminates the dependency on a single person and ensures cluster management continuity.

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