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Nutanix NCP-MCA Exam - Topic 2 Question 93 Discussion

An administrator has configured a Protection Policy to take snapshots every 1 hour. This policy will take snapshots for all VMs categorized as Protection: Silver and Environment: Prod. In addition, there is a Security Policy that prevents categorized Environment: Prod VMs from communicating with categorized Environment: Dev VMs.A user deployed a VM using a Self-Service Marketplace item which assigned the Environment: Prod category to protect it and secure it, but the VM has no snapshots, even when the Protection Policy has the category Environment: Prod.What could be the issue?
A) VM doesn't have the category Protection: Silver.
B) VMs can't be in a Protection Policy along with Security Policy.
C) VMs must be added manually to the Protection Policy.
D) VM must be categorized as Environment: Dev.

Nutanix NCP-MCA Exam - Topic 2 Question 93 Discussion

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Question #: 93
Topic #: 2
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An administrator has configured a Protection Policy to take snapshots every 1 hour. This policy will take snapshots for all VMs categorized as Protection: Silver and Environment: Prod. In addition, there is a Security Policy that prevents categorized Environment: Prod VMs from communicating with categorized Environment: Dev VMs.

A user deployed a VM using a Self-Service Marketplace item which assigned the Environment: Prod category to protect it and secure it, but the VM has no snapshots, even when the Protection Policy has the category Environment: Prod.

What could be the issue?

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Suggested Answer: A

by Adelle at May 31, 2026, 11:21 AM

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Margret
4 days ago
What about B? Security Policy might block it.
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Armanda
9 days ago
I agree, A makes sense. Without that, no snapshots.
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Pamela
14 days ago
I think the issue is A. No Protection: Silver category.
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Micaela
19 days ago
Why would it need to be categorized as Environment: Dev? That seems off.
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Pearly
24 days ago
Sounds like a manual add to the Protection Policy is needed.
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Yoko
29 days ago
Wait, are you sure it can't be in both policies?
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Aaron
1 month ago
I agree, without that category, no snapshots will happen.
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Ashlyn
1 month ago
The VM needs Protection: Silver to get snapshots.
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Erick
1 month ago
I don't think the VM should be categorized as Environment: Dev, since it’s supposed to be Prod. That doesn't seem right.
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Abel
2 months ago
I feel like I read that VMs might need to be added manually to the Protection Policy if they aren't automatically included.
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Shawn
2 months ago
I'm not entirely sure, but I think there was a practice question about how Security Policies interact with Protection Policies. Could that be relevant here?
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Vanda
2 months ago
I remember something about categories being crucial for policies, so maybe the VM isn't categorized as Protection: Silver?
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