NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer – ONTAP v5 — Question 15

You are the administrator of your company's NetApp ONTAP clusters. You are asked to protect the data during replication over the wire from one ONTAP cluster to another, to prevent malicious man-in-the middle attacks.
In this scenario, which feature satisfies this requirement?

Answer options

• A. NetApp Volume Encryption
• B. cluster peer encryption
• C. NetApp Storage Encryption
• D. SMB encryption

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is B, cluster peer encryption, as it specifically secures data in transit between ONTAP clusters, protecting against interception. Options A and C relate to data-at-rest encryption, while option D pertains to SMB protocol encryption, which does not apply to cluster-to-cluster replication.