Export policy controls access to which of the following?

• A. It defines which clients can access a volume via NFS/SMB and with what permissions; it is applied to LIFs and volumes.
• B. It defines user passwords.
• C. It defines RAID types.
• D. It specifies IP address ranges.

Answer: (A)

Export policy determines who can reach data over NFS or SMB and what they’re allowed to do with it. In ONTAP, you create a policy with rules that match clients (by IP, host name, or subnet) and specify access levels like read-only or read-write, plus other options. That policy is then applied to the relevant LIFs and volumes, so when a client connects, NetApp enforces the matching rule for that path. This is why it precisely controls access to a volume via NFS/SMB and with what permissions.

It doesn’t define user passwords (authentication), nor RAID types (data layout), and while IP ranges are used within the policy rules, the overall concept being tested is the access-control mechanism itself.