Week 5 Reflection: What Makes a Lab Safe Enough to Trust?

Use your virtualization boundary diagram and final lab record.

Write 150 to 250 words, or record an equivalent explanation, responding to this prompt:

A classmate says, "It's inside a VM, so the lab is automatically safe." Explain why that statement is incomplete.

Include:

• one host/guest boundary
• one network or shared-resource risk
• one preflight check
• one stop condition
• one reason snapshots or known-good state matter
• one piece of evidence you would preserve before reset
• one way you verified recovery

Finish with:

The virtualization control I would verify first is ________ because ________.