A junior administrator needs to evaluate a piece of freeware downloaded from the Internet but is concerned it may contain malware. The laptop runs Windows 11 with plenty of RAM and supports hardware virtualization. Which of the following purposes best justifies spinning up a new client-side virtual machine before executing the software?
Creating a sandbox VM lets staff run potentially dangerous or experimental software in a fully isolated guest OS. Because the VM's virtual disks, memory, and network settings are separated from the host, any malware or configuration mistakes stay inside the sandbox and can be discarded by reverting or deleting the VM. The other listed items describe cloud-service characteristics, not reasons to build a local VM.
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