Exam 1: Introduction to Virtual Computing

You are employed by a cloud service provider that offers virtual machine services along with virtual switches, storage, firewalls, and other virtual devices. What type of cloud environment does your employer sell?

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Question 21

What is the difference between a Storage Area Network and a Network Attached Storage device?

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Question 22

The VDI disk file format is native to what virtualization platform?

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Question 23

What type of cloud computing service provides hardware infrastructure along with necessary operating system software for running client applications?

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Question 24

What is the difference between a thick client and a thin client?

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Question 25

How do the three types of cloud computing differ from each other?

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Question 26

What is the purpose of the NX/XD CPU feature present in most modern Intel and AMD processors?

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Question 27

What open standard was developed as a result of collaboration between NASA and Rackspace?

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Question 28

What is the difference between a fixed size virtual disk and a dynamic virtual disk?

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Question 29

Match each item with a statement below.

A virtual disk file that allocates space on the hosting hardware only as it is required to satisfy the needs of the guest VM.

virtual appliance

Used to create additional logical cores that can be used by the hypervisor to improve the performance of virtual machines.

bridged mode

A technique used by hypervisors to cause a guest VM to release infrequently used memory pages.

server sprawl

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A virtual disk file that allocates space on the hosting hardware only as it is required to satisfy the needs of the guest VM.

Used to create additional logical cores that can be used by the hypervisor to improve the performance of virtual machines.

A technique used by hypervisors to cause a guest VM to release infrequently used memory pages.

A method of separately storing any changes to a parent VM made by a specific user such that it does not affect the parent VM.

An accumulation of specialized and departmental servers that increases costs of computer hardware and maintenance, as well as power consumption.

A piece of software that enables the sharing of hardware resources between the hosting operating system and virtual environments.

A personal computer that runs its own operating system and applications.

A standard created by industry wide vendors in various areas of virtualization for the purpose of copying or moving virtual machines between different platforms.

A software package that includes a virtual machine containing a preinstalled and configured application that's ready to use.

A networking mode that allows traffic from a virtual machine to pass through unchanged to the physical network as though it were directly attached.

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Question 30

A virtual machine can't share the use of a network adapter with the host.

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Question 31

How might a software developer benefit from the use of virtualization?

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Question 32

Why has VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) become such a major player in IT data centers?

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Question 33

What is the Open Virtualization Format, and how does it facilitate the migration of virtual machines between hypervisors?

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Question 34

You have been tasked with creating a virtual machine that will be providing hosted services on the physical network, and possibly the Internet. What network mode should be used?

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Question 35

What hypervisor uses a special guest called Domain 0 that loads along with the hypervisor and is used to directly access the hardware?

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Question 36

Many of the concepts used in today's virtualization products date back to IBM mainframe computers for the 1970s.

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Question 37

What does a configuration file for a virtual machine contain?

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Question 38

What statement regarding the use of Hyper-V is accurate?

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Question 39

What is the purpose of a shadow page table when a hypervisor is used?

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You are employed by a cloud service provider that offers virtual machine services along with virtual switches, storage, firewalls, and other virtual devices. What type of cloud environment does your employer sell?

What is the difference between a Storage Area Network and a Network Attached Storage device?

The VDI disk file format is native to what virtualization platform?

What type of cloud computing service provides hardware infrastructure along with necessary operating system software for running client applications?

What is the difference between a thick client and a thin client?

How do the three types of cloud computing differ from each other?

What is the purpose of the NX/XD CPU feature present in most modern Intel and AMD processors?

What open standard was developed as a result of collaboration between NASA and Rackspace?

What is the difference between a fixed size virtual disk and a dynamic virtual disk?

A virtual machine can't share the use of a network adapter with the host.

How might a software developer benefit from the use of virtualization?

Why has VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) become such a major player in IT data centers?

What is the Open Virtualization Format, and how does it facilitate the migration of virtual machines between hypervisors?

You have been tasked with creating a virtual machine that will be providing hosted services on the physical network, and possibly the Internet. What network mode should be used?

What hypervisor uses a special guest called Domain 0 that loads along with the hypervisor and is used to directly access the hardware?

Many of the concepts used in today's virtualization products date back to IBM mainframe computers for the 1970s.

What does a configuration file for a virtual machine contain?

What statement regarding the use of Hyper-V is accurate?

What is the purpose of a shadow page table when a hypervisor is used?

Working With Oracle Virtual Box

Working With Vmware Workstation

Data Center Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Installing and Working With Microsoft Hyper-V

Working With Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Machine Manager

Working With Vmware Vsphere

Working With Vmware Vcenter Server

Implementing Vmware and Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructures

Using Virtual Computing in a Cloud Environment

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