Ch 22: Virtualization, Review

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What is another term for a snapshot? (p. 833) *

Checkpoint

What term refers a large number of networked, virtualized servers combined with a powerful front end? (p. 848) *

Cloud computing

Which of these tools is considered a Web application? (p. 848) *

DropBox

Which VMware product is used on macOS? (p. 836) *

Fusion

What is another term for a virtual machine? (p. 831) *

Guest

What is a popular VMM in the Linux world? (p. 837) *

KVM

Which operating system, when added as a virtual machine, requires a separate, licensed copy? (p. 844) *

Microsoft Windows

What is a virtualization product that works on macOS? (p. 836) *

Parallels Desktop

Building on top of an infrastructure provided by an IaaS, a provider might add a complete deployment and management system to create this for a customer. (p. 851) *

Platform as a Service

What important benefit of virtualization provides significant cost savings in utility usage? (p. 831) *

Power savings

Apart from hardware virtualization support, the second concern is _______________. (p. 839) *

RAM

You are completing this assignment in Google Forms, which is an example of _______________. (p. 849-853) *

Software as a Service

The term virtual desktop commonly refers to the multiple desktop environments you can access in modern operating systems, such as clicking the _______________ in Windows 10 and going to a second desktop. (p. 845) *

Task View icon

What company makes ESXi? (p. 846) *

VMware

Which company was one of the earliest to make hypervisors, and arguably the one that put PC virtualization on the map? (p. 835) *

VMware

Which of these virtualization products is a commercial product (i.e. not free)? (p. 836) *

VMware Fusion

Hyper-V is a part of which distribution? (p. 833) *

Windows 10

Virtualized operating systems use the same _______________ features as real operating systems, with user names, passwords, permissions, and so on. (p. 833) *

security

Virtualization occurs when a ________________ running specialized software creates environments within unique single files that _______________ other computers. (p. 831) *

single computer; replicate

A point-in-time backup of a virtual machine is called a _______________. (p. 833) *

snapshot

A business would us a _______________ cloud if it wants flexibility and complete ownership of its data. (p. 854) *

private

You are most likely interacting with the _______________ cloud when you are using software, platforms, and infrastructure on the Internet. (p. 854) *

public

A(n) _______________ removes the need for an operating system on the VM-supporting machine. (p. 845) *

bare-metal hypervisor

VMware's ESXi is an example of a(n) _______________. (p. 846) *

bare-metal hypervisor

In an operating system, what typically handles very low-level interaction among hardware and software? (p. 834) *

supervisor

_______________ virtualization involves running a virtual machine on your local system regardless of whether the virtual machine file is stored locally or on a central server. (p. 838) *

client-side

Large groups of networked, virtualized servers providing simple interfaces to a vast array of computing resources are referred to as _______________. (p. 848) *

cloud computing

A _______________ cloud is more like a private cloud paid for and used by multiple organizations. (p. 854) *

community

Be sure to use _______________ names for virtual machines. This will spare you a lot of confusion when you have multiple VMs on a single host. (p. 842) *

descriptive

With virtualization, you can place multiple virtual servers on a single physical system, substantially reducing the use of _______________. (p. 831) *

electricity

Software or hardware that converts the commands to and from the host machine into an entirely different platform is known as a(n) ________________. (p. 837) *

emulator

Intel's VT-x and AMD's AMD-V are examples of _______________. (p. 838) *

hardware virtualization support

A physical system that runs specialized virtualization software is called a(n) ________________. (p. 831) *

host

The most popular reason for virtualization is easier system _______________. (p. 832) *

management

The number of VMs that can run simultaneously on a host is limited by the amount of system _______________. (p. 839) *

memory

Using Cloud-based features, you can easily expand the number of servers, even spread them out geographically, with just a click of the switch. This ability is called _______________. (p. 856) *

rapid elasticity

Consolidating a system's physical and time resources is known as ________________. (p. 856) *

resource pooling

Microsoft's hypervisor is known as _______________. (p. 835) *

Hyper-V

Most VMMs enable you to use either the host machine's optical drive or a(n) _______________ to install the guest operating system. (p. 844) *

ISO file

What does the abbreviation IaaS stand for? (p. 850) *

Infrastructure as a service

What is one important reason to implement virtualization? (p. 832) *

System management

_______________ makes Office applications available for smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops. (p. 857) *

Virtual application streaming

Which hypervisor runs in Windows, macOS, and Linux hosts? (p. 839) *

VirtualBox

What is one of the advantages of Software as a Service? (p. 853) *

You do not have to install the software.

Virtual environments are stored as _______________. (p. 831) *

a set of files

Cloud file storage services, like Dropbox and Box allow people to move to the cloud for some of their storage needs. These services include _______________ with their desktop versions, so that you can easily have the same version of every file in multiple places (desktop, laptop, online). (p. 857) *

synchronization apps

One way to consolidate hardware is to replace complex desktop PCs with simple but durable _______________, which may not need hard drives, fans, or optical drives. (p. 832) *

thin clients

A form of SaaS, _______________ is an on-demand software delivery model that allows the use of an application via the internet. (p. 857) *

virtual application streaming

Once you have installed a hypervisor of your choice on a machine, you will have a(n) _______________ that acts as the primary source to create, start, stop, save, and delete guest virtual machines. (p. 842) *

virtual machine manager (VMM)

_______________ perform chores that previously required multiple physical boxes. (p. 832) *

virtual machines


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