Chapter 18

Which of these tools is considered a Web application?

DropBox

Which VMware product is used on Mac systems?

Fusion

What is another term for a virtual machine?

Guest

What are the most limiting factors in a host s ability to run virtual machines?

Hard disk space and RAM

What does the abbreviation IaaS stand for?

Infrastructure as a service

Which operating system, when added as a virtual machine, requires a separate, licensed copy?

Microsoft Windows

What is a virtualization product that works on Mac operating systems?

Parallels Desktop

What important benefit of virtualization provides significant cost savings in utility usage?

Power savings

What is one important reason to implement virtualization?

System management

What company makes ESXi?

VMware

Which company was one of the earliest to make hypervisors, and arguably the one that put PC virtualization on the map?

VMware

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

VMware Fusion

Which hypervisor runs in Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux hosts?

VirtualBox

Hyper-V is a part of which distribution?

Windows 8 Pro

What is one of the advantages of Software as a Service?

You do not have to install the software.

Virtual environments are stored as _______________.

a set of files

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

emulator

Intel s VT-x and AMD s AMD-V are examples of _______________.

hardware virtualization support

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

host

VMWare s ESXi is an example of a(n) _____________.

. bare-metal hypervisor

Many virtual machine managers replace the CTRL-ALT-DELETE key sequence with _______________.

CTRL-ALT-INSERT

What term refers a large number of networked, virtualized servers combined with a powerful front end?

Cloud computing

The term bare-metal virtualization software refers to _______________.

hypervisors

Consolidating a system s physical and time resources is known as ________________.

resource pooling

Virtualization occurs when a ________________ running specialized software creates environments within unique single files that _______________ other computers.

single computer; replicates