6.4

What 2 things accurately describes a hypervisor?

-Allows virtual machines to interact directly with the hardware. -A layer of software that resides between the virtual operating system and the hardware.

What 2 are the benefits of installing integration services (IS) on a Hyper-V Windows virtual machine?

-Lets you cut and paste between the virtual machine and host. -Dramatically improves performance by installing Hyper-V aware drivers.

What is another name for virtual machines?

Guest operating systems

Provides the hardware necessary to create a virtualized environment.

Host machine

A thin layer of software that resides between the virtual machine and hardware. Allows virtual machines to interact with hardware.

Hypervisor

You want to create a virtual machine environment in which you can develop and test new software. Which virtualization benefit BEST describes the testing environment that you want to implement?

Sandbox

You have been tasked with creating a new software application and test the development of the software. You want an environment that can be isolated from the production network for the development and testing. What virtualization feature will BEST meet your application development requirements?

Sandbox virtualization

While creating a virtual machine, you decide to set it up to use an external network. What else do you need to do to enable the external network configuration?

Select a NIC using the virtual switch manager.

What 2 factors significantly determine the number of virtual machines that a host can accommodate?

The components installed on host machine. What has been allocated by the Hyper-V manager.

You want to create a virtualization environment that runs directly on the host machine's hardware to manage the virtual machines. What virtualization types should you use?

Type 1 hypervisor

As the network engineer for a large financial institution, you have been given the responsibility to provide a new financial desktop to the financial advisors in all company branch offices. The requirements for the software desktop include: It must be a virtualization solution. It must be hosted in the cloud by a third party. It must run on a tablet. What virtualization types BEST meets your desktop software requirements?

VDI

A file created to store data.

Virtual hard disk

A software implementation of a computer.

Virtual machine