Domain 4 - Virtualization and Cloud Computing

You were recently hired by a small startup company. The company is in a small office and has several remote employees. You have been asked to find a business service that would accommodate the company's current size but would also be able to scale as the company grows. The service needs to provide adequate storage as well as additional computing power. Which cloud service model would BEST fit these requirements?

IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)

A company has subscribed to a cloud service that offers cloud applications and storage space. Through acquisition, the number of company employees quickly doubled. The cloud service vendor was able to add cloud services for these additional employees without requiring hardware changes. Which of the following cloud concepts does this represent?

Rapid elasticity

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

Which of the following BEST describes the overall purpose of virtualization?

The ability to install and run multiple operating systems on a single physical machine.

Which term refers to a software implementation of a computer system that executes programs like a physical machine?

Virtual machine

Which of the following accurately describe a Type 2 hypervisor? (Select two.)

- Acts as a software application. - Can run on any OS.

Which of the following accurately describes a hypervisor? (Select two.)

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

Which of the following BEST describe a community cloud? (Select two.)

- Designed to be shared by several organizations. - Commonly hosted externally by a third party.

Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure are some of the most widely used cloud storage solutions for enterprises. Which of the following factors prompt companies to take advantage of cloud storage? (Select two.)

- Growing demand for storage - Need to bring costs down

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

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

Which key advantages do containers have over virtual machines? (Select two.)

- Smaller size and may only require a few megabytes - Faster start times for containerized applications

Which of the following factors significantly determine the number of virtual machines that a host can accommodate? (Select two.)

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

Which of the following BEST describes a community cloud implementation?

Designed to be shared by several organizations.

Rachel, an employee in the support department, wants to run a virtual machine on her computer to troubleshoot customer issues. Which of the following must she complete before virtualization will work on her computer?

Enable virtualization support in the BIOS settings.

What is another name for virtual machines?

Guest operating systems

Your company currently has an on-premises cloud solution that provides services to its employees. However, the company would like to begin offering some services to the public from the cloud. Which of the following cloud computing solutions would BEST meet your company's new cloud computing requirements?

Hybrid cloud

Which term describes the layer of software that resides between the virtual operating system and the physical hardware in a virtualization environment?

Hypervisor

What does the term cloud mean when referring to cloud computing?

It is a metaphor for the internet based on the basic cloud drawing used to represent a telephone network.

Which of the following BEST describes the Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud computing service model?

PaaS (Platform as a Service) delivers everything a developer needs to build an application on the existing cloud infrastructure.

Which of the following cloud computing solutions delivers software applications to a client either over the internet or on a local area network?

SaaS (Software as a Service)

Your company cloud service currently provides data storage, processing, and network connectivity that hosts several services and applications used by your employees. You want to transition to a cloud service that provides many of these services and applications natively without the IT department needing to constantly maintain and update the services and applications. In addition, the IT department wants to make sure that the cloud service provides employees with resources that are segregated from other employees. Which of the following cloud service solutions meets these requirements?

SaaS with a simple multi-tenancy implementation.

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.

Listen to exam instructions You want to create a virtualization environment that runs directly on the host machine's hardware to manage the virtual machines. Which of the following 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. Which of the following virtualization types BEST meets your desktop software requirements?

VDI (virtualization desktop infrastructure)

Which type of resource offers the following advantages? -Flexibility of access -Ease of use -Self-service resource provisioning -API availability -Service metering -Ability to try out software applications

cloud