A+ Quiz Chapter 22 - Virtualization

Which of these tools is considered a Web application?

DropBox (pg. 848)

Which VMware product is used on macOS?

Fusion (pg. 836)

What is another term for a virtual machine?

Guest (pg. 831)

What does the abbreviation IaaS stand for?

Infrastructure as a Service (pg.850)

What is a popular VMN in the Linux world?

KVM (pg. 837)

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

Microsoft Windows (pg. 844)

What is a virtualization product that works on macOS?

Parallels Desktop (pg. 836)

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

Power Savings (pg. 831)

Apart from hardware virtualization support, the second concern is ______

RAM (pg. 839)

What is one important reason to implement virtualization?

System management (pg. 832)

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.

Task View icon (pg. 845)

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

VMware (pg. 835)

What company makes ESXi ?

VMware (pg. 846)

________ makes Office applications available for smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops.

Virtual application streaming (pg. 857)

Which hypervisor runs in Windows, macOS, and Linux hosts?

VirtualBox (pg. 839)

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

Vmware Fusion (pg. 836)

Hyper-V is a part of which distribution?

Windows 10 (pg. 833)

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

You do not have to install the software (pg. 853)

Virtual environment are stored as ____

a set of files (pg. 831)

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

bare-metal hypervisor (pg. 846)

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

emulator (pg. 837)

Intel's VT-x and AMD's AMD-V are examples of ________

hardware virtualization support (pg. 838)

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

host (pg. 831)

What is another term for a snapshot?

Checkpoint (pg. 833)

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

Cloud computing (pg. 848)

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 _______________.

rapid elasticity (pg. 856)

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

resource pooling (pg. 856)

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

single host computer; replicate (pg. 831)

A point-in-time backup of a virtual machine is called a _____

snapshot (pg. 833)

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).

synchronization apps (pg. 857)