Block 4 Unit 2

Question 1

What is a combination of software applications and an operating system tricked into thinking it has dedicated hardware?

Answer 1

Virtual Machine

Question 2

Do VMs have a BIOS, hard disk, memory, CPU, and Operating System? (T/F)

Answer 2

True

Question 3

______ is the physical computer hardware on which the virtualized environment resides.

Answer 3

Host Server

Question 4

The _____ or ______ is the link managing communications between the host server and virtualized environment.

Answer 4

Hypervisor, Virtual Machine Monitor

Question 5

A single virtual environment consists of only one guest OS. (T/F)

Answer 5

False

Question 6

________ virtualization is a method of simulation a user workstation so it can be accessed form a remotely connected device.

Answer 6

Desktop

Question 7

Name the three types of desktop virtualization architectures.

Answer 7

Presentation virtualization, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), User Profile Virtualization.

Question 8

What is the most common type of virtualization, partitioning the physical server into smaller virtual servers?

Answer 8

Server Virtualization

Question 9

Name the three commercial pieces of software that enables server utilization.

Answer 9

VM Ware, Citrix XCenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V

Question 10

What are the three main types of server virtualization?

Answer 10

Operating-system-level Virtualization, Hardware emulation, Para-virtualization

Question 11

______ virtualization allows multiple users to simultaneously access the same application installed on a central server.

Answer 11

Application

Question 12

What type of virtualization is used to pool physical storage from multiple, often separate, network storage devices into one logical storage device that is centrally controlled?

Answer 12

Storage Virtualization

Question 13

What are the common applications of virtualization technologies?

Answer 13

Load balancing, server pooling, server consolidation, training, development and testing, disaster recovery

Question 14

What type of hyper visor has the virtualization software installed directly on the machine hardware?

Answer 14

Type-1 (Bare-Metal)

Question 15

What type of hyper visor is installed onto an operating system?

Answer 15

Type-2 (Hosted)

Question 16

What is a disadvantage of a Bare-Metal hyper visor?

Answer 16

Limited hardware support due to built in drivers

Question 17

What are advantages of a Type 2 hyper visor?

Answer 17

Ease of installation and use, flexibility and cost-effectiveness for personal or small-scale virtualization

Question 18

What are the four main benefits of virtualization?

Answer 18

Increased efficiency and resource utilization, simplified disaster recovery and business continuity, reduced costs, and enhanced recource utilization.

Question 19

Server consolidation allows one server to virtually host many once-dedicated servers that may have been underutilized in their stand-alone state. (T/F)

Answer 19

True

Question 20

A Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) benefit increases a business’s return on investment (ROI) and is achieved by _______, _______, and ______.

Answer 20

Increased server utilization, Decreased infrastructure cost, lower cost to deploy new virtual environment.

Question 21

Name the three environment issues that virtualization addresses.

Answer 21

Reduced electrical energy consumption, Decreased cooling requirement, Decreased physical space.

Question 22

Dynamically allocating resources to workload is_____ balancing and improve the efficiency and autonomy of resource management.

Answer 22

Automatic load balancing

Question 23

What are the six main areas of concern regarding virtualization security?

Answer 23

Training & education, Change control, Asset tracking & management, Patch management, Authentication & Authorization, Logging & Auditing

Question 24

What board considers any changes or upgrades to base infrastructure whether physical or virtual?

Answer 24

Change control and review boards

Question 25

Organization should create and maintain detailed inventories of software and hardware. This applies to physical and virtual software and falls under the virtualization security concern of ____ and_____.

Answer 25

Lack of asset tracking management and unaccounted VM

Question 26

Define Patch Management.

Answer 26

virtual security concern is concerned with ensuring the servers and seemingly inconsequential components are patched and maintained so that the network infrastructure is not exposed to critical security issues.

Question 27

What shared operating system makes us of container-based virtualization and allows application on the same server to share the kernel?

Answer 27

Host operating system

Question 28

What are the logical partitions used to separate applications on the same server?

Answer 28

Containers

Question 29

The main factors limiting the number of virtual machines (VMs) that a host can support are_____ and _____.

Answer 29

Processing power, memory

Question 30

What is the minimum RAM requirements for one virtual Microsoft Server 2019?

Answer 30

512 MB

Question 31

What is the minimum HDD storage space requirements for Microsoft Server 2019?

Answer 31

32 GB

Question 32

What is the minimum amount of NICs required to operate a host server?

Answer 32

2 NIC

Question 33

What is the recommended amount of NICs required for optimal host server performance?

Answer 33

4 NIC

Question 34

For host servers without on-board graphics processing units (GPUs), an adaptor card will be required to be installed onto the motherboard utilizing the PCI Express slot.

Answer 34

True