Hyper V

Question 1

Powershell Direct

Answer 1

Uses VM bus layer
No network layer needed
Must be on Host to connect to VM

Question 2

Enable Nested Virtualization PS

Answer 2

Set-VMProcessor

Question 3

NUMA

Answer 3

Memory regions directly access by the CPU

Low latency & High Speed

Question 4

Smart paging

Answer 4

Use of disk space when there is memory pressure on the host

On restarts of the VM

Question 5

Dynamic Memory

Answer 5

Must be disabled when allocating memory to a VM.

Question 6

Enhanced session mode

Answer 6

RDP capabilities using the VM bus

Question 7

Configure Secure Boot using PS

Answer 7

Set-VMFirmware

Question 8

Direct Device Assignment (DDA)

Answer 8

PCIe pass thru to VMs

Hardware to be disabled on Host first

Question 9

Update VM

Answer 9

Update-VMVersion

Question 10

Resource metering for VHDs

Answer 10

Set Max and Min IOPS for a virtual disk

Question 11

Differencing Disk

Answer 11

Parent - Child Disk relationships
Saves on storage space

New-VHD -ParentPath -Differencing

Question 12

Types of Checkpoints

Answer 12

Production and Standard

Question 13

Production Checkpoint

Answer 13

Point in time image that can be restored later
Uses VSS
Use in production environment

Question 14

Standard Ceckpoint

Answer 14

Captures state, data and hardware configuration

Testing & Troubleshooting

Question 15

Command to view checkpoints

Answer 15

Get-VMSnapshot

Question 16

Virtual Switch Types

Answer 16

Internal, External & Private

Question 17

Internal Switch

Answer 17

VMs communicate with VMs & the Host

Question 18

External Switch

Answer 18

VM commuicate with each other and the Hosts physical network. Uses SR-IOV

Question 19

Private switch

Answer 19

VMs only communicate with VMs

Question 20

VM MAC Address

Answer 20

Needed to communicate at Layer 2

Dynamic & Static MAC addressing

Question 21

Virtual Machine Queues

Answer 21

Packets stored on physical NIC which a password directly to the VM

Question 22

SR-IOV

Answer 22

Virtualization of physical NIC.
Bypasses to Hypervisor layer straight to the VM
Increase performance

Question 23

SR-IOV PS command

Answer 23

Enable-NetAdapterVMQ

Question 24

NIC Teaming

Answer 24

Forms a team out of 2 or more NICs

Question 25

NIC Teaming properties

Answer 25

Bandwidth aggregation Load balancing Fault tolerance

Question 26

NIC Teaming Modes

Answer 26

Switch Independent Static Teaming LACP

Question 27

Load balancing modes

Answer 27

Address Hash Hyper-V Port Dynamic

Question 28

RDMA

Answer 28

Data exchanged directly with application memory Increased performance Bypassing buffers on the OS.

Question 29

SET (Switch embedded teaming)

Answer 29

Physical Switch unaware of virtual NIC team | No role in the NIC teams distribution of traffic

Question 30

Members of a SET

Answer 30

Identical Network adapters (Model, Drivers, Manufacturer)

Question 31

Network Controller

Answer 31

Server Role | Manage, configure and monitor the virtual and physical network.

Question 32

PS Command for RDMA

Answer 32

Enable-NetAdapterRDMA

Question 33

Modify Memory on Active VM

Answer 33

Set-SCVirtualMachine

Question 34

Assign / Replace adapters on a team

Answer 34

Set-VMSwitchTeam