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Which operating system, when added as a virtual machine, requires a separate, licensed copy?
Microsoft Windows
Intel's VT-x and AMD's AMD-V are examples of ________.
Hardware virtualization support
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
What is another term for a snapshot?
Checkpoint
A point-in-time backup of a virtual machine is called a ________.
Snapshot
What does the abbreviation IaaS stand for?
Infrastructure as a service
What company makes ESXi?
VMware
A physical system that runs specialized virtualization software is called a(n) ________.
Host
Consolidating a system's physical and time resources is known as ________.
Resource pooling
What is a virtualization product that works on macOS?
Parallels Desktop
Which hypervisor runs in Windows, macOS, and Linux hosts?
VirtualBox
What is another term for a virtual machine?
Guest
Virtual environments are stored as ________.
A set of files
VMware's ESXi is an example of a(n) ________.
Bare-metal hypervisor (hypervisor installed directly on the hardware of a physical machine, between the hardware and the operating system (OS))
Which VMware product is used on macOS?
Fusion
What important benefit of virtualization provides significant cost savings in utility usage?
Power savings
What term refers a large number of networked, virtualized servers combined with a powerful front end?
Cloud computing
What is a popular VMM in the Linux world?
KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)
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
________ makes Office applications available for smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops.
Virtual application streaming
What is one important reason to implement virtualization?
System management
What is one of the advantages of Software as a Service?
You do not have to install the software.
Which of these tools is considered a Web application?
DropBox
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
Software or hardware that converts the commands to and from the host machine into an entirely different platform is known as a(n) ________.
Emulator
Apart from hardware virtualization support, the second concern is ________.
RAM
Which company was one of the earliest to make hypervisors, and arguably the one that put PC virtualization on the map?
VMware
Which of these virtualization products is a commercial product (i.e., not free)?
VMware Fusion
Hyper-V is a part of which distribution?
Windows 10
Virtualization occurs when a ________ running specialized software creates environments within unique single files that ________ other computers.
Single computer; replicate
What port numbers are used by FTP?
20 and 21
What term refers to encrypted tunnels that create private networks through the Internet?
VPNs
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