Chapter 22 Quiz (ITN107) - Virtualization

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