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You are employed by a cloud service provider that offers virtual machine services along with virtual switches, storage, firewalls, and other virtual devices. What type of cloud environment does your employer sell?

What is the purpose of a shadow page table when a hypervisor is used?

What is the oldest version of Windows Server to support the use of Microsoft’s Hyper-V product?

You have just configured a virtual machine using default options where possible and turned it on for the first time. You discover the IP address of the guest is outside the IP address range of your physical network, but is still able to communicate with the Internet. What is the explanation for the difference in IP address?

In virtualized computing, a single computer is capable of supporting a single operating system.

What component of virtualization controls all physical memory, and thus has the ability to make any unused memory pages in each guest available for other virtual machines or the host computer?

You are working in a VMware vSphere based environment, and have been asked to create a parent virtual machine that can be shared amongst many users. One of the requirements of this desired setup is that individual user changes must be kept separate. What is the best implementation based on the requirements given?

What virtualization technology makes it possible to avoid overhead associated with software-managed shadow page tables?

Cloud services are highly reliant upon the use of virtualization technology.

An ISO image file uses what format to store a disc’s contents in a single file on a computer?