Quiz 7

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All of the following VMware adapted as core attributes of a virtual machine to an x86-based target platform except ___
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All of the following VMware adapted as core attributes of a virtual machine to an x86-based target platform except ___
redundancy
The Advanced Micro Devices equivalent to Intel's EPT (Extended Page Tables) is known as ____ page tables
nested
Sharing pages that have the same content in different virtual machines in an optimization known as ____
deduplication
Separating servers for security reasons to prevent having a malevolent intruder manages to compromise several servers at once is sometimes referred to as ____.
sandboxing
When mapping virtual machines, for each virtual machine the hypervisor needs to create a ___ page table that maps the virtual pages used by the virtual machine onto the actual pages the hypervisor gave it.
shadow
All of the following are additional advantages of virtual machines except
A virtual machines memory, disk images, and all the operating system tables are independent
Virtual machines have been around since the
1960s
Binary translation must be used if any of the following is true except
Virtual machine is currently running in user mode
The operating system running on top of the hypervisor is called the ____ operating system.
guest
A technique that modifies the operating system running on top of the hypervisor is known as __
paravirtualization
The VMware configuration file that has settings saved in a plain text format uses the ___ extension.VMXStandard PCs support only ____ primary disk partitions, no matter how big the disk is.fourAll of the following are examples of type 2 hypervisor except:Xen 1.0There are four supported protection modes or rings, current operating systems use which of the following:Ring 3, Ring 0What normally happens on CPUs without VT when the operating system running on top of the hypervisor (which thinks it is in kernel mode) executes an instruction that is allowed only when the CPU really is in kernel mode?The instruction fails and the operating system crashesAll of the following are advantages of virtual machines except:easy hardware crash recoveryA type ____ hypervisors is considered running on the bare metal.1When it come to I/O deices, the hypervisor can take the role of a virtual switch making it possible that each virtual machine has a ____ addressmedia access controlhandle interrupts, processes, scheduling, and interprocess communicationMicrokernelsWhen a module is loaded in each virtual machine as a pseudo device driver that talks to the hypervisor it is known asballooning