MCQ On FOV

MCQs on Principles of Virtualization
Prepared by - Nirmalya Mukhopadhyay
Virtualization Technologies
1. Which of the following correctly represents different types of mobile patterns ?
All of the mentioned
Answer: a
Explanation: You can define the features in software and hardware that enables flexibility as conforming
to one or more of the mobility patterns.
2. Point out the wrong statement :

Abstraction enables the key benefit of cloud computing: shared, ubiquitous access
Virtualization assigns a logical name for a physical resource and then provides a pointer to that physical
resource when a request is made
All cloud computing applications combine their resources into pools that can be assigned on demand to
users
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Answer: c
Explanation: Several important cloud computing approaches use a strictly hardware-based approach to
abstraction.
3. Which of the following type of virtualization is also characteristic of cloud computing?

Storage
Application
CPU
Answer: d
Explanation: To enable these characteristics, resources must be highly configurable and flexible.
4. The technology used to distribute service requests to resources is referred to as:

load performing
load scheduling
load balancing
Answer: c
Explanation: Load balancing is an optimization technique.
5. Point out the correct statement :

A client can request access to a cloud service from any location
A cloud has multiple application instances and directs requests to an instance based on conditions
Computers can be partitioned into a set of virtual machines with each machine being assigned a workload
Answer: d
Explanation: Alternatively, systems can be virtualized through load-balancing technologies.
6. Which of the following software can be used to implement load balancing?

Apache mod_balancer
Apache mod_proxy_balancer
F6’s BigIP
Answer: b
Explanation: Load balancing can be used to increase utilization and throughput, lower latency, reduce
response time, and avoid system overload
7. Which of the following network resources can be load balanced?

Connections through intelligent switches
DNS
Storage resources
Answer: d
Explanation: Load balancing provides the necessary redundancy to make an intrinsically unreliable
system reliable through managed redirection.
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8. Which of the following is a more sophisticated load balancer?
workload managers
workspace managers
rackserve managers
Answer: a
Explanation: They determine the current utilization of the resources in their pool.
9. An ______ is a combination load balancer and application server that is a server placed between a
firewall or router.
ABC
ACD
ADC
Answer: c
Explanation: An Application Delivery Controller is assigned a virtual IP address (VIP) that it maps to a
pool of servers based on application specific criteri
10. Which of the following should be replaced with the question mark in the following figure ?
Abstraction
Virtualization
Mobility Pattern
Answer: b
Explanation: Virtualization is a key enabler of the first four of five key attributes of cloud computing.
Hypervisors
1. Which type of Hypervisor is shown in the following figure ?
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Type 1
Type 2
Type 3
Answer: a
Explanation: :A hypervisor running on bare metal is a Type 1 VM or native VM.
2. Point out the wrong statement:

Load balancing virtualizes systems and resources by mapping a logical address to a physical address
Multiple instances of various Google applications are running on different hosts
Google uses hardware virtualization
Answer: c
Explanation: Google performs server load balancing to distribute the processing load and to get high
utilization rates.
3. Which of the following is another name for system virtual machine?

hardware virtual machine
software virtual machine
real machine
None of the mentioned
Answer: a
Explanation: Some virtual machines are designed to run only a single application or process and are
referred to as process virtual machines.
4. Which of the following provide system resource access to virtual machines?

VMM
VMC
VNM
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Answer: a
Explanation: VMM is another name for Hypervisor.

A virtual machine is a computer that is walled off from the physical computer that the virtual machine
is running on
Virtual machines provide the capability of running multiple machine instances, each with their own
operating system
The downside of virtual machine technologies is that having resources indirectly addressed means there
is some level of overhead
Answer: d
Explanation: This makes virtual machine technology very useful for running old versions of operating
systems, testing applications in what amounts to a sandbox.
6. An operating system running on a Type __ VM is a full virtualization.

1
2
3
Answer: a
Explanation: Because it is a complete simulation of the hardware that it is running on.
7. Which of the following is Type 1 Hypervisor?

Wind River Simics
Virtual Server 2005 R2
KVM
LynxSecure
Answer: d
Explanation: Type 1 VMs have no host operating system because they are installed on a bare system.
8. Which of the following is Type 2 VM?

VirtualLogix VLX
VMware ESX
Xen
LynxSecure
Answer: c
Explanation: Xen is used by Amazon Web Services to provide Amazon Machine Instances (AMIs).
9. Which of the following will be host operating system for Windows Server?
VirtualLogix VLX
Microsoft Hyper-V
Xen
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Answer: b
Explanation: Type 2 virtual machines are installed over a host operating system.
10. Which of the following should be placed in second lowermost layer for the following figure ?
Host Operating System

Software
VM
Answer: a
Explanation: Examples of Type 2 Virtual Machine Monitors are Containers, KVM, Microsoft Hyper V
and Parallels Desktop for Mac
11. What does the following figure represent ?
vSquare cloud infrastructure

vCube cloud infrastructure
vSphere cloud infrastructure
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Answer: c
Explanation: vSphere is the branding for a set of management tools and a set of products previously
labeled VMware Infrastructure.

Some hypervisors are installed over an operating system and are referred to as Type 2 or hosted VM
All CPUs support virtual machines
On a Type 2 VM, a software interface is created that emulates the devices with which a system would
normally interact
Answer: b
Explanation: Not all CPUs support virtual machines, and many that do require that you enable this
support in the BIOS.
13. Which of the following type of virtualization is found in hypervisor such as Microsoft’s Hyper-V ?
paravirtualization
full virtualization
emulation
Answer: a
Explanation: It is the host operating system that is performing the I/O through a para-API.
14. In _______, the virtual machine simulates hardware, so it can be independent of the underlying
system hardware.
paravirtualization
full virtualization
emulation
Answer: c
Explanation: A guest operating system using emulation does not need to be modified in any way.

Full virtualization requires that the host operating system provide a virtual machine interface for the
guest operating system and that the guest access hardware through that host VM
Guest operating systems in full virtualization systems are generally faster than other virtualization
schemes
A process virtual machine instantiates when a command begins a process
Answer: a
Explanation: An operating system running as a guest on a paravirtualization system must be ported to
work with the host interface.
16. In a ____________ scheme, the VM is installed as a Type 1 Hypervisor directly onto the hardware.
paravirtualization
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full virtualization
emulation
Answer: b
Explanation: All operating systems in full virtualization communicate directly with the VM hypervisor.
17. Which of the following operating system support operating system virtualization?
Windows NT
Sun Solaris
Windows XP
Compliance
Answer: b
Explanation: This type of virtualization creates virtual servers at the operating system or kernel level.
18. Which of the following is a service that aggregates servers into an assignable pool ?
VMware vStorage
VMware vNetwork
VMware vCompute
Application Services
Answer: c
Explanation: VMware vSphere is a management infrastructure framework that virtualizes system, storage,
and networking hardware to create cloud computing infrastructures.
19. _________ is a service that creates and manages virtual network interfaces.
VMware vStorage
VMware vNetwork
VMware vCompute
Application Services
Answer: b
Explanation: VMware vStorage is a service that aggregates storage resources into an assignable pool.
20. Which of the following allows a virtual machine to run on two or more physical processors at the
same time?
Virtual SMP
Distributed Resource Scheduler
vNetwork Distributed Switch
Storage vMotion
Answer: a
Explanation: The virtualization layer that abstracts processing, memory, and storage uses the VMware
ESX or ESXi virtualization server.
Machine Imaging
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1. Which of the following product migrate files from one datastore to another datastore?
vNetwork Distributed Switch
Storage vMotion
vMotion
Answer: b
Explanation: :Virtual machine uses the datastore continues to run.

A part of the DRS called the distributed power management (DPM) module can manage the power
consumption of systems
DMS monitors network connections, provides firewall services, and enables the use of third-party
switches
Physical computers can be standalone hosts or a set of clustered systems
Answer: b
Explanation: DVS has capability to maintain a network runtime state for virtual machines as they are
migrated from one physical system to another.
3. ________ virtualization abstracts networking hardware and software into a virtual network that can be
manage
Storage
Network
Software
Answer: b
Explanation: The key feature that makes virtual infrastructure so appealing for organizations
implementing a cloud computing solution is
flexibility.
4. Which of the following visualization is most commonly achieved through a mapping mechanism where
a logical storage address is translated into a physical storage address?
Storage
Network
Software
Answer: a
Explanation: Block-based storage such as those used in SANs use a feature called a Logical Unit
Identifier (LUN) with specific addresses stored in the form of an offset called the Logical Block Address
(L

A virtual network can create virtual network interfaces
Instantiating a virtual machine is a very slow process
You can make machine images of systems in the configuration that you want to deploy or take snapshots
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of working virtual machines
Answer: b
Explanation: Instantiating a virtual machine is a very fast process, typically only a few seconds in length.
6. A _______ image makes a copy or a clone of the entire computer system inside a single container such
as a file.
system
software
hardware
Answer: a
Explanation: The system imaging program is used to make this image and can be used later to restore a
system image.
7. Which of the following is open standard for storing a system image?

OVF
PPF
VOF
Compliance
Answer: a
Explanation: OVF stands for Open Virtualization Format.
8. _________ is used by Amazon Web Services to store copies of a virtual machine.

AMI
EMI
IMI
Application services
Answer: a
Explanation: AMI stands for Amazon Machine Image.
9. AMI imaging service is provided by Amazon for:

private use
public use
pay-per-use
Answer: d
Explanation: An AMI can be for public use under a free distribution license, for pay-per-use with
operating systems such as Windows, or shared by an EC2 user with other users who are given the
privilege of access.
10. Which of the following runs on Xen Hypervisor?

Azure
AWS EC2
AWS EC3
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Answer: b
Explanation: The term virtual appliance is meant to differentiate the software image from an operating
virtual machine.
Porting Applications
1. Which of the following vendor is offering optimization appliances for VMware’s infrastructure ?
Expand Networks
Certeon
Replify
Answer: b
Explanation: Most virtual appliances are used to run a single application and are configurable from a Web
page.
2. Point out the correct statement:

Virtual appliances are a relatively new paradigm for application deployment
External network virtualization cannot be done using network switches and VLAN software
All imaging programs can take snapshots of systems
Answer: a
Explanation: Cloud computing is the major reason for the interest in them and for their adoption.
3. Simple Cloud API is useful for applications written in :

PHP
Python
Scala
Answer: a
Explanation: Other methods may be needed to make applications easily portable.
4. The __________ solution creates a virtual application appliance as an architectural layer between the
Windows or the UNIX operating system and applications.
AppOne
AppZero
AppSoft
Answer: b
Explanation: The running application in AppZero changes none of the registry entries or any of the files
on the Windows Server.
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Cloud computing applications have the ability to run on virtual systems
Systems (VMs running applications), storage, and network assets cannot be virtualized
Applications that run in datacenters are captive to the operating systems and hardware platforms that they
run on
Answer: b
Explanation: VMs running applications have sufficient flexibility to give acceptable distributed WAN
application performance.
6. _______ creates a container that encapsulates the application and all the application’s dependencies
within a set of files.
VAA
VAS
VSA
Answer: a
Explanation: Dependencies include DLL, service settings, necessary configuration files, registry entries,
and machine and network settings.
7. Which of the following layer serves as the mediator for file I/O, memory I/O, and application calls and
response to DLLs?
application
client
virtualization
Answer: c
Explanation: The running application in AppZero changes none of the registry entries or any of the files
on the Windows Server.
8. Which of the following application delivery platform’s main focus is on desktop installations?
Microsoft App-V
Microsoft Hyper
Amazon EC2
Answer: a
Explanation: Installations can be done over the network after the AppZero application appliance is
installe
9. Which of the following is most widely used technique for abstraction?

Load balancing
Load scheduling
Load scaling
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Answer: a
Explanation: With load balancing, system requests are directed to appropriate systems on demand.
10. Which of the following is a potent cloud-building technology?

vSphere
HyperCube
vCube
Answer: a
Explanation: vSphere can create virtual machines, virtual datastores, and virtual networks, and move
these resources about while the system is active.
Capacity Planning
1. Which of the following correctly describes the following figure?
Capacity Planning
Performance Planning
Network Planning
Answer: a
Explanation: Capacity planning measures the maximum amount of work that can be done using the
current technology and then adds resources to do more work as needed

Capacity planning seeks to match demand to available resources
Capacity planning examines what systems are in place, measures their performance, and determines
patterns in usage that enables the planner to predict demand
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Resources are provisioned and allocated to meet demand
Answer: d
Explanation: Performance tuning and optimization is not a primary goal of capacity planners.
3. What is the relation of capacity attribute to performance?

same
different
similar
Answer: b
Explanation: With capacity, you are concerned about how much work a system can do, whereas with
performance, you are concerned with the rate at which work gets done.
4. What does L in LAMP stands for?

Lamp
Linux
Lone
Answer: b
Explanation: LAMP stacks based on Red Hat Linux are more common than the other distributions.

Network capacity is one of the easiest factors to determine
A system uses resources to satisfy cloud computing demands that include processor, memory, storage,
and network capacity
Scaling a system can be done by scaling up vertically to more powerful systems
Answer: a
Explanation: Network performance is affected by network I/O at the server, network traffic from the
cloud to Internet service providers, and over the last mile from ISPs to homes and offices.
6. Which of the following is one of the major categories of Amazon Machine Instances that you can
create on the Amazon Web Service?
WAMP
XAMPP
LAMP
Answer: c
Explanation: On Amazon Web Services, machine instances are offered for both Red Hat Linux and for
Ubuntu.
7. Which of the following is used as substitute for PHP as scripting language in LAMP?
Scala
Perl
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Ruby
Answer: b
Explanation: Either Perl or Python is often substituted for PHP as the scripting language use
8. Which of the following RDBMS is used by LAMP?

SQL Server
DB2
MySQL
Answer: c
Explanation: MySQL is the database server developed by the Swedish company MySQL AB, owned by
Oracle Corporation through its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
9. Which of the following is critical step in capacity planning?

Predict the future based on historical trends and other factors
Load the system until it is overloaded
Deploy or tear down resources to meet your predictions
Answer: b
Explanation: Knowing when systems fail under load and what factor(s) is responsible for the failure is the
critical step in capacity planning.
10. Which of the following is hardest factor to determine?

Network performance
Network capacity
Network delay
Answer: b
Explanation: It is the goal of a capacity planner to identify the critical resource that has this resource
ceiling and add more resources to move the bottleneck to higher levels of deman
Baseline Measurements
1. Which of the following is another name for resources mentioned in the following figure ?
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System Metrics
System Baseline
System Parameters
Answer: a
Explanation: A machine instance (physical or virtual) is primarily defined by four essential resources.

Page views or hits on the Web site, as measured in transactions per second
Transactions completed on the database server, as measured by hits per second
Performance logs are a primary source of data that everyone should have available for planning purposes
Answer: c
Explanation: There are two important overall workload metrics in the LAMP system.
3. Which of the following command is used to display the level of CPU activity in Linux?
sep
sav
sar
Answer: c
Explanation: sar is installed in Linux as part of the sysstat package.
4. Which of the following tool captures time-dependent performance data from resources such as a CPU
load?
RBTool
RRDTool
Perfmon
Answer: b
Explanation: RRDTool stands for Round Robin Database tool.

The total workload might be served by a single server instance in the cloud
Performance logs are the only source of performance measurements
The amount of resources to be deployed depends upon the characterization of the Web servers involved,
their potential utilization rates, and other factors
Answer: b
Explanation: Performance logs are not the only source of performance measurements.
6. Which of the following tool is used for Web site monitoring service in LAMP?
Alertra
Cacti
Collectd
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Answer: a
Explanation: Cacti is RRDTool graphing module.
7. Which of the following is used as Open source distributed monitoring system?

Dstat
GraphClick
Ganglia
Answer: c
Explanation: GraphClick is a digitizer that can create a graph from an image.
8. Which of the following is not a commercial third-party Web site performance monitor?
Keynote
Munin
Gomez
Answer: b
Explanation: Munin is open source network resource monitoring tool.
9. Which of the following is available as both open source and commercial version?
Zabbix
ZenOSS
SiteUpTime
Answer: b
Explanation: ZenOSS is used to monitor operations.
10. Which of the following testing seeks to answer maximum load that my current system can support?
Load
Security
Navigation
Answer: a
Explanation: Load testing is also referred to as performance testing, reliability testing, stress testing, and
volume testing.
Resource Ceilings
1. Which of the following resource(s) represents the bottleneck in the current system that limits the
system’s performance?
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ROM
Resource ceiling
Resource Parameters
Answer: b
Explanation: Depending upon a server’s configuration, any resource can have a bottleneck removed, and
the resource ceiling then passes onto another resource.

Load testing software is a large product category with software and hardware products
Cloud computing offers virtual solutions
Load testing is useful in testing the performance of only Web servers
Answer: c
Explanation: Load testing is useful in testing the performance of not only Web servers, but also
application servers, database servers, network throughput, load balancing servers, and applications that
rely on client-side processing.
3. Which of the following application can replay requests to Web servers?

HTTPerf
Perfmon
Autobench
Answer: a
Explanation: This tool run the requests from a single client, which can be a resource limitation of its own.
4. Which of the following is often a bottleneck in Web servers?

Network I/O
RAM
Disk
Answer: a
Explanation: Network I/O (reaches its maximum 100-percent utilization at about 50 percent of the tested
load, and this factor is the current system resource ceiling.

Most load balancers allow you to weight the requests going to a specific server with the goal of serving
more requests to less powerful systems and fewer requests to more powerful systems
more requests to more powerful systems and fewer requests to less powerful systems
fewer requests to more powerful systems and more requests to less powerful systems
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Answer: b
Explanation: When you have multiple virtual servers that are part of a server farm and have a load
balancer in front of them, you can use your load balancer to test your servers’ resource ceilings.
6. Which of the following resource has following graph structure for web servers ?
CPU
RAM
Disk
Answer: a
Explanation: Web sites prefer to scale out using many low-powered servers instead of scaling up with
fewer but more powerful servers.
7. Which of the following resource has following graph structure for web servers?
Network I/O
RAM
Disk
Answer: d
Explanation: Whatever performance measurement tool you use, the goal is to create a set of resource
utilization curves.
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8. What does WnsP represents in the following formula?
WT = Σ(WSnP WSnV)
workload of the virtual servers
workload of your physical server
sum over all the Web servers
Answer: b
Explanation: In this equation, WSnP represents the workload of your physical server(s) and WSnV is the
workload of the virtual servers (cloud-based server instances) of your infrastructure.
9. A master/slave MySQL replication architectural scheme is used for ________ database applications.
medium size
large
smaller
Answer: c
Explanation: As sites grow and the number of transactions increases, developers tend to deploy databases
in a federated architecture.
10. Which of the following performance analysis tool lets you save its state for Windows?
MMS
CloudWatch
Microsoft Management Console
Answer: c
Explanation: In the Amazon Web Service, the statistics monitoring tool is called Amazon CloudWatch,
and you can create a performance monitoring console from the statistics it collects.
Server and Instance types
1. Which of the following type is missing in the following figure ?
High-CPU
High-Disk
High-ROM
Answer: a
Explanation: In cloud computing, you can often increase capacity on demand quickly and efficiently.
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Use of different machine instance sizes is an attempt to create standard servers
Reducing the variability between servers makes it easier to troubleshoot problems and simpler to deploy
and configure new systems
A server with the same set of software, system configuration, and hardware should perform similarly if
given the same role in an infrastructure
Answer: d
Explanation: As much as possible, you also should assign servers standardized roles and populate those
servers with identical services.
3. Which of the following instance has 68.4GB of memory and 26 EC2 Compute Units?
High-Memory Quadruple Extra Large Instance
Small Instance
Micro Instance
High-CPU Extra Large Instance
Answer: a
Explanation: I/O Performance is high and API name is m2.4xlarge.
4. Which of the following instance is used by default in AMI?

Small Instance
Micro Instance
Answer: b
Explanation: Small Instance has 1.7GB memory and 1 EC2 compute unit.

In practice, there is less performance variability in cloud machine instances
Capacity planning seeks to compare the capability of one system against another system
Capacity planning provides the service with the best operational parameters at the lowest cost
Answer: a
Explanation: This variability may be due to your machine instances or storage buckets being moved from
one system to another system.
6. Which of the following graph correctly describes relative costs and efficiencies of different physical
and virtual servers?
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Answer: a
Explanation: This type of graph allows you to add the appropriate server type to your infrastructure while
performing a cost analysis of the deployment.
7. Which of the following instance has API name: m2.4xlarge?

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Small Instance
Micro Instance
Answer: d
Explanation: High-CPU Extra Large Instance has 7GB of memory and 20 EC2 Compute Units.
8. EC2 Compute Unit is the equivalent of a _____ GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor.
1
2
4
Answer: a
Explanation: We may add or substitute measures that go into the definition of an EC2 Compute Unit.
9. Which of the following instance has lowest performance in AMI?

Auto Bench
Auto Scaling
Auto Performance
Answer: b
Explanation: Not all cloud computing infrastructures automatically manage your capacity.
10. Which of the following cloud computing infrastructures automatically manage your capacity?
Small Instance
Answer: b
Explanation: API name for small instance is m1.small.
Network Capacity
1. How many aspects needs to be considered while assessing network capacity?

one
two
three
Answer: c
Explanation: There are three aspects to assessing network capacity.

For a cloud-based virtual computer, the network interface may be a highly variable resource
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Increasing the variability between servers makes it easier to troubleshoot problems and simpler to deploy
and configure new systems
A server with the different set of software, system configuration, and hardware should perform similarly
if given the same role in an infrastructure
Answer: a
Explanation: Cloud vendor moves virtual systems around on physical systems or reconfigure its network
pathways on the fly to accommodate demand
3. Which of the following is not the aspect considered for network capacity?
Network traffic from the cloud to the network interface
Network traffic to and from the network interface at the server
Network traffic from the cloud through your ISP to your local network interface
Answer: d
Explanation: It may be a physical or virtual interface or server.
4. Which of the following utility is used to monitor traffic in Windows?

Microsoft Network Monitor
Microsoft Performance Monitor
Microsoft Perfmon
Answer: a
Explanation: To measure network traffic at a server’s network interface, you need to employ network
monitor.

Tools are available that can monitor a cloud network’s performance at geographical different points and
over different third-party ISP connections
Apparent Networks company makes WAN network monitoring software
Network Capacity is easy to measure in a reliable way
Answer: c
Explanation: Network Capacity isn’t easy to measure in a reliable way.
6. Which of the following packet sniffer was formerly called Ethereal?

TCPdump
Wireshark
Ntop
Answer: b
Explanation: Regardless of which of these tools you use, the statistics function of these tools provides a
measurement of network capacity as expressed by throughput.
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7. Which of the following factor can be considered to determine WAN Capacity?
Routing and switching protocols
Overall system traffic
Network interconnect technologies
Answer: d
Explanation: These factors are highly variable and unlike.
8. __________ scaling allows you to use a virtual system to run more virtual machines
Horizontal
Vertical
Out
Answer: b
Explanation: Vertical Scaling run more daemons on the same machine instance, or take advantage of
more RAM (memory) and faster compute times.
9. Which of the following is used to evaluate your own cloud application’s network performance?
Path Cloud
PathView Cloud
View Cloud
Answer: b
Explanation: It can also create scorecard of a cloud network.
10. Scaling _____ indefinitely leads you to an architecture with a large number of servers.
out
in
vertically
Answer: a
Explanation: Horizontal scaling allows you to run distributed applications more efficiently and is
effective in using hardware more efficiently.
PaaS Application Frameworks
1. Application frameworks provide a means for creating ________ hosted applications using IDE.
PaaS
SaaS
CaaS
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Answer: b
Explanation: PaaS IDEs run the gamut from a tool that requires a dedicated programming staff to create
and run to point-and-click graphical interfaces.

Drupal is used in major Web sites and organizes vast amounts of information
Fourspace is often associated with blogging tools
FourSquare works with photos, imports information from other social tools, and allows very attractive
Web sites to be created by average users
Answer: a
Explanation: Drupal is extensively used and has broad industry impact, and it is a full-strength developer
tool.
3. Which of the following is based on the notion of information management and organization?
CMS
DMS
MIS
Answer: a
Explanation: Notion of a Web site as a CMS adds a number of special features to the concept that
includes rich user interaction, multiple data sources and extensive customization.
4. Which of the following environment best describes WorkXpress?

3GL
4GL
5GL
Answer: c
Explanation: 5GL environments have no programming requirement and you can host your application
anywhere.
5. Point out the wrong statement related to common characteristics of SOA:

They separate data-handling from presentation (user interface)
They support the incorporation of business rules, logic, and actions
They support packaging and deployment of applications
Answer: d
Explanation: These services differ in which language they use, support for different rendering
technologies, and in other features.
6. Which of the following module feature is provided by Drupal CMS?

Traffic management
OpenID authentication
User interface creation tools
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Answer: d
Explanation: The Drupal core by itself contains a number of modules.
7. Which of the following programming language solves problems by acting on constraints and inputs?
3GL
4GL
5GL
Answer: c
Explanation: Force.com uses 4GL programming language environment.
8. ___________ PaaS application delivery platform creates SOA applications that work on several
different IaaS vendors.
AppOne
Eccentex AppBase
Ez Publish
Answer: b
Explanation: Eccentex is a Culver City, California, company founded in 2005 that has a PaaS
development platform for Web applications.
9. Which of the following AppBase tool allows you to assign access rights to different objects in the
system?
Security Roles Management
Dashboard Designer
Report Builder
Answer: a
Explanation: Security roles can be assigned in groups without users, and users can be added later as the
application is deploye
10. Which of the following should be replaced with question mark in the figure?
CaaS
SaaS
IaaS
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Answer: b
Explanation: A good PaaS system has certain desirable characteristics that are important in developing
robust, scalable, and hopefully portable applications.
11. Which of the following layer of Wolf platform architecture is depicted in the following figure?
upper
middle
lower
Answer: c
Explanation: In Wolf, the data and transaction management conforms to the business rules you create.

SquareSpace is used in major Web sites and organizes vast amounts of information
LongJump creates browser-based Web applications that are database-enabled
LongJump extends Python and uses a Model-View-Controller architecture (MV for its framework
Answer: b
Explanation: LongJump comes with an Object Model Viewer.
13. Which of the following instrumentation tool displays the real-time parameters of your application in a
visual form in AppBase?
Security Roles Management
Dashboard Designer
Report Builder
Answer: b
Explanation: Applications that you create are deployed with the AppBase Application Revision
Management console.
14. Which of the following lets you sort, aggregate, display, and format report information based on the
data in your application?
Presentation Builder
Dashboard Designer
Report Builder
Business Objects Build
Answer: c
Explanation: The applications you create in AppBase may be integrated with Amazon S3 Web Services
(storage).

LongJump comes with a security policy engine that has user and group privileges
Squarespace lets you create beautiful hosted Web sites with a variety of capabilities with visual tools
alone
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LongJump is WYSIWYG editor
Answer: c
Explanation: The applications are built using visual tools and deployed on hosted infrastructure.
16. Which of the following object database has the ability to create rich data objects and create
relationships between them?
Business Process Designer
Answer: b
Explanation: Presentation builder allows you to drag and drop visual controls for creating Web forms and
data entry screens and to include the logic necessary to automate what the user sees.
17. Which of the following technologies are used in LongJump’s PaaS?

REST
SOAP
Java
Answer: d
Explanation: Its development environment is based on Java and uses REST/SOAP APIs.
18. Which of the following is a WYSIWYG web builder?

WaveMaker
Eccentex AppBase
Ez Publish
Answer: a
Explanation: WaveMaker is a visual rapid application development environment for creating Java-based
Web and cloud Ajax applications.
19. ___________ tool is used to create business logic for your application.
Business Process Designer
Answer: c
Explanation: With it, you can manage workflow, integrate modules, create rules, and validate dat
20. Which of the following architecture is shown in the following figure ?
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AppOne
AppBase
AppSquare
Answer: b
Explanation: AppBase includes a set of different tools for building applications
Google Web Services
1. Which of the following algorithm is used by Google to determine the importance of a particular page?
SVD
PageRank
FastMap
Answer: b
Explanation: Content on pages is scanned up to a certain number of words and placed into an index.

With PaaS, the goal is to create hosted scalable applications that are used in a Software as a Service
model
Applications built using PaaS tools need to be standards-based
In Wolf, the data and transaction management conforms to the business rules you create
Answer: d
Explanation: Wolf lets you work with Adobe Flash or Flex or with Microsoft Silverlight.
3. Which of the following figure correctly describe major features provided by Google App Engine?
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Answer: d
Explanation: For an application to run on GAE, it must comply with Google’s platform standards, which
narrows the range of applications that can be run and severely limits those applications’ portability.
4. Based on PageRank algorithm, Google returns __________ for a query that is parsed for its keywords.
SEP
SAP
SERP
Answer: c
Explanation: SERP stands for Search Engine Results Page.

Wolf Frameworks uses a C# engine and supports both Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL database
Applications built in Wolf are 50-percent browser-based and support mashable and multisource overlaid
content
Google applications are cloud-based applications
Answer: b
Explanation: Wolf has architected its platform so applications can be built without the need to write
technical code.
6. Which of the following protocol lets a Web site list in an XML file information?
Sitemaps
Mashups
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Hashups
Answer: a
Explanation: Sitemaps can be useful in allowing content that isn’t browsable to be crawle
7. Which of the following is not provided by “Deep Web”?

Database generated Web pages
Private or limited access Web pages
Pages without links
Answer: d
Explanation: Online content that isn’t indexed by search engines belongs to what has come to be called
the “Deep Web”.
8. Dynamic content presented in Google _______ crawling isn’t normally indexed

AJAX
Java
Javascript
Answer: a
Explanation: Google now has a procedure that helps the Google engine crawl this information.
9. Which of the following google product sends you periodic email alerts based on your search term?
Alerts
Blogger
Calendar
Answer: a
Explanation: By creating a Google Alert, you can get email notifications any time Google finds new
results on a topic that interests you.
10. Which of the following is a payment processing system by Google?

Paytm
Checkout
Code
Answer: b
Explanation: Google Checkout was an online payment processing service provided by Google aimed at
simplifying the process of paying for online purchases.
Google Application Portfolio
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1. Which of the following creates a custom search utility for a particular Web site?
Desktop
Directory
Custom Search
Answer: c
Explanation: Custom Search lets you programmatically build and manage custom search engines for your
site.

Yahoo search is the most popular search engine on the Web
Google Ad Planner is a free media planning tool that can help you identify websites your audience is
likely to visit so you can make better-informed advertising decisions
Google AdSense is a free media planning tool that can help you identify websites your audience is likely
to visit so you can make better-informed advertising decisions
Answer: b
Explanation: Google search is the most popular search engine on the We
3. Which of the following product searches Web by topics?

Desktop
Directory
Custom Search
Answer: b
Explanation: The Google Web Directory integrates Google’s search technology with
OpenDirectoryProject pages to create a tool for finding information on the we
4. Which of the following is an online atlas and mapping service with mashups?
iGoogle
Earth
GOOG-411
Knol
Answer: b
Explanation: Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D
buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean.

Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, et) based on your
choice of query or topic
Google Analytics makes it easy to improve your results online
Google Base is Google search technology focused on blogs
Answer: c
Explanation: Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs.
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6. Which of the following indexes content on your local drive for fast searches?
Desktop
Code
Hash
Answer: a
Explanation: Google Desktop is a computer program with desktop search capabilities, created by Google
for Linux, Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows systems.
7. Google _______ is collection of applications and utilities under development and testing.
Code
Labs
Hash
Answer: b
Explanation: Google Labs was a page created by Google to demonstrate and test new projects.
8. Which of the following is photo-editing and management software?

iGoogle
Earth
GOOG-411
Picasa
Answer: d
Explanation: Organize and edit your photos using Picas
9. Which of the following product allows users to create 3D models and share them with others?
Toolbar
Blogger
SketchUp
Answer: c
Explanation: SketchUp is 3D modeling software that’s easy to learn and incredibly fun to use.
10. Which of the following gives statistical information on different search terms?
Trends
Stats
Tool
Answer: a
Explanation: Google Trends is a public web facility of Google In based on Google Search.
Google Toolkit
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1. Which of the following is a search service for online retailers that markets their products in their site
searches with a number of navigations?
Google Site Search
Google Commerce Search
Google Search Appliance
Google Mini
Answer: b
Explanation: As Google has built out its portfolio, it has released special versions of its products for the
enterprise.

Google Bookmarks is a detailed 3D model of the human body
Google Base is an online service that lets you save your favorite sites and attach labels and comments
The Chromium projects include Chromium and Chromium OS
Answer: c
Explanation: Google Chrome Sync is a Google Tool that Syncs your Google Chrome bookmarks across
multiple computers.
3. Which of the following can be deployed within an organization to speed up both local (Intranet) and
Internet searching?
Google Site Search
Google Commerce Search
Google Mini
Answer: c
Explanation: The three versions of the Google Search Appliance can store an index of up to 300,000 (GB-
1001), 10 million (GB-5005), or 30 million (GB-8008) documents.
4. Which of the following is the smaller version of the GSA that stores 300,000 indexed documents?
Google Site Search
Google Big Search
Google Mini
Answer: d
Explanation: Google sells its search engine customized for enterprises under the Google Site Search
service banner.

With Google Custom Search Engine and Subscribed Links, you can create a search engine tailored to
your needs
Google Currents is a social magazine app by Google
Google Correlate is a social magazine app by Google
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Answer: c
Explanation: Google Correlate find search patterns that correlate with real-world dat
6. Which of the following is a targeted ad service based on matching advertisers and their keywords to
users and their search profiles?
Ads
AdSense
AdWords
Answer: c
Explanation: This service transformed Google from a competent search engine into an industry giant and
is responsible for the majority of Google’s revenue stream.
7. Google __________ is the most widely used Web traffic analysis tool on the Internet.
BigAnalytics
Analytics
Biglytics
Answer: b
Explanation: It is offered as a free service and has been adopted by many Web sites.
8. Which of the following system was replaced with Google Translate?

SYSTRANSMIT
SYSTRAN
SYSTRANFER
Answer: b
Explanation: Translate uses what is referred to as a corpus linguistics approach to translation.
9. Which of the following service that provides offline access to online data?
Gears
Blogger
Offline
Answer: a
Explanation: Google Gears includes a database engine installed on the client that caches data and
synchronizes it.
10. Which of the following is an open-source platform that has been used to create Google Wave and
Google AdWords?
GWT
GET
GTW
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Answer: a
Explanation: GWT allows developers to create AJAX applications using Java or with the GWT compiler
using JavaScript.
Miscellaneous
1.Which of the following dvPort binding types have been removed in vSphere 5?
Dynamic Binding
Ephemeral Binding
Static Binding
Answer: A
2.Your boss has asked you to setup 4 ESXi hosts to evaluate the new vSphere 5 release, which is the
recommended install method to use in this situation?
Interactive Installation
Scripted Installation
vSphere Auto Deploy Installation
Upgrade via VMware Update Manager
Answer: A
3.Your colleague has accidentally allocated more vRAM than your company are licensed for. What will
happen to your virtual machines?
All VM’s will be Powered Off
New VM’s cannot be Powered On
VMware will be notified
Nothing will happen
Answer: B
4.In an HA cluster after an initial election process, host are either:

Primary or Secondary
Master or Slave
King or Queen
Live or Standby
Answer: B
5.To get the maximum performance benefits of vNUMA it is recommended to:

Make sure your clusters are composed entirely of hosts with matching NUMA architecture.
Only use single vCPU virtual machines
Enable EVC on your clusters
Disable Hyper-Threading
Answer: A
6.What is the name of the globally unique identifier assigned to each Fibre Channel Port?
IP Address
MAC Address (Ma
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World Wide Name (WWN)
Port_ID
Answer: C
7.It is possible to Storage vMotion virtual machines that have snapshots?

True
False
Answer: A
8.What are the 4 VM Restart Priority options available on an HA Cluster?

Disabled, Low, Medium, High
Enabled, Small, Medium, Large
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
Priority, 2nd Tier, 3rd Tier, Best Effort
Answer: A
9.A memory reservation defines:

the amount of virtual machine memory that can be paged to the VMkernel swapfile
the amount of physical memory that is guaranteed to the VM
the maximum amount of physical memory that will be used by a VM
the amount of host memory reserved for the VMkernel
Answer: D
10.Which of the following installation methods installs the ESXi image directly into the Host memory?
Interactive ESXi Installation
Scripted ESXi Installation
vSphere Auto Deploy ESXi Installation Option
Answer: D
11.VMFS-5 upgraded from VMFS-3 continues to use the previous file block size which may be larger
than the unified 1MB file block size.
True
False
Answer: A
12.Which of the following formulas defines the amount of virtual machine memory that will always be
composed of disk pages?
Memory allocated -(minus) memory limit
Memory limit -(minus) memory reservation
Memory limit -(minus) memory available
Memory allocated -(minus) memory available
Answer: D
13.The upgrade procedure from VMFS-3 to VMFS-5 will require downtime of that datastore?
False
True
Answer: A
14.Which of the following actions would be LEAST likely to reduce resource contention?
Powering off a VM
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Enabling Swap-To-Cache
Disable transparent memory page sharing
Enabling vNUMA
Answer: C
15.When is vNUMA enable by default on a virtual machines?

When a virtual machine has more than 8 vCPU’s
When the guestOS is configured using an SMP HAL
All the time
vNUMA is never enabled by default
Answer: A
16.Which new feature of vSphere 5 is used to collect host core dumps?

vMA 5.0
ESXi Dump Collector
ESXi Syslog Collector
VMware vDR 2.0
Answer: B
17.After an upgrade from ESX4.X to ESXi5.0 you notice that when you run the following command via
the vMA: “esxcfg-vswif -l” you notice that there are no configured vswif interfaces liste Why would this
be?
The Service Console is no longer available with vSphere 5. All vswif interfaces are removed during the
upgrade.
During the upgrade process all vswif interfaces are migrated to vmk interfaces.
During the upgrade process, vswif interfaces are disable by default, they’ll need to be enable before they
will be liste
The wrong command is being use “vicfg-vswif -l” is the correct command to display all vswif interfaces.
Answer: B
18.How has vMotion been improved in vSphere 5?

Multiple vMotion vmknics, allowing for more and faster vMotion operations
Long distance vMotion, allowing for vMotions over a large geographical area
Multi-platform vMotion, allowing for vMotions between vSphere and Hyper-V platforms
Storage vMotion, allowing for virtual machines storage to be moved between datastores
Answer: D
19.What are the Automation Levels on a DRS Cluster?

Manual, Partially Automatic, Fully Automatic
Manual, Partially Automated, Fully Automated
Manual, Semi Automated, Fully Automatic
Manual, Semi Automatic, Automatic
Answer: D
20.What are the two iSCSI discovery methods that are supported by an ESXi host?
Static Targets, Dynamic Targets
Static Discovery, SendTargets
Static Discovery, FindTargets
Dynamic Discovery, FindTargets
Answer: A
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21.After an upgrade from ESX4.X to ESXi5.0 you notice that your Port Group named “Service Console”
is missing. Where has it gone?
Because ESXi 5.0 has no Service Console, upgrading from ESX 4.x to ESXi 5.0 removes the Service
Console port group.
During the upgrade all Port Groups are remove The Service Console Port Group will need to be recreate
During the upgrade all Port Groups are moved to Distributed Switches.
During the upgrade all Port Groups are moved to Standard Switches.
Answer: A
22.You have been asked to provide high availability for your vCenter server. Which product would you
use to help achieve this?
Fault-Tolerance
vCenter Linked-Mode
vCenter Heartbeat
Microsoft Clustering Services
Answer: C
23.VMware vSphere can be evaluated prior to purchase. What is the maximum number of days the
evaluation can be used before a license must be purchased?
30 Days
60 Days
90 Days
120 Days
Answer: B
24.Which feature of vSphere 5 can be used to increase network throughput to virtual machines?
SplitRX
NPIV
VMDirectpath I/O
RDM
Answer: A
25.Which feature of vSphere 5 can be used to reduce virtual machine memory overhead?
VMX Swap
SplitRX
Swap to Host
Memory Reservations
Answer: A
26.By default, where do hosts deployed with VMware Auto Deploy store logs?
In Memory
First mounted LUN
Local disk
vMA
Answer: A
27.Which new feature of vSphere 5 is used to create ESXi installation images with a customized set of
updates, patches, and drivers?
Image Builder
Host Profiles
Auto Deploy
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Esxcli
Answer: D
28.Which of the following is not a new feature made available with vSphere 5?
sDRS
vDR
VSA
vSphere Web Client
Answer: B
29.What protocol is used by an ESXi host to communicate with NAS devices?

NFS
iSCSI
CIFS
SMB
Answer: B
30.After an upgrade from ESX/ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.0, your monitoring department are reporting that they
have stopped receiving Syslog data from all of the ESXi hosts. What could be the problem?
Custom ports that were opened by using the ESX/ESXi 4.1 esxcfg-firewall command do not remain open
after the upgrade to ESXi 5.0.
Custom ports that were opened by using the ESX/ESXi 4.1 esxcfg-firewall command do not do not get
copied during the upgrade to ESXi 5.0.
Tech Support Mode is disable by default after an upgrade to ESXi 5.0 stopping all traffic on all ports
ESXi 5.0 cannot send logs to Syslog servers.
Answer: D
31.The default security policy on a Port Group is:

Reject, Accept, Accept
Reject, Reject, Reject
Accept, Accept, Accept
Reject, Reject, Accept
Answer: A
32.When deploying hosts with VMware Auto Deploy, which is the recommended method to configure
ESXi once it has been installed?
Host Profiles
PowerCLI
Manually
via Direct Console
Answer: A
33.What is an HA Slot?
A slot is a logical representation of the memory and CPU resources that satisfy the requirements for any
powered-on virtual machine in the cluster.
A slot is a given to each Host in an HA Cluster, there is a maximum of 32 in an HA Cluster
A slot is given to each Virtual Machine, this determines the restart priority.
A slot has nothing to do with HA, it’s how DRS calculates which Virtual Machine should be placed
where.
Answer: A
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34.Which new version of VMFS is introduced by vSphere 5?
VMFS-2
VMFS-3
VMFS-5
VMFS-4
Answer: C
35.ESXi 5.0 supports only LAHF and SAHF CPU instructions?

True
False
Answer: A
36.Which of the following is no longer available with vSphere 5?

ESX
vCenter
vSphere Client
PowerCLI
Answer: D
37.Which if the following is not a supported location for a host diagnostic partition?
Shared local storage
Private local storage
Private SAN storage
Shared SAN storage
Answer: A
38.Which of the following actions is not available via the Direct Console?
Shutdown host
Enter host into Maintenance Mode
View host logs
Configure host DNS
Answer: B
39.Which vSphere feature provides dynamic allocation of storage capacity?

vStorage APIs / VCB
Thinapp
sDRS
vStorage Thin Provisioning
Answer: C
40.To improve security which new feature has been added to ESXi?
Firewall
Local Mode
Anti-Virus
vShield
Answer: A
41.What the packaging format used by the VMware ESXi Image Builder?
.rar
.zip
.iso
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VIB
Answer: C
42.What are the three default roles provided on an ESXi host?

No Access, Read Only and Administrator
Read only, Operator Access and Administrator
Virtual Machine User, Virtual Machine Power User and Administrator
Network Consumer, Datastore Consumer and Resource Pool Administrator
Answer: A
43.Which of the following is a requirement for vCenter?

A Static IP address
A DHCP IP address
A valid (internal) domain name system (DNS) registration.
Answer: C
44.Which two users are assigned the Administrator role at the ESX Server level by default?
root, administrator
root, vpxuser
root, vpxa
root, hostd
Answer: B
45.After an upgrade from ESXi4.0 to ESXi5.0 you are unable to putty to your hosts. What could have
caused this?
SSH configuration is not migrated for ESX 4.x hosts or ESXi 4.0 hosts. For these hosts, SSH access is
disabled during the upgrade or migration process
SSH is not available with ESXi 5.0, it is only available with ESX 5.0.
SSH is always disabled after an upgrade or clean installation.
The SSH port in ESXi 5.0 has changed to 443 for added security.
Answer: A
46.What are the three Host Isolation Response options available on an HA Cluster?
Shut down, Power off, Leave powered on
Shut down, Power off, Leave powered off
Shut down, Restart, Leave powered on
Shut down, Restart, power on
Answer: B
47.Your boss has asked you deploy 40 ESXi hosts as quickly as possible, which is the recommended
install method to use in this situation?
Interactive Installation
Scripted Installation
VMware Auto Deploy Installation
Answer: D
48.Distributed Power Management (DPM) requires which technology to be available on the NIC?
Wake On LAN (WOL)
DNS
BMC
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NetBIOS
Answer: A
49.The organisation you work for is currently running vSphere 4.1 U1. Your team have just created a new
Test/Dev environment based on vSphere 5. The VM management team have asked if you could combine
the current 4.1 U1 environment and 5.0 vCenters with Linked-Mode. What is the correct response to the
VM management team?
vCenter 4.1 and vCenter cannot be joined with Linked-Mode
Additional licensing is required to use Linked-Mode
Only vCenter Administrators can use Linked-Mode
No problem
Answer: D
50.Which of the following is not a benefit of VMware Auto Deploy?

Decouples the VMware ESXi host from the physical server and eliminates the boot disk
Eliminates configuration drift
Simplifies patching and updating
Accelerates deployment of virtual machine
Answer: D
51. ________ describes a cloud service that can only be accessed by a limited amount of people.
Data center
Private cloud
Virtualization
Public cloud
Answer: B

52. ________ describes a distribution model in which applications are hosted by a service provider and
made available to users.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Cloud service
Answer: C

53. True or False: Access to a Cloud environment always costs more money compared to a traditional
desktop environment.
Answer: False

54. _________ is the feature of cloud computing that allows the service to change in size or volume in
order to meet a user’s needs.
Scalability
Virtualization
Security
Cost-savings
Answer: A

55. True or False: A Cloud environment can be accessed from anywhere in the world as long as the user
has access to the Internet.
Answer: True
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MCQs on Principles of Virtualization

Prepared by - Nirmalya Mukhopadhyay

1. Which of the following correctly represents different types of mobile patterns ?

All of the mentioned

2. Point out the wrong statement :

3. Which of the following type of virtualization is also characteristic of cloud computing?

4. The technology used to distribute service requests to resources is referred to as:

5. Point out the correct statement :

6. Which of the following software can be used to implement load balancing?

7. Which of the following network resources can be load balanced?

1. Which type of Hypervisor is shown in the following figure ?

2. Point out the wrong statement:

3. Which of the following is another name for system virtual machine?

4. Which of the following provide system resource access to virtual machines?

5. Point out the correct statement :

6. An operating system running on a Type __ VM is a full virtualization.

7. Which of the following is Type 1 Hypervisor?

8. Which of the following is Type 2 VM?

Host Operating System

11. What does the following figure represent ?

vSquare cloud infrastructure

12. Point out the wrong statement :

15. Point out the wrong statement :

2. Point out the wrong statement :

5. Point out the wrong statement :

7. Which of the following is open standard for storing a system image?

8. _________ is used by Amazon Web Services to store copies of a virtual machine.

9. AMI imaging service is provided by Amazon for:

10. Which of the following runs on Xen Hypervisor?

2. Point out the correct statement:

3. Simple Cloud API is useful for applications written in :

9. Which of the following is most widely used technique for abstraction?

10. Which of the following is a potent cloud-building technology?

1. Which of the following correctly describes the following figure?

2. Point out the correct statement :

3. What is the relation of capacity attribute to performance?

4. What does L in LAMP stands for?

5. Point out the wrong statement :

8. Which of the following RDBMS is used by LAMP?

9. Which of the following is critical step in capacity planning?

10. Which of the following is hardest factor to determine?

2. Point out the correct statement :

5. Point out the wrong statement :

7. Which of the following is used as Open source distributed monitoring system?

2. Point out the wrong statement:

3. Which of the following application can replay requests to Web servers?

4. Which of the following is often a bottleneck in Web servers?

5. Point out the correct statement :

Server and Instance types

1. Which of the following type is missing in the following figure ?

4. Which of the following instance is used by default in AMI?

5. Point out the wrong statement:

7. Which of the following instance has API name: m2.4xlarge?

9. Which of the following instance has lowest performance in AMI?

1. How many aspects needs to be considered while assessing network capacity?

2. Point out the correct statement :

4. Which of the following utility is used to monitor traffic in Windows?

5. Point out the wrong statement:

6. Which of the following packet sniffer was formerly called Ethereal?