CompTIA A+ Core 1 220-1201 - Domain 4 Virtualization and Cloud Computing

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Question 1

An enterprise is running a VMware vSphere environment. Multiple VMs share the same physical server. One VM begins consuming 95% of the physical CPU resources, causing other VMs to slow significantly. Which VMware feature limits CPU consumption per VM?

Answer choices

  • A. vSphere HA (High Availability)

  • B. CPU resource reservations and limits (vCPU scheduling)

  • C. vMotion

  • D. vSAN

Question 2

A company uses containers to deploy its microservices application. How do containers differ from traditional virtual machines?

Answer choices

  • A. Containers include a full OS kernel; VMs do not

  • B. Containers share the host OS kernel and are more lightweight; VMs include full OS instances

  • C. Containers require a Type 1 hypervisor; VMs require Type 2

  • D. Containers are more secure than VMs due to complete isolation

Question 3

A technician needs to provide network connectivity to virtual machines running on a Type 1 hypervisor. Which component provides network switching capabilities within the virtualization platform?

Answer choices

  • A. Physical switch in the datacenter rack

  • B. Virtual switch (vSwitch)

  • C. VLAN trunk port

  • D. Software-defined WAN

Question 4

A hospital wants to keep patient data on-premises for compliance while using public cloud resources for non-sensitive workloads like scheduling and HR. What deployment model does this describe?

Answer choices

  • A. Public cloud

  • B. Private cloud

  • C. Community cloud

  • D. Hybrid cloud

Question 5

A technician is setting up a VM and needs to allocate storage. They configure a 100GB virtual disk but want it to only use actual space as data is written (not pre-allocate the full 100GB immediately). Which disk provisioning type should they choose?

Answer choices

  • A. Thick provisioning

  • B. Thin provisioning

  • C. Raw Device Mapping

  • D. VMDK flat file