1) What type of computing technology refers to services and applications

that typically run on a distributed network through virtualized resources?

a. Distributed Computing

b. Cloud Computing

c. Soft Computing

d. Parallel Computing

Answer: B

Explanation: Cloud computing is a computing technique in which applications

are accessed by common internet protocols and networking standards.

2) Which one of the following options can be considered as the Cloud?

a. Hadoop

b. Intranet

c. Web Applications

d. All of the mentioned

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Answer: A

Explanation: Whenever any intranet becomes large enough in size that a

diagram is not able to differentiate the individual physical system, so at that
stage intranet also becomes known as a cloud. Hadoop can be considered as a
cloud.

3) Cloud computing is a kind of abstraction which is based on the notion

of combining physical resources and represents them as
_______resources to users.

a. Real

b. Cloud

c. Virtual

d. none of the mentioned

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Answer: C
Explanation: Cloud Computing is a kind of new model for providing resources
for applications such as staging applications, platform-independent user access
to services.

4) Which of the following has many features of that is now known as cloud
computing?

a. Web Service

b. Softwares

c. All of the mentioned

d. Internet

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Answer: D

Explanation: Internet provides the abstraction, runs through the same set of

protocols and standards, and uses the same operating system and applications.

5) Which one of the following cloud concepts is related to sharing and

pooling the resources?

a. Polymorphism

b. Virtualization

c. Abstraction

d. None of the mentioned

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Answer: B

Explanation: The application runs on physical systems that are not specified in

real. The information stored in the locations that are also not specified or
unknown, administration of the systems are outsourced to others and can be
accessed by the user.

6) Which one of the following statements is not true?

a. The popularization of the Internet actually enabled most cloud computing

systems.
 b. Cloud computing makes the long-held dream of utility as a payment
possible for you, with an infinitely scalable, universally available system,
pay what you use.

c. Soft computing addresses a real paradigm in the way in which the system
is deployed.

d. All of the mentioned

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Answer: C

Explanation: Cloud computing is distinguished by the notion that resources are

virtual and infinite and describe the physical systems on which software runs in
the abstracted manner from the user.

7) Which one of the following can be considered as a utility is a dream

that dates from the beginning of the computing industry itself?

a. Computing

b. Model

c. Software

d. All of the mentioned

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Answer: A

Explanation: Cloud computing takes the technology, services, and applications

that are similar to those on the Internet and turns them into a self-service utility.

8) Which of the following is an essential concept related to Cloud?

a. Reliability

b. Abstraction

c. Productivity

d. All of the mentioned

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Answer: B

Explanation: Cloud computing hides all the detail of system implementation

from users and developers.
9) Which one of the following is Cloud Platform by Amazon?

a. Azure

b. AWS

c. Cloudera

d. All of the mentioned

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Answer: B

Explanation: Amazon web service is one of the most successful cloud-based

businesses, which offers infrastructure as a service and lets you rent virtual
computers on its own infrastructure.

10) Which of the following statement is not true?

a. Through cloud computing, one can begin with very small and become big
in a rapid manner.

b. All applications benefit from deployment in the Cloud.

c. Cloud computing is revolutionary, even though the technology it is built on

is evolutionary.

d. None of the mentioned

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Answer: B

Explanation: A variety of issues, such as issues with latency, security, and

regulatory compliance, all are subject to concern. AWS is one of the most
successful cloud-based businesses, which is a type of infrastructure as a service
and lets you rent virtual computers on its own infrastructure.
1) In the Planning Phase, Which of the following is the correct step for
performing the analysis?

a. Cloud Computing Value Proposition

b. Cloud Computing Strategy Planning

c. Both A and B

d. Business Architecture Development

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Answer: C

Explanation: In the planning phase, we actually analyze the strategy related

problems which customers might face. There are usually two steps to perform
the analysis: Cloud Computing Planning and Cloud Computing Value Proposition.

12) In which one of the following, a strategy record or Document is

created respectively to the events, conditions a user may face while
applying cloud computing mode.

a. Cloud Computing Value Proposition

b. Cloud Computing Strategy Planning

c. Planning Phase

d. Business Architecture Development

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Answer: B

Explanation: Cloud Computing Strategy Planning: The establishment of the

strategy is based on the above step's analysis result. In this phase, a strategy
document is prepared according to the conditions faced by the customer while
implementing the cloud computing mode

3) What is Business Architecture Development?

a. We recognize the risks that might be caused by cloud computing

application from a business perspective.

b. We identify the applications that support the business processes and the
technologies required to support enterprise applications and data systems.

c. We formulate all kinds of plans that are required to transform the current
business to cloud computing modes.

d. None of the above

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Answer: A

Explanation: Business Architecture Development: In this phase, we identify the

risks that can be caused by a cloud computing application from a business point
of view.

4) Which one of the following refers to the non-functional requirements

like disaster recovery, security, reliability, etc.

a. Service Development

b. Quality of service

c. Plan Development

d. Technical Service

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Answer: B

Explanation: Quality of service refers to the non-functional requirements such

as reliability, security, disaster recovery, etc.

5) Which one of the following is a phase of the Deployment process?

a. Selecting Cloud Computing Provider

b. IT Architecture Development

c. Business Architecture Development

d. Transformation Plan Development

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Answer: D

Explanation: Deployment phase: This phase focuses on both steps. It consists

of the following two steps: Selecting a cloud computing provider, maintenance
and technical service.

6) This phase involves selecting a cloud provider based on the Service

Level Agreement (SLA), which defines the level of service the provider
receives.

a. Maintenance and Technical Service

b. Selecting Cloud Computing Provider

c. Both A and B
 d. None of the above

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Answer: B

Explanation: This phase involves selecting a cloud provider based on the

Service Level Agreement (SLA), that defines the level of service the provider
receives.

7) In which one of the following phases, IT Architecture Development

came?

a. Strategy Phase

b. Planning Phase

c. Deployment Phase

d. Development Phase

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Answer: B

Explanation: IT Architecture Development steps in Planning Phase

8) Which of the model involves the special types of services that users
can access on a Cloud Computing platform?

a. Service

b. Planning

c. Deployment

d. Application

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Answer: A

Explanation: The service model contains the specials types of services that

users can access on a cloud computing platform.

9) Which one of the following is related to the services provided by Cloud?

a. Sourcing

b. Ownership

c. Reliability
 d. PaaS

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Answer: A

Explanation: Insourced or Outsourced means whether the service is provided by

the customer or the service provider.

10) How many phases are present in Cloud Computing Planning?

a. 2

b. 3

c. 4

d. 5

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Answer: B

Explanation: In Cloud Computing Planning, there are usually three phases that
are Strategy Phase, Planning Phase, and Deployment Phase.
1) Cloud computing architecture is a combination of?

a. service-oriented architecture and grid computing

b. Utility computing and event-driven architecture.

c. Service-oriented architecture and event-driven architecture.

d. Virtualization and event-driven architecture.

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Answer: C

Explanation: Cloud computing architecture is a combination of service-oriented

architecture and event-driven architecture.

2) In how many parts we can broadly divide the architecture of the Cloud?

a. 4

b. 3

c. 2

d. 5

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Answer: C

Explanation: The architecture of the Cloud can broadly be divided into two main
parts that are Back-end and Front-end.

3) Which one of the following refers to the user's part of the Cloud
Computing system?

a. back End

b. Management

c. Infrastructure

d. Front End

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Answer: D
Explanation: It is the front-end that refers to the user's part of the cloud
computing system. It includes many applications and interfaces that are required
to access or use the cloud computing platform.

4) Which one of the following can be considered as the example of the

Front-end?

a. Web Browser

b. Google Compute Engine

c. Cisco Metapod

d. Amazon Web Services

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Answer: A

Explanation: From the following given options, we can consider the Web-

browser as the perfect example of the Front-end.

25) By whom is the backend commonly used?

a. Client

b. User

c. Stockholders

d. service provider

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Answer: D

Explanation: It is commonly used by the service provider in order to manage all

resources required to provide the Cloud Computing Services.

6) Through which, the backend and front-end are connected with each
other?

a. Browser

b. Database

c. Network
 d. Both A and B

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Answer: C

Explanation: Typically using an internet connection, both the front and back end
are connected to the others through a network.

7) How many types of services are there those are offered by the Cloud
Computing to the users?

a. 2

b. 4

c. 3

d. 5

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Answer: C

Explanation: Usually, Cloud Computing offers three types of services to the

users that are Platform as a service (or PaaS), Application as a service (or AssS),
and Software as a service (or SaaS).

8) The Foce.com and windows Azure are examples of which of the

following?

a. IaaS

b. PaaS

c. SaaS

d. Both A and B

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Answer: B

Explanation: Both Force.com and Windows Azure are examples of the Platform

as a service
9) Which of the following is one of the backend's built-in components of
cloud computing?

a. Security

b. Application

c. Storage

d. Service

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Answer: A

Explanation: Security is one of the back-end's built-in components of cloud

computing.

10) Which of the following provides the Graphic User Interface (GUI) for
interaction with the cloud?

a. Client

b. Client Infrastructure

c. Application

d. Server

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Answer: B

Explanation: The Client Infrastructure is one of the front-end components that

provide the way of communication in the form of a Graphic User Interface to
communicate with the Cloud.
1) Which one of the following a technology works behind the cloud
computing platform?

a. Virtualization

b. SOA

c. Grid Computing

d. All of the above

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Answer: D

Explanation: Several technologies work behind the Cloud Computing platforms,

which provide features like Flexibility, reliability, and usability to cloud
computing.

2) Which one of the following is a kind of technique that allows sharing

the single physical instance of an application or the resources among
multiple organizations/customers?

a. Virtualization

b. Service-Oriented Architecture

c. Grid Computing

d. Utility Computing

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Answer: A

Explanation: Virtualization is a kind of technique that allows us to share the

single physical instance of a resource or application between several
organizations/users.

3) Which one of the following statement is true about the Virtualization?

a. It provides a logical name for a physical resource, and on-demand

provides an indicator of that physical resource.

b. In Virtualization, we analyze the strategy related problems that customers

may face.

c. In Virtualization, it is necessary to compile the Multitenant properly.

 d. All of the above

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Answer: A

Explanation: It provides a logical name to the physical resource when the

demand is correct regarding virtualization and provides an indicator of that
physical resource.

4) In Virtualization, which architecture provides the virtual isolation

between the several tenants?

a. IT Architecture

b. Multitenant

c. Deployment

d. Business Architecture

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Answer: B

Explanation: The Multitenant architecture provides us the virtual isolation in

between several tenants. Hence the organization can easily use and also modify
their application as they each have their instances running.

5) On which one of the following utility computing is based?

a. Grid Computing Model

b. SOA Model

c. virtual isolation Model

d. Pay-per-Use model

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Answer: D

Explanation: Utility computing is based on the pay-what-you use model.

6) Which one of the following statement is true about the Service-
Oriented Architecture?

a. It is possible to exchange data between applications from different

vendors without using additional programming.

b. It provides computational resources on-demand as a metered service.

c. Service-Oriented Architecture allows using the application as a service for

other applications.

d. Both A and C

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7) In Grid Computing, which types of computer resources are there?

a. heterogeneous dispersed.

b. geographically dispersed.

c. Both A and B

d. None of the above

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Answer: C

Explanation: In grid computing, heterogeneous types of resources are used that

are geographically dispersed.

8) Managed IT services are based on the concept of which one of the

following?

a. Virtualization

b. Utility Computing

c. Grid Computing

d. SOA

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Answer: B

Explanation: In Cloud Computing, managed IT services and grid computing are

based on the concept of Utility Computing.
9) Which one of the following refers to the Distributed Computing, in
which several sets of computers distributed on multiple geographical
locations and are connected with each other to achieve a common goal?

a. Virtualization

b. SOA

c. Grid Computing

d. Utility Computing

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Answer: C

Explanation: Grid Computing refers to the Distributed Computing, in which

several sets of computers distributed on multiple geographically dispersed, and
are connected with each other to achieve a common goal.

10) Which one of the following statement is true about Grid Computing?

a. Pieces combine small tasks into complex tasks

b. The subscription tier plays an important role in grid computing.

c. Breaks complex tasks into small operations

d. Both A and C

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Answer: C

Explanation: Grid computing breaks down complex tasks into smaller pieces,

which are distributed to the CPU residing within the grid.
1) Which one of the following a technology works behind the cloud
computing platform?

a. Virtualization

b. SOA

c. Grid Computing

d. All of the above

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Answer: D

Explanation: Several technologies work behind the Cloud Computing platforms,

which provide features like Flexibility, reliability, and usability to cloud
computing.

2) Which one of the following is a kind of technique that allows sharing

the single physical instance of an application or the resources among
multiple organizations/customers?

a. Virtualization

b. Service-Oriented Architecture

c. Grid Computing

d. Utility Computing

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Answer: A

Explanation: Virtualization is a kind of technique that allows us to share the

single physical instance of a resource or application between several
organizations/users.

3) Which one of the following statement is true about the Virtualization?

a. It provides a logical name for a physical resource, and on-demand

provides an indicator of that physical resource.
 b. In Virtualization, we analyze the strategy related problems that customers
may face.

c. In Virtualization, it is necessary to compile the Multitenant properly.

d. All of the above

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Answer: A

Explanation: It provides a logical name to the physical resource when the

demand is correct regarding virtualization and provides an indicator of that
physical resource.

4) In Virtualization, which architecture provides the virtual isolation

between the several tenants?

a. IT Architecture

b. Multitenant

c. Deployment

d. Business Architecture

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Answer: B

Explanation: The Multitenant architecture provides us the virtual isolation in

between several tenants. Hence the organization can easily use and also modify
their application as they each have their instances running.

5) On which one of the following utility computing is based?

a. Grid Computing Model

b. SOA Model

c. virtual isolation Model

d. Pay-per-Use model

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Answer: D

Explanation: Utility computing is based on the pay-what-you use model.

6) Which one of the following statement is true about the Service-
Oriented Architecture?

a. It is possible to exchange data between applications from different

vendors without using additional programming.

b. It provides computational resources on-demand as a metered service.

c. Service-Oriented Architecture allows using the application as a service for

other applications.

d. Both A and C

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7) In Grid Computing, which types of computer resources are there?

a. heterogeneous dispersed.

b. geographically dispersed.

c. Both A and B

d. None of the above

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Answer: C

Explanation: In grid computing, heterogeneous types of resources are used that

are geographically dispersed.

8) Managed IT services are based on the concept of which one of the

following?

a. Virtualization

b. Utility Computing

c. Grid Computing

d. SOA

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Answer: B
Explanation: In Cloud Computing, managed IT services and grid computing are
based on the concept of Utility Computing.

9) Which one of the following refers to the Distributed Computing, in

which several sets of computers distributed on multiple geographical
locations and are connected with each other to achieve a common goal?

a. Virtualization

b. SOA

c. Grid Computing

d. Utility Computing

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Answer: C

Explanation: Grid Computing refers to the Distributed Computing, in which

several sets of computers distributed on multiple geographically dispersed, and
are connected with each other to achieve a common goal.

10) Which one of the following statement is true about Grid Computing?

a. Pieces combine small tasks into complex tasks

b. The subscription tier plays an important role in grid computing.

c. Breaks complex tasks into small operations

d. Both A and C

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Answer: C

Explanation: Grid computing breaks down complex tasks into smaller pieces,

which are distributed to the CPU residing within the grid.

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ's) based on the

"Hypervisors" used in the Cloud Computing.
1) Which one of the following given programs provides the isolation
(abstraction) and partitioning?
 a. System hypervisor

b. Software hypervisor

c. Hardware hypervisor

d. Virtualization hypervisor

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Answer: D

Explanation: The virtualization hypervisor program provides the isolation

(abstraction) and partitioning

2) On which one of the following hypervisor runs directly on the

underlying host system, it is also known as________?

a. Bare metal hypervisor

b. Hosted Hypervisor

c. Native Hypervisor

d. Both A and C

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Answer: D

Explanation: The Hypervisor runs directly on the underlying host system, and

sometimes it is also known as "Native Hypervisor" or "Bare metal hypervisor."

3) Which of the following behaves like the monitor's entry point and
reroutes the instructions of the virtual machine?

a. Dispatcher

b. Allocator

c. Interpreter

d. Both A and B

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Answer: A
Explanation: The Dispatcher acts as the monitor's entry point and reruns the
instructions (statements) of the virtual machine instance to one of the other two
modules.

4) Which one of the following is also known as a Hypervisor?

a. VMA

b. VMM

c. VMS

d. VMR

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Answer: B

Explanation: A Virtual Machine Monitor (or VMM) is sometimes also known as

the Hypervisor.

5) How many kinds of Hypervisor are there?

a. 4

b. 3

c. 2

d. 5

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Answer: C

Explanation: There are only two kinds of Hypervisors that are Type1-Hypervisor

and Type2-Hypervisor.

6) Which one of the following is not an example of the Type1-Hypervisor?

a. VMware ESXi

b. Citrix XenServer

c. Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor

d. VMware Player
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Answer: D

Explanation: VMware Player is one of the examples of Typ2-Hypervisor not of

the Type1-Hypervisor

7) How many main modules are needed to coordinate in order to emulate

the underlying hardware?

a. 3

b. 2

c. 4

d. 5

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Answer: A

Explanation: In order to emulate the underlying hardware, there are three main
modules needed to coordinate, which are as follows:

o Interpreter

o Allocator

o Dispatcher

8) Which one of the following is used to call the allocator?

a. INTERPRETER

b. TYPE-2 Hypervisor

c. Both A and B

d. DISPATCHER

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Answer: D

Explanation: Each time when the virtual machine wants to execute an operation

or instruction, it will result in allowing in changing the machine's resources
associated with the virtual machine. Hence the allocator is called by the
Dispatcher.
9) The Parallels Desktop can be considered as the example of which of the
following?

a. TYPE-2 Hypervisor

b. DISPATCHER

c. TYPE-1 Hypervisor

d. INTERPRETER

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Answer: A

Explanation: Parallels Desktop or VMware Player is one of the examples of the

Type2-Hypervisor. Almost all the hosted hypervisors are usually found on
endpoints such as PCs.

10) Which one of the following statements is not true?

a. Whenever a command begins a process, immediately the process virtual

machine gets instantiated.

b. Usually, the guest operating systems are mores faster in full virtualization
as compared to other virtualization schemes.

c. It is necessary for the full virtualization that the host OS (Operating

System ) offers a Virtual Machine Interface for the guest operating system
by which the guest operating system can access the hardware through the
host VM.

d. All of the above

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Answer: C

Explanation: The statement give in the option c is not true at all.

11) Which of the following statements is not true?

a. Load balancing virtualizes systems and resources by mapping a logical

address to a physical address
 b. Multiple instances of various Google applications are running on different
hosts

c. Google uses hardware virtualization

d. All of the above

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Answer: A

Explanation: Google performs the load balancing for distributing the processing

load in order to achieve high utilization rates.

12) Which one of the following can be considered as the example of the
Type2 Virtual Machine monitors?

a. KVM

b. Microsoft Hyper V

c. Parallels Desktop

d. All of the above

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Answer: D

Explanation: KVM, Microsoft Hyper V, and Parallels Desktop for Mac are

examples of the Type2 Virtual Machine Monitors.

13) Which one of the following is a type of software that supports the
virtual machine?

a. Kernel

b. Hypervisor

c. VMM

d. Both B and C

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Answer: D
Explanation: The VMM and kernel both are a kind of software that supports the
Virtual Machine.

14) Which one of the following runs on Xen Hypervisor?

a. Azure

b. AWS EC2

c. C AWS EC3

d. All of the above

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Answer: B

Explanation: AWS EC2 runs on Xen Hypervisor

15) Which one of the following is the type of a service that manages and
creates virtual network interfaces?

a. VMware vStorage

b. Application services

c. VMware vCompute

d. VMware vNetwork

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Answer: D

Explanation: VMware vNetwork is a kind of service that manages and creates

virtual network interfaces.

16) In which one of the following, the virtual machine simulates

hardware, through which it can be independent of the underlying system
hardware?

a. Para-virtualization

b. Full virtualization

c. Emulation
 d. None of the above

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Answer: C

Explanation: In emulation, the virtual machine simulates hardware, through

that it can be independent of the underlying system hardware

17) Which one of the following will be the host operating system for
Windows Server?

a. VirtualLogix VLX

b. Microsoft Hyper-V

c. Xen

d. All of the above

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Answer: B

Explanation: Type 2 virtual machines are installed over a host operating

system.

18) In Which Type of VM, full virtualization can be possible?

a. Type4

b. Type2

c. Type3

d. Type1

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Answer: D

Explanation: In Type1, the full virtualization can be possible because it provides

a complete simulation of the hardware on which it is currently running.

19) Which one of the following can be considered as another name of

Virtual Machine?
 a. Software virtual machine

b. Real machine

c. process virtual machine

d. Virtualization hypervisor

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Answer: C

Explanation: Some kinds of Virtual Machines are specially designed so that they

can able to run only a single process or application. Hence, these kinds of virtual
machines are referred as the process Virtual Machines.