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Virtualization Mastery Quiz

Welcome to the Virtualization Mastery Quiz! Test your knowledge of Hyper-V, VHDs, virtual networking, and storage management. This quiz is designed for IT professionals and enthusiasts who want to enhance their understanding of virtualization technologies.

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You are using differencing disks for multiple virtual machines (VMs) to preserve the parent image from changes. Now you want to combine the two images together. What PowerShell cmdlet allows you to do this?

Optimize-VHD

Merge-VHD

Mount-VHD

Convert-VHD

When creating a checkpoint file using Hyper-V Manager, what is the file format and where is it stored?

The file has an AVHD extension, stored in the same folder as the virtual hard disk file.

The file has an AVHDX extension, stored in the same folder as the virtual hard disk file.

The file has an AVHD or AVHDX extension, stored in the same folder as the virtual hard disk file.

The file has an AVHD or AVHDX extension, stored at the root of the local drive.

What tool can you use to modify a virtual hard disk?

Use Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard in Hyper-V Manager in Server Manager.

Select the Edit VHD dialog box in Hyper-V File Server.

Use Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard in Add Users and Computers.

Select Checkpoint from the Actions pane in Hyper-V Manager

Regarding the benefits of a SAN, what happens during a serverless backup?

The server schedules the backup, but has no involvement at the beginning, during, or end.

The server initiates the backup, but the server is not involved during the backup.

The server acts as a slave to the backup device.

Without a server, there is no backup.

In Windows Server 2012 R2, what virtual image file provides for the largest size?

VHD files, up to 2 TB

VHD files, up to 64 TB

VHDX files, up to 2 TB

VHDX files, up to 64 TB

If your company uses Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2 and the older Virtual Server, what virtual image file format can you use on both hypervisor products? Question options:

VHDX

VHS

VHD

DIVX

When choosing between disk types in the New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard, what type permits an image size up to 2 TB?

VHDX

VHS

VHD

DIVX

What does a differencing disk offer administrators?

An opportunity to experiment with no changes committed to the differencing disk

A better security for the data on the differencing disk

A faster load time than a full VM

An opportunity to experiment with no changes committed to the parent image

Do VMs ever directly access a physical hard disk?

No, VMs access only virtual hard disks, areas of space on the physical hard disk.

Yes, VMs access a physical hard disk by way of a “pass-through disk,” a special virtual disk that directly accesses the physical disk if it is made exclusively available to the VM.

No, VMs access physical hardware only through the hypervisor.

Yes, virtual hard disks associate directly to the physical hard disks.

Virtual SANs allow you to _______.

Eliminate the physical disks

Have virtual hard disks communicate with physical hard disks

Make distant storage accessible to VMs

Utilize the Fibre Channel adapters

What Server Manager tool allows you to create a new virtual hard disk?

Hyper-V Server

Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), and then Manageability

Hyper-V Manager

File and Storage Services

When creating a new virtual hard disk, what feature does Windows PowerShell offer that the graphical interface does not

You can specify the block size and the logical sector size.

You can decide between VHD and VHDX disk types.

You can choose among Fixed, Dynamic, or Differencing.

You can specify the path.

Can you modify an existing virtual hard disk (VHD) file?

No, once created, a VHD file is fixed.

Yes, but you can modify it only through Windows PowerShell

No, but you change it into a VHDX file.

Yes, you can even modify it without mounting it to a VM.

How do you give a VM exclusive access to a physical hard disk?

By creating a pass-through disk for the VM.

Taking the disk offline in the parent OS, and then selecting the physical disk in the VM.

By granting the physical disk to the VM through the parent OS.

A VM cannot have exclusive access to physical disks, only virtual disks.

The following PowerShell cmdlets are all valid for executing functions related to VHDs. Which cmdlet is used for compacting dynamic or differencing disks?

Optimize-VHD

Resize-VHD

Dismount-VHD

Convert-VHD

When configuring Storage Quality of Service in Windows Server 2012 R2, which of the following options ensures that one system does not consume input/output capacity of a physical disk?

Processor utilization

IOPS

Bps

Ping time

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