Data Center UK 13

Which of the following is NOT a primary advantage of virtualization in IT environments?

• a) Enhanced hardware utilization

• b) Simplified disaster recovery

• c) Decreased power consumption

• d) Elimination of software licensing costs

What is the role of a hypervisor in virtualization?

• a) It facilitates network traffic between virtual machines.

• b) It provides direct hardware access to physical machines.

• c) It creates and manages virtual machines on a host system.

• d) It replaces the operating system of the host machine.

Which of the following is a major challenge in managing data growth effectively?

• a) Increasing availability of inexpensive storage devices

• b) Scalability of storage systems

• c) Reduction in unstructured data

• d) Decrease in user-generated content

What is the primary metric for measuring storage system performance?

• b) Storage form factor

• c) Virtual machine density

• d) Data redundancy ratio

• a) Latency

Which factor should be considered when debating storage form factors?

• a) System architecture compatibility

• b) Color coding of storage devices

• c) Maximum number of supported virtual machines

• d) Network switch compatibility

Which workload is least likely to benefit from flash storage deployment?

• a) Real-time analytics

• b) High-performance transactional databases

• c) Archival storage for cold data

• d) Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)

What is a key benefit of software-defined storage (SDS)?

• a) Hardware-specific management tools

• b) Centralized control and abstraction from hardware

• c) Increased dependence on vendor-specific solutions

• d) Elimination of storage hardware requirements

Which of the following hypervisor types provides the highest level of performance and isolation?

• a) Type 1 hypervisor (bare-metal)

• b) Type 2 hypervisor (hosted)

• c) Container-based virtualization

• d) Hybrid hypervisor

What is a common advantage of hyper-converged infrastructure over traditional infrastructure?

• a) Dedicated hardware components

• b) Simplified management and scalability

• c) Separation of compute and storage resources

• d) Dependency on external storage networks

Which of the following is true about flash storage deployment in enterprise environments?

• a) Flash storage cannot be used for high-transaction workloads.

• b) Flash storage increases latency compared to HDDs.

• c) Flash storage reduces power consumption and improves IOPS.

• d) Flash storage requires specialized physical storage enclosures.