10.1.10 Practice Questions

Question 1

Question 1.
Which of the following is an advantage of a virtual browser?

answer
Protects the host operating system from malicious downloads
Filters internet content based on ratings
Prevents phishing and drive-by downloads
Prevents adware and spyware that monitor your internet activity

Answer 1

Correct Answer:
Protects the host operating system from malicious downloads

Question 2

Question 2.
A tech company wants to increase its security measures by isolating its various development, testing, and production environments.
The company wants to ensure that these environments are reproducible and managing these dependencies consistently.
Which approach would be MOST beneficial in meeting these requirements?

answer
Virtualization
Industrial control systems (ICS)/supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
Containerization
Software-defined networking (SDN)

Answer 2

Correct Answer:
Containerization

Question 3

Question 3.
Evaluating the security risks tied to a company’s virtualized environment, a network administrator relies on multiple virtual machines (VMs) for service distribution throughout the infrastructure.
The administrator’s primary concern is a specific risk: an application compromised within a VM might interact with the host system and potentially propagate harmful activities.
What strategy should the network administrator employ to mitigate this risk and guarantee the individual VMs’ integrity and isolation in the company’s virtualized environment?

answer
Establishing firewall rules
Mitigating virtual machine escape
Enforcing user access controls
Implementing network segmentation

Answer 3

Correct Answer:
Mitigating virtual machine escape

Question 4

Question 4.
Which of the following devices is computer software, firmware, or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines?

answer
Virtual firewall
Hypervisor
Virtual switch
Virtual router

Answer 4

Correct Answer:
Hypervisor

Question 5

Question 5.
Which of the following is a technique that disperses a workload between two or more computers or resources to achieve optimal resource utilization, throughput, or response time?

answer
Load balancing
Hypervisor
Virtualization
Bottleneck

Answer 5

Correct Answer:
Load balancing

Question 6

Question 6.
What is isolating a virtual machine from the physical network to allow testing to be performed without impacting the production environment called?

answer
Sandboxing
Testing
Workload balancing
Resource pooling

Answer 6

Correct Answer:
Sandboxing

Question 7

Question 7.
Which of the following is a disadvantage of server virtualization?

answer
A compromised guest system might affect multiple servers.
It increases hardware costs.
Systems are isolated from each other and cannot interact with other systems.
A compromised host system might affect multiple servers.

Answer 7

Correct Answer:
A compromised host system might affect multiple servers.

Question 9

Question 8.
Which type of hypervisor runs as an application on the host machine?

answer
Type 1
Type 2
Type 3
Type 4

Answer 9

Correct Answer:
Type 2

Question 10

Question 9.
Which of the following are advantages of virtualization? (Select two.)

answer
Improved host-based attack detection
Centralized administration:
Redundancy of hardware components for fault tolerance
Reduced utilization of hardware resources
Easy migration of systems to different hardware

Answer 10

Correct Answer:
Centralized administration:

Correct Answer:
Easy migration of systems to different hardware

Question 11

Question 10.
Which load balancing method distributes a workload across multiple computers?

answer
Bottleneck
Virtualization
Workload balancing
Resource pooling

Answer 11

Correct Answer:
Workload balancing