6: 2 Virtualization

Question 1

Client/Server Model popularity decade

Answer 1

1980s/1990s

Question 2

Virtualization Technology

Answer 2

Allowing many servers to make use of the game underlying hardware

Question 3

Host Machine

Answer 3

Runs on physical hardware, provides services to several virtualized guest machine

Question 4

Hypervisor

Answer 4

Software ran on host machine, tricks guests into thinking they are running on their own dedicated hardware

Question 5

Guest Machine

Answer 5

Has it’s own Operating System, operates as a normal computer

Question 6

Type 1 Hypervisor

Answer 6

Hypervisor sits directly on physical hardware

Question 7

Type 2 Hypervisor

Answer 7

Physical machine runs its own OS, and then a hypervisor is run on the OS

Question 8

Virtual Machine Isolation

Answer 8

Each server must have access to only its own memory and storage

Question 9

VM Escape Attack

Answer 9

Break out of the guest environment

Question 10

VM Sprawl

Answer 10

Keeping unused and unmaintained servers due to ease of creating new ones - wasteful and security risk

Question 11

VDI

Answer 11

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure - providers network based access to a desktop computing environment

Question 12

Application Virtualization

Answer 12

Streams applications to the user’s desktop

Question 13

Thin clients

Answer 13

Enabled by application virtualization