Configure Hyper-V Flashcards
What Hyper-V feature introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2 defines the startup memory as the minimum amount of memory that a virtual machine can have?
Dynamic Memory
Which cmdlet will create a new switch team that is manipulated by a forwarding extension in the Hyper-V Extensible Switch?
New-NetSwitchTeam
What feature of Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2 uses disk resources as additional, temporary memory when more memory is required to restart a virtual machine?
Smart Paging
What does the convert option do in the Virtual Hard Disk wizard?
It converts a virtual hard disk by copying the contents to a new virtual hard disk. The new virtual disk can use a different type and format then the original virtual hard disk.
Which virtual hard disk format, VHD or VHDX, provides protection against corruption during power failures?
VHDX
Which guest operating system(s) support enhanced session mode connections?
Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1
Which Windows server versions can run as a guest operating system on a Hyper-V host that can use a virtual Fibre Channel Adapter to connect to an attached virtual SAN?
Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2
Which local resource can be redirected to a virtual machine session through Virtual Machine Connection tool through enhanced session mode?
- Display Configuration
- Audio
- Printers
- Clipboard
- Smart Cards
- USB Devices and Drives
- Supported Plug and Play Devices
Which generation(s) of virtual machines supports both VHD and VHDXs?
Generation 1 virtual machines only
Which services under Integration Services in Hyper-V Manager can you make available to a virtual machine?
- Operating System Shutdown
- Time Synchronization
- Data Exchange
- Heartbeat
- Backup (volume snapshot)
What action must you perform on a running Generation 2 virtual machine before disabling Secure Boot?
Power off the VM
Which feature of the Hyper-V role allows you to specify whether a VM is allowed to change its source MAC address for outgoing packets?
MAC address spoofing
What is the difference between a fixed size virtual hard disk and a dynamically expanding virtual hard disk?
- A fixed size uses the size of the virtual hard disk and does not change when data is deleted or added
- A dynamically expanding disk is created small, and changes as data is added
Which generation(s) of virtual machines can have a boot disk with either a MBR partition table or a GPT partition table?
Generation 2 virtual machines only
What feature of Hyper-V in a multitenant environment ensures that VMs belonging to one tenant do not consume excessive storage resources, affecting VMs that belong to another tenant?
Storage Quality of Service (QOS) for Hyper-V
What action must you perform before attaching a VHDX from a Generation 2 virtual machine to a Generation 1 virtual machine?
None. VHDXs created on Generation 2 virtual machines will work on Generation 1 virtual machines
Which feature of the Hyper-V role allows you to charge departments based on how much resources the virtual machines assigned to a particular department use?
resource metering
Which PowerShell cmdlet is used to create port mirroring?
Set-VMNetworkAdatper
What allows a virtual machine to connect to a virtual SAN attached to a Windows Server 2012 server with the Hyper-V role installed?
virtual Fibre Channel Adapter
What cmdlet will remove a specific NIC team from a Windows Server 2012 R2 Server Core installation?
Remove-NetLbfoTeam
Which virtual hard disk format, VHD or VHDx, is recommended for servers needing more than 2 TB of storage?
VHDX
What Windows Server 2012 R2 function replaced the Snapshot function in Hyper-V manager of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012?
Checkpoint
What setting of a virtual machine in Hyper-V manager allows you to select the order in which boot devices are checked to start the operating system?
Startup Order
Which cmdlet creates a point-in-time image of a virtual machine for later use?
Checkpoint-vm
Which type of virtual hard disk is recommended for servers running applications with high levels of disk activity?
Fixed size VHD
If a virtual machine has a legacy network adapter, how can you specify the minimum and maximum bandwidth that the adapter can use?
You must replace the legacy network adapter with a non-legacy network adapter
Which type of virtual hard disk provides better use of physical storage space and is recommended for servers running applications that are not disk-intensive?
Dynamically expanding virtual hard drive that uses the VHDX format
Which feature of the Hyper-V role allows you to specify limits on the physical hardware, such as setting the relative weight and the percentage of total resources on a processor?
Resource Control
Software based keyboards are found in which generation(s) of virtual machines?
Generation 2 only
Which generation(s) of virtual machines uses a virtual floppy disk to contain an unattended install answer file?
Generation 1 virtual machines only
What is the default generation of a new virtual machine on a Windows Server 2012 R2 server running Hyper-V?
Generation 1
Which generation(s) of virtual machines allows a virtual machine to boot from a device attached to a SCSI controller?
Generation 2 virtual machines only
After you have selected Save my settings for future connections to this virtual machine and then clicked Connect to connect to a virtual machine that supports enhanced session mode in a Virtual Connection session, where is the configuration file saved?
%appdata%\roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V\Client\1.0
Which feature of the Hyper-V role allows you to make services such as Volume Shadow Copy Service, time synchronization, and operating system shutdown available to a virtual machine?
Integration services
What setting of a virtual machine in Hyper-V manager specifies the behavior of the VM when the physical computer starts?
Automatic Start Action
Which feature of the Hyper-V role addresses the scalability issues of VLANs where tenants each have multiple virtual subnets?
Port Virtual Local Area Network (PVLAN)
Which feature of the Hyper-V role allows traffic sent to or from a Hyper-V Virtual Switch port to be copied and sent to a mirror port?
Port mirroring
What feature of a Generation 2 virtual machine helps prevent unauthorized code from running at boot time?
Secure boot
When a virtual machine snapshot is deleted, why is the deleted snapshot’s storage space available without requiring a VM restart?
In Windows Server 2012, operations that keep the virtual machine and any remaining snapshots synchronized after deleting a snapshot occur while the VM remains running
When enabled, what feature of Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2 allows network traffic to bypass the software switch layer of the Hyper-V virtualization stack?
Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
What PowerShell cmdlet creates a snapshot of each virtual machine on a Windows Server 2012 R2 server that is running the Hyper-V role?
Get-VM -ComputerName | Checkpoint-VM
When can single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) be configured in Virtual Switch Manager?
only when a virtual switch is created
What is the difference between deleting a virtual machine snapshot in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2 versus in Windows Server 2012?
When you delete a snapshot in Hyper-V Manager in Windows Server 2012, you do not have to restart or turn off the virtual machine to reclaim the space
Which cmdlet will remove a network adapter member from a switch team?
Remove-NetSwitchTeamMember
What type of network adapter is required on a virtual machine to perform a network-based operating system installation for the VM?
legacy network adapter
Why do pass-through disks give better performance than virtual disks for a virtual machine on a Hyper-V host?
Pass-through disks allow for the virtual machines to get raw disk access, which is important when you have a storage operating system controlling the drives
When you want to set up a pass-through disk for a virtual machine, what state must you configure for the physical disk in the Disk Management snap-in?
offline
Which generation(s) of virtual machines allows the VM to boot using IPv6?
Generation 2 virtual machines only
how does the load balancing and failover of network traffic differ between Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2?
Unlike Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2 provides a balanced load distribution between NICs in a NIC team