QuestionQ388

Cloud Platform & Infrastructure Security

Which statement below most accurately describes a Type 1 hypervisor?

  • A The hypervisor software runs within an operating system tied to the hardware.
  • B The hypervisor software runs as a client on a server and needs an external service to administer it.
  • C The hypervisor software runs on top of an application layer.
  • D The hypervisor software runs directly on ג€bare metalג€ without an intermediary.
Explanation

A Type 1 (bare-metal) hypervisor runs directly on the physical computing hardware and provides the virtualization layer for guest operating systems, without a host operating system as an intermediary. Microsoft Learn: Hyper-V virtualization in Windows Server and Windows

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