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Practice MCQs for Type 2 hypervisor. Test your knowledge with carefully crafted questions across easy, medium, and hard difficulty levels.

🔄 Last updated: 2026-07-27

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Q1. What term describes the virtual representation of a CPU that a VMM maintains for each guest?

🔹 A. VCPU
🔹 B. Virtual Register Set
🔹 C. Guest Thread
🔹 D. HyperThread

💡 Difficulty: easy | ✅ Correct: A

Q2. A guest OS tries to execute a privileged instruction while running under a type‑2 hypervisor. Which mechanism handles this situation?

🔹 A. Binary translation
🔹 B. Trap-and-emulate
🔹 C. Direct execution
🔹 D. I/O virtualization

💡 Difficulty: medium | ✅ Correct: B

Q3. What is the main limitation of trap-and-emulate without hardware support when a guest OS makes frequent system calls?

🔹 A. High overhead due to frequent mode switches
🔹 B. Inability to virtualize memory
🔹 C. Lack of I/O virtualization
🔹 D. Difficulty scheduling VMs

💡 Difficulty: hard | ✅ Correct: A

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