What are two benefits of Containers versus Virtual Machines? (Choose two.)

Question

Options

• AEmulate an entire computing environment, including all OS resources
• BHas the ability to run multiple applications requiring different OSs on a single piece of
• CRequires fewer IT resources to deploy, run, and manage
• DCan spin up in milliseconds

• A
  7% (3)
• B
  2% (1)
• C
  91% (41)

Explanation

Containers win on resource efficiency (C) because they share the host OS kernel rather than running a full OS stack, meaning less CPU, RAM, and storage overhead. They also start in milliseconds (D) because there's no OS boot sequence - the container runtime simply launches an isolated process. Options A and B describe Virtual Machine strengths, not containers: VMs emulate an entire hardware/OS environment (A), which is precisely what makes them heavier, and the ability to run workloads requiring different OSes on one host (B) requires a hypervisor-based VM approach since containers share the host kernel and can't run a Windows container on a Linux host natively. Memory tip: Think "C = Cheap resources, D = Done in milliseconds" - containers are lean and fast because they skip the full OS.

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