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Which physical component is distributed among multiple virtual machines running on the same hypervisor?

The correct answer is D. hardware resources. The question asks to identify a physical component that is shared and allocated among multiple virtual machines operating on a single hypervisor.

Submitted by helene.fr· Mar 5, 2026

Question

Which physical component is distributed among multiple virtual machines running on the same hypervisor?

Options

  • Aexternal storage
  • Bnetwork interfaces
  • Cbackplane network
  • Dhardware resources

How the community answered

(39 responses)
  • A
    3% (1)
  • B
    3% (1)
  • C
    8% (3)
  • D
    87% (34)

Why each option

The question asks to identify a physical component that is shared and allocated among multiple virtual machines operating on a single hypervisor.

Aexternal storage

External storage is typically accessed by VMs but is not necessarily distributed among them as a single shared physical component of the hypervisor's immediate resources in the same way CPU/RAM are.

Bnetwork interfaces

While VMs use virtual network interfaces, the underlying physical network interface card (NIC) is usually dedicated or shared at a more granular level by the hypervisor, not explicitly distributed as a primary resource type in the same manner as CPU and memory.

Cbackplane network

A backplane network is an internal communication bus within a physical server or chassis, connecting components, but it is not directly 'distributed' to virtual machines; rather, VMs use resources connected to it.

Dhardware resourcesCorrect

Hardware resources, such as CPU cores, RAM, and I/O bandwidth, are virtualized and distributed by the hypervisor among all the virtual machines running on the physical host. Each VM is allocated a logical slice of these underlying physical resources to operate.

Concept tested: Virtualization resource sharing on hypervisors

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-server-2016/hyper-v-concepts

Topics

#Hypervisor#Virtualization resources#Resource sharing

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