Which of the following PC configurations would benefit the MOST from additional processor cores?

The correct answer is A. Virtualization Workstation. A virtualization workstation runs multiple virtual machines (VMs) simultaneously, and each VM is typically assigned one or more dedicated CPU cores. More physical cores allow more VMs to run concurrently without performance degradation, making it the configuration that scales…

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AVirtualization Workstation
BFile Sharing Server
COffice Productivity PC
DThin Client

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A
56% (9)
B
13% (2)
C
6% (1)
D
25% (4)

Explanation

A virtualization workstation runs multiple virtual machines (VMs) simultaneously, and each VM is typically assigned one or more dedicated CPU cores. More physical cores allow more VMs to run concurrently without performance degradation, making it the configuration that scales most directly with additional cores. A file sharing server is I/O-bound (disk and network), not CPU-bound. An office productivity PC runs light single-threaded tasks. A thin client is designed to offload computation to a server and has minimal local processing needs. Virtualization is the textbook use case for multi-core processors.

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