A company is implementing a private cloud infrastructure and is testing its high availability components. In a planned outage test, all systems will be shut down sequentially. Which of the following…

The correct answer is C. Hypervisors. In a planned sequential shutdown of private cloud infrastructure, the shutdown proceeds from peripheral systems inward toward the core. Offsite mirrors are disconnected first since they are only replication targets and are not needed once synchronization is complete. Storage…

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Question

A company is implementing a private cloud infrastructure and is testing its high availability components. In a planned outage test, all systems will be shut down sequentially. Which of the following would be the LAST area to shut down?

Options

AOffsite mirror
BNetworking
CHypervisors
DStorage

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A
6% (3)
B
2% (1)
C
82% (41)
D
10% (5)

Explanation

In a planned sequential shutdown of private cloud infrastructure, the shutdown proceeds from peripheral systems inward toward the core. Offsite mirrors are disconnected first since they are only replication targets and are not needed once synchronization is complete. Storage systems are brought down next, followed by networking. The hypervisor layer is powered down last because it is the foundational component that hosts and manages all virtual machines. It must remain active throughout the process to orchestrate graceful VM shutdowns, flush cached data to disk, and cleanly terminate workloads. Since every cloud service runs on top of the hypervisor, it is the last component that can safely be shut down.

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