An administrator has been asked to create 100 virtual firewalls in a local, on-premise lab environment (not in "the cloud"). Bootstrapping is the most expedient way to perform this task. Which…

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Options

• AUse config-drive on a USB stick.
• BUse an S3 bucket with an ISO.
• CCreate and attach a virtual hard disk (VHD).
• DUse a virtual CD-ROM with an ISO.

• A
  9% (5)
• B
  15% (8)
• C
  4% (2)
• D
  73% (40)

Explanation

For on-premise virtual firewall deployments (e.g., VMware ESXi, KVM), the standard and supported method for bootstrapping is to create an ISO image containing the bootstrap package and attach it to the VM as a virtual CD-ROM. The virtual firewall reads the bootstrap files from the mounted ISO on first boot. Option B (S3 bucket) is specific to AWS cloud deployments. Option A (USB stick / config-drive) is used in certain cloud or bare-metal contexts but is not the standard on-premise virtual method. Option C (VHD) is associated with Azure deployments or specific disk-based bootstrapping scenarios. The virtual CD-ROM with ISO is the primary on-premise virtualization method because it is hypervisor-agnostic and straightforward to implement.

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