A new server comes with four CPU sockets. Which of the following describes how many dual- core microprocessors will fit on this server?

Installing only one microprocessor would leave three of the four physical sockets empty, not reflecting the maximum capacity of the server.

Two microprocessors would occupy only half of the four available sockets, also not representing the server's full physical processor capacity.

A CPU socket is a physical slot on the motherboard designed to seat exactly one processor package. A server with four CPU sockets can therefore accept four physical dual-core microprocessors. The term 'dual-core' describes the number of execution cores inside each chip, not the number of chips the board can accommodate.

Eight is the total core count across all installed processors (4 sockets x 2 cores per processor), which is a core count - not the number of physical microprocessor packages that fit in the sockets.