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1. ProTech can use hypervisors so that they can use same set of hardware
for multiple services. What are hypervisors? Explain Type-1 and Type-2
hypervisors (5 Marks)
They run directly on host machines physical hardware. They are highly
secure , efficient and performs better than hosted hypervisors. Due to these
reasons they are genrally used for high level production workloads requiring
failovers , high uptimes etc.Some of the eg’s of Type 1 are Red Hat
enterprise virtualization ,Citrix Xen server , Hyper-V
b. Type 2: Hosted or Client hypervisors.
Type 2 also known as the client hypervisor runs as a software layer on top
of the OS of the host machine. It relies on the preexisting OS of the host to
manage calls to the CPU,memory,storage ,network. These are more used in the
end user ,client related systems where security and latency is of less importance.
Some of the egs of Type 2 are Oracle VM virtual box, Vmware Fusion.
2. ProTech can move to cloud solutions. Every cloud solution comes with
some cyber risk. Describe 3 types of threats related to cyber risks. (5
Marks)
Answer :
i. Unintentional threats
Natural events even though infrequent are events like a flood , earth
quake which may cause whole of the datacenter where the server is
located to go down and inaccessible causing loss of service in case there
is no disaster recovery.