Exam Essentials

Understand Hyper-V’s architecture.

When you have a good understanding of Hyper-V’s architecture, especially when an operating system in a virtual machine is hypervisor aware versus non-hypervisor aware, you have a solid understanding of what is important from an architectural perspective.

You should know about the Hyper-V Integration Components and how they change the behavior of a virtual machine. Also know which operating systems the integration components are available for.

Know Hyper-V’s requirements and how to install it.

Know the hardware and software requirements as well as how to install Hyper-V. Hyper-V requires an x64-based processor and Data Execution Protection (DEP), and hardware-assisted virtualization must be enabled. ...

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