200-901 Question 160

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  B: In the early days of computers, there were no choices regarding how to deploy your software; you simply installed it on the computer itself. Today this model is known as “bare metal,” but it is only one of a variety of options available to you. These options include virtual machines, containers, and newer options such as serverless computing.

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  Bare metal The most familiar, and the most basic way to deploy software is by installing it directly on the target computer, or the “bare metal.” In addition to this being the simplest method, bare metal deployment has other advantages, such as the fact that software can access the operating system and hardware directly. This is particularly useful for situations in which you need access to specialized hardware, or for High Performance Computing (HPC) applications in which every bit of speed counts. From Devnet Netacad Course

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  This question is a freaky and tricky Netacad : Devnet/6.1.3 "More commonly, bare metal is now used as infrastructure to host virtualization (hypervisors) " and cloud frameworks (orchestrators for virtual compute, storage, and networking resources). Cisco, among others, has pioneered development of software-defined hardware platforms (such as Cisco UCS) that make bare metal infrastructure easily configurable to serve both application and Infrastructure-as-a-Service requirements. BM is used as infrastructure to host hypervisors, but dont needly provides the hypervisor Hypervisor is a software for me , in type 1 o type 2 so, " provides the hypervisor to host virtual servers " dont make a sense. In summary B and C are correct