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54 real Citrix/XCP-ng questions from the Virtualization bank, as asked in Indian campus drives and tech interviews. Every question has a verified answer and an AI-tutor explanation on placd — free to start.

1. What is XCP-ng 8.3?

Junior
  1. A.The web management and backup platform for XCP-ng/Citrix Hypervisor, with XO Lite shipping on each host for agentless single-host management
  2. B.The latest long-term-support XCP-ng release, an open-source Xen-based hypervisor that is the community fork of Citrix Hypervisor
  3. C.Hyperconverged shared storage for XCP-ng built on LINSTOR/DRBD replicating disks across pool hosts.
  4. D.The Citrix/XCP-ng storage abstraction holding virtual disk images (VDIs), backed by LVM, NFS, iSCSI or local disk
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3. Which statement is correct?

Junior
  1. A.XCP-ng 8.3 — Hyperconverged shared storage for XCP-ng built on LINSTOR/DRBD replicating disks across pool hosts.
  2. B.XCP-ng 8.3 — Citrix/XCP-ng live migration that moves a running VM between hosts in a pool without downtime
  3. C.XCP-ng 8.3 — XAPI abstraction of a backing store (NFS, iSCSI, local LVM) that holds virtual disk images.
  4. D.XCP-ng 8.3 — The latest long-term-support XCP-ng release, an open-source Xen-based hypervisor that is the community fork of Citrix Hypervisor
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4. What is Xen Orchestra (XO)?

Junior
  1. A.The deprecation and removal of 32-bit classic paravirtualized guests in recent Xen/XCP-ng, pushing workloads to PVH or HVM
  2. B.Xen guest modes; PVHVM combines hardware virtualization with paravirtual drivers for best performance.
  3. C.The web management and backup platform for XCP-ng/Citrix Hypervisor, with XO Lite shipping on each host for agentless single-host management
  4. D.The privileged control domain in Xen that runs device drivers and the management toolstack.
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5. Which term means: "The web management and backup platform for XCP-ng/Citrix Hypervisor, with XO Lite shipping on each host for agentless single-host management"?

Junior
  1. A.XenMotion
  2. B.Classic PV removal
  3. C.Xen Orchestra (XO)
  4. D.PV vs HVM vs PVHVM
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6. Which statement is correct?

Junior
  1. A.Xen Orchestra (XO) — XAPI abstraction of a backing store (NFS, iSCSI, local LVM) that holds virtual disk images.
  2. B.Xen Orchestra (XO) — The latest long-term-support XCP-ng release, an open-source Xen-based hypervisor that is the community fork of Citrix Hypervisor
  3. C.Xen Orchestra (XO) — The web management and backup platform for XCP-ng/Citrix Hypervisor, with XO Lite shipping on each host for agentless single-host management
  4. D.Xen Orchestra (XO) — A group of XCP-ng/Citrix hosts sharing storage and networking, managed as one unit with a designated pool master
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7. What is XenMotion?

Junior
  1. A.The web management and backup platform for XCP-ng/Citrix Hypervisor, with XO Lite shipping on each host for agentless single-host management
  2. B.The privileged control domain in Xen that runs device drivers and the management toolstack.
  3. C.Citrix/XCP-ng live migration that moves a running VM between hosts in a pool without downtime
  4. D.Hyperconverged shared storage for XCP-ng built on LINSTOR/DRBD replicating disks across pool hosts.
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9. Which statement is correct?

Junior
  1. A.XenMotion — A modern Xen guest mode combining hardware virtualization for CPU/memory with paravirtual I/O and boot, replacing the removed classic PV mode
  2. B.XenMotion — Hyperconverged shared storage for XCP-ng built on LINSTOR/DRBD replicating disks across pool hosts.
  3. C.XenMotion — Citrix/XCP-ng live migration that moves a running VM between hosts in a pool without downtime
  4. D.XenMotion — The deprecation and removal of 32-bit classic paravirtualized guests in recent Xen/XCP-ng, pushing workloads to PVH or HVM
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10. What is Storage Repository (SR)?

Junior
  1. A.The privileged control domain in Xen that runs device drivers and the management toolstack.
  2. B.Xen guest modes; PVHVM combines hardware virtualization with paravirtual drivers for best performance.
  3. C.The deprecation and removal of 32-bit classic paravirtualized guests in recent Xen/XCP-ng, pushing workloads to PVH or HVM
  4. D.The Citrix/XCP-ng storage abstraction holding virtual disk images (VDIs), backed by LVM, NFS, iSCSI or local disk
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12. Which statement is correct?

Junior
  1. A.Storage Repository (SR) — A group of XCP-ng/Citrix hosts sharing storage and networking, managed as one unit with a designated pool master
  2. B.Storage Repository (SR) — The Citrix/XCP-ng storage abstraction holding virtual disk images (VDIs), backed by LVM, NFS, iSCSI or local disk
  3. C.Storage Repository (SR) — XAPI abstraction of a backing store (NFS, iSCSI, local LVM) that holds virtual disk images.
  4. D.Storage Repository (SR) — A modern Xen guest mode combining hardware virtualization for CPU/memory with paravirtual I/O and boot, replacing the removed classic PV mode
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13. What is PVH mode?

Senior
  1. A.The latest long-term-support XCP-ng release, an open-source Xen-based hypervisor that is the community fork of Citrix Hypervisor
  2. B.Newer XCP-ng adds qcow2 as a VDI format, raising the historic 2TB VHD virtual-disk size limit
  3. C.Open-source fork of Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer) managed by Xen Orchestra for VMs and backups.
  4. D.A modern Xen guest mode combining hardware virtualization for CPU/memory with paravirtual I/O and boot, replacing the removed classic PV mode
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14. Which term means: "A modern Xen guest mode combining hardware virtualization for CPU/memory with paravirtual I/O and boot, replacing the removed classic PV mode"?

Senior
  1. A.Xen Orchestra (XO)
  2. B.XCP-ng
  3. C.Dom0
  4. D.PVH mode
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15. Which statement is correct?

Senior
  1. A.PVH mode — A modern Xen guest mode combining hardware virtualization for CPU/memory with paravirtual I/O and boot, replacing the removed classic PV mode
  2. B.PVH mode — Xen guest modes; PVHVM combines hardware virtualization with paravirtual drivers for best performance.
  3. C.PVH mode — Citrix/XCP-ng live migration that moves a running VM between hosts in a pool without downtime
  4. D.PVH mode — The web management and backup platform for XCP-ng/Citrix Hypervisor, with XO Lite shipping on each host for agentless single-host management
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16. What is Classic PV removal?

Senior
  1. A.The web management and backup platform for XCP-ng/Citrix Hypervisor, with XO Lite shipping on each host for agentless single-host management
  2. B.Open-source fork of Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer) managed by Xen Orchestra for VMs and backups.
  3. C.The deprecation and removal of 32-bit classic paravirtualized guests in recent Xen/XCP-ng, pushing workloads to PVH or HVM
  4. D.A group of XCP-ng/Citrix hosts sharing storage and networking, managed as one unit with a designated pool master
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18. Which statement is correct?

Senior
  1. A.Classic PV removal — The Citrix/XCP-ng storage abstraction holding virtual disk images (VDIs), backed by LVM, NFS, iSCSI or local disk
  2. B.Classic PV removal — The latest long-term-support XCP-ng release, an open-source Xen-based hypervisor that is the community fork of Citrix Hypervisor
  3. C.Classic PV removal — The deprecation and removal of 32-bit classic paravirtualized guests in recent Xen/XCP-ng, pushing workloads to PVH or HVM
  4. D.Classic PV removal — Citrix/XCP-ng live migration that moves a running VM between hosts in a pool without downtime
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19. What is qcow2 support in XCP-ng?

Mid
  1. A.A group of XCP-ng/Citrix hosts sharing storage and networking, managed as one unit with a designated pool master
  2. B.The deprecation and removal of 32-bit classic paravirtualized guests in recent Xen/XCP-ng, pushing workloads to PVH or HVM
  3. C.Newer XCP-ng adds qcow2 as a VDI format, raising the historic 2TB VHD virtual-disk size limit
  4. D.Open-source fork of Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer) managed by Xen Orchestra for VMs and backups.
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21. Which statement is correct?

Mid
  1. A.qcow2 support in XCP-ng — The deprecation and removal of 32-bit classic paravirtualized guests in recent Xen/XCP-ng, pushing workloads to PVH or HVM
  2. B.qcow2 support in XCP-ng — Newer XCP-ng adds qcow2 as a VDI format, raising the historic 2TB VHD virtual-disk size limit
  3. C.qcow2 support in XCP-ng — XAPI abstraction of a backing store (NFS, iSCSI, local LVM) that holds virtual disk images.
  4. D.qcow2 support in XCP-ng — Hyperconverged shared storage for XCP-ng built on LINSTOR/DRBD replicating disks across pool hosts.
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22. What is Resource pool?

Junior
  1. A.The deprecation and removal of 32-bit classic paravirtualized guests in recent Xen/XCP-ng, pushing workloads to PVH or HVM
  2. B.A group of XCP-ng/Citrix hosts sharing storage and networking, managed as one unit with a designated pool master
  3. C.Xen guest modes; PVHVM combines hardware virtualization with paravirtual drivers for best performance.
  4. D.Hyperconverged shared storage for XCP-ng built on LINSTOR/DRBD replicating disks across pool hosts.
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24. Which statement is correct?

Junior
  1. A.Resource pool — The deprecation and removal of 32-bit classic paravirtualized guests in recent Xen/XCP-ng, pushing workloads to PVH or HVM
  2. B.Resource pool — Hyperconverged shared storage for XCP-ng built on LINSTOR/DRBD replicating disks across pool hosts.
  3. C.Resource pool — A group of XCP-ng/Citrix hosts sharing storage and networking, managed as one unit with a designated pool master
  4. D.Resource pool — Xen guest modes; PVHVM combines hardware virtualization with paravirtual drivers for best performance.
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25. What does xe vm-list do?

Mid
  1. A.A Citrix/XCP-ng CLI command that shows resource pools with their master host and UUID
  2. B.A Citrix/XCP-ng CLI command that live-migrates a VM to another host in the pool
  3. C.A Citrix/XCP-ng CLI command that lists VMs in the pool with their UUIDs and power state
  4. D.A Citrix/XCP-ng CLI command that lists storage repositories with type and capacity
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27. Which statement is correct?

Mid
  1. A.xe vm-list — XenServer/XCP-ng CLI command listing VMs with UUID, name, and power state.
  2. B.xe vm-list — A Citrix/XCP-ng CLI command that lists storage repositories with type and capacity
  3. C.xe vm-list — A Citrix/XCP-ng CLI command that live-migrates a VM to another host in the pool
  4. D.xe vm-list — A Citrix/XCP-ng CLI command that lists VMs in the pool with their UUIDs and power state
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28. What does xe vm-migrate do?

Mid
  1. A.A Citrix/XCP-ng CLI command that live-migrates a VM to another host in the pool
  2. B.A Citrix/XCP-ng CLI command that lists storage repositories with type and capacity
  3. C.A Citrix/XCP-ng CLI command that lists VMs in the pool with their UUIDs and power state
  4. D.A Citrix/XCP-ng CLI command that shows resource pools with their master host and UUID
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30. Which statement is correct?

Mid
  1. A.xe vm-migrate — A Citrix/XCP-ng CLI command that live-migrates a VM to another host in the pool
  2. B.xe vm-migrate — XenServer/XCP-ng CLI command listing VMs with UUID, name, and power state.
  3. C.xe vm-migrate — A Citrix/XCP-ng CLI command that lists VMs in the pool with their UUIDs and power state
  4. D.xe vm-migrate — A Citrix/XCP-ng CLI command that lists storage repositories with type and capacity
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