A benefit of _______ is that it can divide system resources between virtual machines.

• A. Partitioning
• B. Clustering
• C. Virtualization
• D. Consolidation

Answer: (A)

Partitioning resources means slicing a server’s capacity—CPU, memory, storage, and network—into separate, dedicated portions for individual virtual machines. This division lets several VMs run on one physical host, with each VM seeing its own allocated resources and operating in isolation from the others. That isolation and defined resource allotment is exactly what enables multiple virtual machines to share a single machine without stepping on each other’s toes.

Think of it as creating little resource pools for each VM, so performance is predictable and management is straightforward. While virtualization as a technology makes this possible, the specific benefit described—dividing resources between virtual machines—fits best with partitioning. Clustering focuses on interconnecting machines for redundancy or load sharing, and consolidation is about reducing the number of physical servers by running more workloads on fewer machines; neither describes the act of dividing resources into VM-specific portions as directly.