What is a passthrough disk?  Briefly describe how it works.

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A passthrough disk is a physical disk mapped directly to a virtual machine. To the parent partition on the host computer, the disk is in an offline state. I/O requests from the virtual machine are passed through the parent partition to the disk. The parent partition no longer manages the disk, and additional CPU cycles are provided for virtual machine processing. When mapped to a passthrough disk, the guest operating system has direct access to the raw blocks of the physical storage device.

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a. number b. toNumeric c. format d. numeric

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Each row of a table is indicated using a two-sided ____ tag.

A. B. C. D.

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The ____________________ panel is used to create and manage channels.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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If an array index goes out of bounds, the program always terminates in an error.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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