A service provider is designing an NFVI to host multiple VNFs, including a virtual router and a virtual firewall. The virtual router is latency-sensitive and requires consistent packet processing, while the virtual firewall is less sensitive. The NFVI compute nodes have multiple physical cores. Which NFVI configuration best supports the latency-sensitive VNF?

Assign more virtual disks to the virtual router to improve I/O

Use a shared pool of cores for all VNFs to maximize utilization

Dedicate a set of physical cores exclusively to the virtual router using CPU pinning

Place the virtual router on a compute node with more memory

Which component in the NFV MANO framework is responsible for managing the lifecycle of VNFs, including instantiation, scaling, and termination?

Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM)

Operations Support System (OSS)

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A service provider is designing an NFVI to host multiple VNFs, including a virtual router and a virtual firewall. The virtual router is latency-sensitive and requires consistent packet processing, while the virtual firewall is less sensitive. The NFVI compute nodes have multiple physical cores. Which NFVI configuration best supports the latency-sensitive VNF?
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Which VNF lifecycle operation is triggered when a VNF instance experiences a software failure and needs to be restored to a working state?
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Which component in the NFV MANO framework is responsible for managing the lifecycle of VNFs, including instantiation, scaling, and termination?
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A service provider is deploying a CNF that consists of multiple microservices. The team needs to ensure that the microservices can discover each other without hardcoding IP addresses. Which Kubernetes feature provides this capability?
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In the NFV architectural framework, which reference point connects the VNF Manager to the Virtualized Infrastructure Manager?
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Which VNF lifecycle operation is triggered when a VNF instance experiences a software failure and needs to be restored to a working state?

Which component in the NFV MANO framework is responsible for managing the lifecycle of VNFs, including instantiation, scaling, and termination?

A service provider is deploying a CNF that consists of multiple microservices. The team needs to ensure that the microservices can discover each other without hardcoding IP addresses. Which Kubernetes feature provides this capability?

In the NFV architectural framework, which reference point connects the VNF Manager to the Virtualized Infrastructure Manager?

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