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ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question

During a security assessment of a multitenant IaaS environment that relies on bare-metal (Type-1) hypervisors, you discover that virtual machines from different customers may be scheduled to share the same physical CPU cores simultaneously, potentially exposing them to cache-based side-channel attacks such as Spectre or Prime+Probe. Without purchasing new hardware, which hypervisor configuration change would most effectively reduce this specific risk?

  • Configure vCPU pinning (CPU affinity) so each tenant's virtual machines are restricted to a dedicated set of physical cores.

  • Permit nested virtualization so customers can run their own hypervisors inside the guest OS.

  • Enable memory ballooning to let the hypervisor reclaim unused guest RAM.

  • Replace default drivers with paravirtualized network and storage drivers inside each guest.

ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
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