CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) — Question 170

A systems administrator is deploying a VM and would like to minimize storage utilization by ensuring the VM uses only the storage if needs. Which of the following will BEST achieve this goal?

Answer options

• A. Compression
• B. Deduplication
• C. RAID
• D. Thin provisioning

Correct answer: D

Explanation

Thin provisioning allows a VM to use storage space on an as-needed basis, which minimizes storage consumption. Compression and deduplication are techniques for reducing the size of data but do not specifically control how much storage is allocated initially. RAID is a method for data redundancy and performance improvement, not for managing storage utilization.