Designing and Providing Microsoft Licensing Solutions to Large Organizations — Question 26

A customer has a physical server that has four 4-core processors. The server has five virtual machines that have two cores each. The virtual machines have
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Enterprise installed.
What is the minimum number of required SQL Server 2016 Enterprise core licenses?

Answer options

• A. 10
• B. 16
• C. 20
• D. 32 A

Correct answer:

Explanation

To determine the minimum number of required SQL Server 2016 Enterprise core licenses, you need to license all cores that are allocated to the virtual machines. With five virtual machines running two cores each, that totals 10 cores. Therefore, the correct answer is 10, while the other options are either overestimations or do not account for the actual core allocation.