az-800 Practice Question 983
Exam: az-800
Domain: Manage virtual machines and containers
Topic: Manage Hyper-V and guest virtual machines
Difficulty: medium
You have a Hyper-V host and need to provide a virtual machine with direct, exclusive access to a physical PCIe NVMe storage device, bypassing the hypervisor storage stack. Which feature should you use?
Answer Options
A
Virtual Fibre Channel
B
Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
C
Discrete Device Assignment (DDA)
D
Storage QoS
Correct Answer
C: Discrete Device Assignment (DDA)
Explanation
Discrete Device Assignment (DDA) allows physical PCIe hardware (such as NVMe drives or GPUs) to be passed directly through to a virtual machine, bypassing the Hyper-V host storage or networking stacks.