Exam CCSP topic 1 question 251 discussion

Shares

The correct answer is B

C. Share. CBK Reference: Share is a weighting given to a particular VM that is used to calculate percentagebased access to pooled resouces when there is a contention.

B. Prioritization

The correct answer is B. Prioritization. In a cloud environment, resources are often shared among many different customers. When there is not enough capacity to meet the demands of all customers at the same time, the cloud provider must decide which customers will receive additional resources first. This process of determining which customers will receive additional resources first is called prioritization.

Seems like the question asks for terminology. "Shares" is a defined term in this context - "priorisation" is the desired effect, but not defined as the term for what is described.

Shares: The concept of shares is used to arbitrate the issues associated with compute resource contention situations. Resource contention implies that there are too many requests for resources based on the actual available amount of resources currently in the system. If resource contention takes place, share values are used to prioritize compute resource access for all guests assigned a certain ratio of shares. The shares are weighed and used as a percentage against all outstanding shares assigned and in use by all powered-on guests to calculate the amount of resources each individual guest will be given access to. The higher the share value assigned to a guest, the larger the percentage of the remaining resources that guest will be given access to during the contention period

This is the strangest question. Shares have weighting which determines the prioritization so hope you guess correctly.