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This document contains a 10 question multiple choice quiz about cloud computing concepts from an NPTEL online certification course. The questions cover topics like properties of distributed computing, types of grids, characteristics that define utility computing versus grid or cluster computing, essential and non-essential characteristics of cloud computing, differences between public, private and community clouds, truths about virtualization, definitions of vertical scale up and characteristics of PaaS, and types of clusters. Each question is followed by the correct answer and a brief explanation of the answer.

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NPTEL CC Assignment1

This document contains a 10 question multiple choice quiz about cloud computing concepts from an NPTEL online certification course. The questions cover topics like properties of distributed computing, types of grids, characteristics that define utility computing versus grid or cluster computing, essential and non-essential characteristics of cloud computing, differences between public, private and community clouds, truths about virtualization, definitions of vertical scale up and characteristics of PaaS, and types of clusters. Each question is followed by the correct answer and a brief explanation of the answer.

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NPTEL Online Certification Courses

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Cloud Computing
Assignment- Week 1
TYPE OF QUESTION: MSQ
Number of questions: 10 Total mark: 10 X 1 = 10

QUESTION 1:
Which of the following is/are properties of distributed computing?
a) Fault tolerance
b) Resource sharing
c) Load sharing
d) None of the above

Correct Answer: a, b, c
Detailed Solution: All three are the basic properties of distributed computing.

QUESTION 2:
Which of the following is/are a type of Grid?
a) Computational Grid
b) Data Grid
c) Edge Grid
d) All of the above

Correct Answer: a, b
Detailed Solution: Types of grid are data grid, computational grid and collaboration grid.

QUESTION 3:
“On demand cyber infrastructure” - is better identified with which of the following?

a) Grid Computing
b) Cluster Computing
c) Utility Computing
d) Both ‘a’ and ‘b’

Correct Answer: c
Detailed Solution: “On demand cyber infrastructure” is better identified in Utility Computing.
NPTEL Online Certification Courses
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

QUESTION 4:
Which of the following is false about cloud computing?
a) Cloud computing is to realize service oriented architecture.
b) It is on-demand self-service.
c) Resource release needs maximal service provider interaction.
d) Provides on demand network access to a shared pool of resources.

Correct Answer: c
Detailed Solution: In cloud computing, resources can be provisioned and released with minimal
management effort from the service provider.

QUESTION 5:
Which of the following is not an essential characteristic of cloud computing?
a) Low cost software
b) Resource pooling
c) Broad network access
d) On-demand self-service

Correct Answer: a
Detailed Solution: Only resource pooling, broad network access, and on-demand self-service fall
in the essential characteristics of cloud computing.

QUESTION 6:
Which of the following is false?
a) Community cloud is a composition of public and private cloud.

b) Private cloud is dedicated solely to an organization.

c) Public cloud is available to the general public.

d) None of these

Correct Answer: a
Detailed Solution: Community cloud is shared by several organizations and serves a specific goal.
NPTEL Online Certification Courses
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

QUESTION 7:
Which of the following statements about virtualization is/are true?
I. Network virtualization provides a facility to create and provision virtual networks.
II. Migration of virtual machines is difficult.
III. Virtualization emulates more machines than are exactly available.
a) I & II are true
b) I & III are true
c) Only I is true
d) All

Correct Answer: b
Detailed Solution: Point II is irrelevant regarding virtualization.

QUESTION 8:
Vertical scale up is
a) Splitting workload across multiple computational units
b) Adding more resources to a single computation
c) Adding additional computational units
d) All of the above

Correct Answer: b
Detailed Solution: Vertical scale-up means adding more resources to a single computation.

QUESTION 9:
Which of the following is one of the characteristics of PaaS?

a) Provides tools to deploy user applications


b) Application is provided by the cloud provider
c) Resources are distributed as a service
d) None of these
Correct Answer: a
Detailed Solution: PaaS provides tools to deploy user applications.

QUESTION 10:
Which of the following is/are type(s) of Cluster?
a) Load Balancing Cluster
b) Cost Effective Cluster
c) Failover Cluster
d) Energy Efficient Cluster
NPTEL Online Certification Courses
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Correct Answer: a, c
Detailed Solution: There are three types of cluster: High Availability or Failover Clusters, Load
Balancing Cluster, and Parallel/Distributed Processing Clusters. So, options (a) and (c) are correct.
Refer to slide number 31.
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