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Introduction to
Internet of Things
Assignment-Week 9
TYPE OF QUESTION: MCQ/MSQ
Number of questions: 15 Total marks: 15 X 1= 15

QUESTION 1:

Openstack is a free open source software for cloud framework simulation and experimentation with
various cloud applications.

a. True
b. False

Correct Answer: a. True

Detailed Solution: Openstack is a free open source software for cloud framework simulation and
experimentation with various cloud applications. It can be downloaded and installed for free. Refer Lecture
41.

QUESTION 2:

Which among the following is NOT a component of OpenStack.

a. Horizon
b. Heat
c. Plasma
d. Neutron

Correct Answer: c. Plasma

Detailed Solution: Plasma is not a component of OpenStack. The rest are various components, including
Nova, Glance, Swift etc. Refer lecture 41, ppt No. 4
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QUESTION 3:

You cannot ping your OpenStack instance from an outside network unless you connect your instance with
the public network through a ____________

a. Router
b. Firewall
c. Repeater
d. Load balancer

Correct Answer: a. Router

Detailed Solution: You are supposed to connect your virtual OpenStack instance with the public network
through a router (Please refer Lecture 41@17:41)

QUESTION 4:

Virtualized resources within the OpenStack simulator that you can define, set parameters of and deploy
within OpenStack are also known as

a. Instances
b. Files
c. Hypervisors
d. Sketches
Correct Answer: a. Instances

Detailed Solution: In OpenStack instances refer to the virtual resources that you define, initialize and
deploy. Refer Lecture 41@15:36
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QUESTION 5:

The SCSP in sensor clouds is responsible for caching the data in the databases.

a. True
b. False

Correct Answer: a. True

Detailed Answer: The SCSP in sensor clouds is responsible for caching the data in the databases. (Please
refer Lecture 42@14:25)

QUESTION 6:

Select the correct option for replacing the box (in red) in the following architecture for sensor cloud user
organization view.

a. User credentials
b. Template display
c. Template view
d. User view
Correct Answer: c. Template view
Detailed Solution: The browser interface sends template view and sensed information to the user
organization module in the sensor cloud user organization view. (Please refer Lecture 42@15:16)

QUESTION 7:

Which among the following is the principal feature of sensor clouds, with respect to sensor nodes?

a. Sensor monitoring
b. Sensor instantiation
c. Sensor virtualization
d. Sensor collection

Correct Answer: c. Sensor virtualization

Detailed Solution: Sensor virtualization is the principal feature of sensor clouds and their utility.
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Refer lecture 42 and 43 on Sensor cloud

QUESTION 8:

Caching in sensor cloud provide no benefit over regions with slow environmental monitoring rate.

a. True
b. False

Correct Answer: b. False

Detailed Solution: To prevent unnecessarily energy wastage in continuous sensing operation, sensor
cloud uses caching. Refer lecture 42 and 43.

QUESTION 9:

How many different types of caching mechanism are there in sensor cloud?

a. 1
b. 4
c. 2
d. 3

Correct Answer: c. 2

Detailed Answer: Internal Cache (IC) and External Cache (EC) are two different types of caching
mechanisms used in sensor cloud. Refer lecture 43, ppt No. 13

QUESTION 10:

Virtual sensors within a sensor cloud have communication interfaces with _______________.

a. Only the physical sensors below them

b. Only the end-user applications above them.
c. Both physical sensors below and applications above.
d. Neither the physical sensors, nor the applications above.
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Correct Answer: c. Both physical sensors below and applications above

Detailed Solution: Virtual sensor layer sits in the middle having interface to both physical sensors as well
as applications. (Please refer Lecture 3@9:24 and 28:01)

QUESTION 11:

Data from an IoT device is transferred to cloud via a network, which is then processed at the cloud and then
a response is sent back to the IoT device from the cloud after processing. The time it takes for one-way data
transfer between the node and cloud is 10s and the data processing time at the cloud is ‘x’ seconds. It takes
a total of 25s for the entire to and fro transfer of data between the sensor and cloud along with processing
at the cloud. What is the value of x?

a. 10s
b. 5s
c. 15s
d. 20s

Correct Answer: b. 5s

Detailed Solution: Time taken for one-way data transfer between the node and cloud is 10s. Total time
taken for the data transfer is 25s. So 25=10+x+10 (transfer from node to cloud+processing at
cloud+transfer from cloud to node). Thus x = 5s.

QUESTION 12:

In IoT, temporal sensitivity of data plays an important role

a. True
b. False

Correct Answer: a. True

Detailed Solution: IoT data can be classified in to time sensitive data, less time sensitive data and data not
sensitive to time. Hence time sensitivity plays a big role in IOT data classification. Refer lecture 44 on Fog
Computing.
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QUESTION 13:

Extremely time sensitive data in IoT should be processed and analyzed ____________.

a. Farthest away from source

b. Closest to the source
c. Distance between source and place of analysis does not matter
d. None of these

Correct Answer: b. Closest to the source

Detailed Solution: Extremely time sensitive data should be processed and analyzed closest to the source,
so that prompt action can be taken immediately. Refer lecture 44 on Fog Computing, ppt No. 17.

QUESTION 14:

Which among the following is a view of a Fog Computing Architecture?

a. Node View
b. System View
c. Software View
d. All of these

Correct Answer: d. All of these

Detailed Solution: Fog Computing Architectural framework has several views, node, system and software
among them. Refer Chapter 11 (Page 260 - 263) of “Introduction to IoT” by Sudip Misra, Anandarup
Mukherjee, Arijit Roy, Cambridge University Press.
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QUESTION 15:

Which among the following is true?

a. Fog computing acts as a complement to cloud computing.

b. Fog computing is a replacement for cloud computing.
c. Fog computing and cloud computing are the same.
d. Fog computing is more powerful than cloud computing (with respect to resources).

Correct Answer: a. Fog computing acts as a complement to cloud computing.

Detailed Solution: Fog computing and cloud computing are complementary technologies. Fog helps in
bringing the cloud closer to the IoT devices. (Please refer Lecture 45@1:06)

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