IF7202 Cloud Computing UNIT WISE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

Question Bank
Unit I

Two Marks

1. Define multi core CPU?

2. Define GPU?
3. Explain WAN?
4. What is mean by Virtualization Middleware?
5. Define datacenter growth and cost breakdown?
6. Difference between distributed and parallel computing?
7. List the design issues in clusters?
8. Define peer-to-peer network?
9. What is mean by service oriented architecture?
10. Define anything-as-a-service?
11. What is mean by SaaS?
12. What is mean by IaaS?
13. Explain PaaS?
14. Explain cloud provider and cloud broker?
15. What is the role of cloud auditor?
16. Define private cloud?
17. Define public cloud?
18. Define hybrid cloud?
19. Why communication cloud is important?
20. List the design objectives of cloud computing?

16 Marks

1. Explain Multithreading Technology?

2. Explain GPU programming model in detail?
3. Explain the Cluster Architecture in detail?
4. Explain the infrastructure of Grid computing in detail?
5. Explain the architecture of P2P system?
6. Explain the cloud computing service models?
7. Explain the NIST cloud computing reference architecture?
8. Explain the cloud eco system?
Unit II

Two Marks

1. What is mean by Virtualization?

2. What are the levels of virtualization?
3. Define virtual machine monitor?
4. Explain Instruction Set Architecture level of virtualization?
5. Explain hardware abstraction level of virtualization?
6. Explain operating system level of virtualization?
7. Explain library support level of virtualization?
8. Explain user application level of virtualization?
9. Write the relative merits of virtualization at various levels?
10. List the requirements of VMM?
11. Differentiate full virtualization and para-virtualization?
12. Explain Host OS and Guest OS?
13. What are the responsibilities of VMM?
14. What are the disadvantages of OS extension?
15. Define Hypervisor and Xen Server?
16. What is mean by host based virtualization?
17. Define KVM?
18. Define CPU virtualization?
19. Define memory virtualization?
20. What is mean by I/O virtualization?
21. What is the difference between physical cluster and virtual cluster?
22. Define high performance virtual storage
23. Write the steps for live VM migration?
24. What is memory migration?
25. Define file system migration?
26. What is network migration?
27. How do you partition a single physical cluster into multiple virtual cluster?
28. Explain the server consolidation?
29. Define the three resource managers?
30. Define trust management in cloud computing?

16 Marks questions

1. Explain the different levels of virtualization implementation?

2. Explain the OS level virtualization? List the pros and cons of OS level virtualization?
3. Explain in details the tools and mechanisms for virtualization?
 4. Explain the different types of virtualization in detail?
5. Explain the virtualization of CPU, Memory and I/O devices?
6. Explain the virtualization of multi core processor?
7. How do you manage the resources in virtual environment?
8. Explain the virtual clusters in detail?
9. You do you migrate memory, files, and network resources?
10. Explain the concept dynamic deployment of virtual clusters?
11. Explain the virtualization for data center automation?
12. Explain the trust management in virtual clusters?

UNIT – III

2 Marks

1. List the design goals for generic cloud?

2. List the cloud enabling technologies?
3. Explain the QoS factors in cloud?
4. Define hardware virtualization?
5. Explain the storage virtualization?
6. Define VM cloning?
7. Explain runtime support service?
8. Define software stack?
9. Define dynamic resource deployment?
10. Define the provisioning of compute resources?

16 Marks

1. Explain the cloud architecture with suitable block diagram?

2. Explain the layered cloud architecture development?
3. Explain the virtualization support and disaster recovery?
4. Explain the architectural design challenges?
5. Explain the cloud service tasks and trends?
6. Explain the different methods of resource provisioning ?
7. Explain the platform deployment in detail?
8. Explain the provisioning of storage resources in detail?

UNIT – IV

2 Marks
 1. What is the difference between parallel programming and distributed programming?
2. List the issues in parallel and distributed paradigms?
3. Define MapReduce?
4. Define iterative MapReduce?
5. Define HDFS?
6. List the characteristics of HDFS?
7. Explain the HDFS operations?
8. Define block replication?
9. Define heart beat in Hadoop? What are the advantages of heart beat?
10. Define GFS?
11. Define BigTable?
12. What is mean by NOSQL?
13. Explain the Google’s distributed lock service?
14. Define simple storage service (S3)?
15. Define Elastic Block Store (EBS)?
16. Define SQLAzure?

16 Marks

1. Explain the architecture and working principle of MapReduce?

2. Explain the dataflow and control flow of MapReduce?
3. Explain the iterative MapReduce in detail?
4. Explain the architecture of MapReduce in Hadoop?
5. Explain the programming the Google App Engine?
6. Explain the Architecture of Google File System?
7. Explain the structure of BigTable data model?
8. Explain the programming on Amazon EC2?
9. Explain the architecture of Amazon EC2 ?
10. Explain the Microsoft Azure programming support?
11. Explain the architecture and components of OpenNebula?
12. Explain the architecture of OpenStack system?

UNIT – V

2 Marks

1. What are the security challenges in cloud computing?

2. List the security issues in cloud?
3. Define security governance?
 4. Explain the security awareness in cloud?
5. Define third party risk management?
6. What are the layers in security architecture design?
7. Define VM security?
8. Explain change management?
9. Define data privacy?
10. Define security images?
11. What is mean by vulnerability assessment?
12. What is mean by password assurance testing?

16 Marks

1. Explain the Security challenges in cloud computing in detail?

2. Explain the security architecture in detail?
3. Explain the following
a. Security governance
b. Security monitoring
c. Risk management
4. Explain the Secure Software Development Life Cycle?
5. Explain in detail about Software-as-a-Service security?
6. Explain the application security in detail?
7. Explain the data security and virtual machine security in detail?
8. Explain the identity management and access control in detail?