10/29/24, 11:23 PM Cloud Computing NPTEL week 1 - 4

Cloud Computing NPTEL week 1 - 4

Week 1

Which of the following fall(s) under the “essential characteristics” of cloud computing? * 1 point

A. Resource Pooling

B. Measured Service

C. Rapid Elasticity

D. Latency

“Google Doc” is an example of * 1 point

A. PaaS

B. IaaS

C. SaaS

D. FaaS

Business-Process-as-a-Service is not a part of XaaS. * 1 point

A) True

B) False

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Network Function Virtualization involves the implementation of _______ function in * 1 point

software that can run on a range of industry-standard servers ______________.

A. network,software

B. hardware, software

C. hardware, network

D. network,hardware

Which are the following applications for SaaS (Software as a Service) architecture? * 1 point

A) Billing software

B) CRM

C) App engines

D) None of above

Web access to commercial software is one of the SaaS characteristics in the cloud * 1 point
computing paradigm.

A. True

B. False

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In the case of the client-server model: Statement (i) Virtualization is a core concept; * 1 point
Statement (ii) system can scale infinitely

A) Only Statement (i) is correct

B) Only Statement (ii) is correct

C) Both Statements (i) and (ii) are correct

D) None of the statements is correct

Client-server model is always load-balanced * 1 point

A. True

B. False

PaaS (Platform as a Service) brings the benefits: (i) Creation of software (ii) Integration * 1 point
of web services and databases

A. Only (i)

B. Only (ii)

C. Both (i) and (ii)

D. Neither (i) nor (ii)

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Which of the following is false? 1 point

a) Private cloud is dedicated solely to an organization.

b) Community cloud is a composition of public and private cloud.

c) Public cloud is available to the general public.

d) None of these

Week 2

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) possess: * 1 point

a) A service provider, service requestor and service broker

b) A service provider and service requestor

c) A service requestor and service broker

d) Only a service broker

XML is designed to describe _________. * 1 point

a) pricing

b) SLA

c) data

d) service

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SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) does not restrict the endpoint implementation * 1 point

technology choices. SOAP is a platform-neutral choice.

A. True

B. False

A Cyber‐Physical Cloud Computing (CPCC) architectural framework is a * 1 point

________environment that can rapidly build, modify and provision cyber‐physical

systems composed of a set of__________ based sensor, processing, control, and data
services.

a) system, cloud computing

b) cloud computing, system

c) system, edge computing

d) edge, system computing

Network Virtualization is a _________ environment that allows _______ service * 1 point

providers to dynamically compose ____________virtual networks.

a) networking, single, single

b) physical, single, multiple

c) networking, multiple, single

d) networking, multiple, multiple

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Customized wearable devices for collecting health parameters are the best examples * 1 point

of

a) IoHT

b) Fog device

c) Fog-Cloud interfaced.

d) Cloud-Fog-Edge-IoHT

Dew Computing is a paradigm where on-premises computers provide functionality that * 1 point

is _________ of cloud services and is also collaborative with cloud services

a) dependant

b) independent

c) partial dependant

d) none of these

SOAP uses ______ as transport protocol * 1 point

a) UDDI

b) SLA

c) HTTP

d) XML

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Virtual Machine Monitor is also known as * 1 point

a) Cluster Manager

b) Virtual Machine Handler

c) Virtual Machine Manager

d) Hypervisor

Which of the following is/are XML parser API(s)? * 1 point

a) XaaS (Anything as a Model)

b) SAX (Simple API to XML)

c) CLI (Command Line Interface)

d) DOM (Document Object Model)

Week 3

Which of the following statement(s) regarding OpenStack storage is/are right? * 1 point

A. Object storage is managed by Cinder

B. Both ephemeral storage and block storage are accessible from within VM

C. Block storage persists until VM is terminated

D. Ephemeral storage is used to run operating system and/or scratch space

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A task takes time T in a uniprocessor system. In a parallel implementation, the task * 1 point
runs on P processors parallelly. The parallel efficiency is Eff, where 0<Eff<1. What is
the time taken by each processor (M) in this implementation?

A. M = T

B. M = T/(Eff×P)

C. M = T/P

D. M = (T×Eff)/P

What does the term "biasness towards vendors" imply in the context of SLA * 1 point
monitoring?

A. Vendor-driven selection of monitoring parameters

B. Customer-driven selection of monitoring parameters

C. Balanced approach in monitoring parameters

D. Lack of active monitoring on the customer's side

How does the master node in the Google File System maintain communication with * 1 point
chunk servers?

A. Command messages

B. Update messages

C. Query messages

D. Heartbeat messages

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In a cloud, total service uptime is 175 minutes and availability of the service is 0.85. * 1 point

What is the service downtime?

A. 55 minutes

B. 148.75 minutes

C. 26.25 minutes

D. 45 minutes

Statement 1: In ephemeral storage, the stored objects persist until the VM is * 1 point
terminated.
Statement 2: The ephemeral storage is managed by Cinder in OpenStack.

A. Statement 1 is TRUE, Statement 2 is FALSE

B. Statement 2 is TRUE, Statement 1 is FALSE

C. Both statements are TRUE

D. Both statements are FALSE

“Midsize providers can achieve similar statistical economies to an infinitely large * 1 point
provider” Does this fall under?

A. Correlated demand

B. Dependent demand

C. Independent demand

D. Mixed demand

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Let D(t) and R(t) be the instantaneous demand and resources at time t respectively. If * 1 point
demand is exponential (D(t)=et), any fixed provisioning interval (tp) according to the
current demands will fall linearly behind.

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Which of the following is/are expected common SLA parameter(s) for both Software- * 1 point

as-a-Service and Storage-as-a-Service models?

A. usability

B. scalability

C. recovery

D. None of these

Data retention and deletion by cloud providers do not fall under one of the SLA * 1 point
requirements.

A. True

B. False

Week 4

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SQL Azure is a cloud-based relational database service that is based on: * 1 point

(a) Oracle

(b) SQL Server

(c) MySQL

(d) None

Microsoft Azure provides * 1 point

(a) SaaS

(b) PaaS

(c) IaaS

(d) None

Azure App Service plan defines * 1 point

(a) Region

(b) Instance size

(c) Scale count

(d) None

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The OpenStack component - Glance monitors and meters the OpenStack cloud for * 1 point
billing, benchmarking.
State True of False.

A. True

B. False

GCP: Choose the correct option(s) * 1 point

a) To run your web-application, you need to configure only the Google Storage bucket

b) “gcloud app deploy app.yaml” the command can be used to deploy your app to app-engine

c) After launching your application to app-engine anyone can view the app at
http://[YOUR_PROJECT_ID].appspot.com

d) “gcloud app browse” – can be used to start the local development server for the application

In OpenStack, the different components of Nova (e.g. scheduler, Compute, api etc.) * 1 point
communicates via:

(a) Message Queues

(b) Neutron

(c) Conductor

(d) Swift

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In OpenStack, __________ is a system for managing networks and IP addresses. * 1 point

(a) Nova

(b) Keystone

(c) Neutron

(d) None of these

Cloud DataStore in GCP is a NoSQL document database built for automatic scaling, * 1 point
high performance, and ease of application development

a) True

b) False

GCP: Which one is/are correct statement(s)? * 1 point

a) You can reuse the project ID only after you delete the previous project in GCP

b) A CNAME alias is a DNS record that lets you use a URL from your own domain to access
resources, such as a bucket and objects, in Cloud Storage using your custom domain URL

c) “Multi-Regional” Storage class is used for the bucket to stream videoes and host hot web
content accessed frequently around the world

d) “Nearline” Storage class is used for the bucket to store data accessed frequently in one part of
the world

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OpenStack: Which IP use is preferred for transferring data to a VM from * 1 point

(i) Another VM in the same cloud

(ii) One organization's network-

(a) i. Floating IP, ii. Private IP

(b) i. Private IP, ii. Floating IP

(c) Floating IP in both cases

(d) Private IP in both cases

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