CLOUD

1) What is cloud compu ng?

Cloud compu ng is an internet based new age computer technology. It is the next stage
technology that uses the clouds to provide the services whenever and wherever the user
need it.It provides a method to access several servers world wide.

2) What are the benefits of cloud compu ng?

The main benefits of cloud compu ng are:
o Data backup and storage of data.
o Powerful server capabili es.
o Incremented produc vity.
o Very cost effec ve and me saving.
o So ware as Service known as SaaS.

3) What is a cloud?
A cloud is a combina on of networks ,hardware, services, storage, and interfaces that helps
in delivering compu ng as a service. It has three users :
1. End users
2. Business management users
3. cloud service provider

4) What are the different data types used in cloud compu ng?
There are different data types in cloud compu ng like emails, contracts, images , blogs etc.
As we know that data is increasing day by day so it is needed to new data types to store
these new data. For an example, if you want to store video then you need a new data type.

5) Which are the different layers that define cloud architecture?

Following are the different layers that are used by cloud architecture:
o CLC or Cloud Controller
 o Walrus
o Cluster Controller

o SC or Storage Controller
o NC or Node Controller

6) Which pla orms are used for large scale cloud compu ng?
The following pla orms are used for large scale cloud compu ng:
o Apache Hadoop
o MapReduce

7) What are the different layers in cloud compu ng? Explain working of them.
There are 3 layers in the hierarchy of cloud compu ng.
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS):It provides cloud infrastructure in terms of hardware as like
memory, processor, speed etc.
Pla orm as a service (PaaS):It provides cloud applica on pla orm for the developer.

So ware as a service (SaaS)::It provides the cloud applica ons to users directly without
installing anything on the system. These applica ons remains on cloud.

8) What do you mean by so ware as a service?

So ware As a Service (SaaS) is an important layer of cloud compu ng. It provides cloud
applica ons like Google is doing. It facilitate users to save their document on the cloud and
create as well.

9) What is the pla orm as a service?

It is also a layer in cloud architecture. This model is built on the infrastructure model and
provide resources like computers, storage and network. It is responsible to provide complete
virtualiza on of the infrastructure layer, make it look like a single server and invisible for
outside world.

10) What is on-demand func onality? How is it provided in cloud compu ng?
Cloud compu ng provides a on-demand access to the virtualized IT resources. It can be used
by the subscriber. It uses shared pool to provide configurable resources. Shared pool
contains networks, servers, storage, applica ons and services.

11) What are the pla orms used for large scale cloud compu ng?
Apache Hadoop and MapReduce are the pla orms use for large scale cloud compu ng.

12) What are the different models for deployment in cloud compu ng?
These are the different deployment model in cloud compu ng:
Private cloud
Public cloud
Hybrid cloud
Community cloud

13) What is private cloud?

Private clouds are used to keep the strategic opera ons and other reasons secure. It is a
complete pla orm which is fully func onal and can be owned, operated and restricted to
only an organiza on or an industry. Now a day, most of the organiza ons have moved to
private clouds due to security concerns. Virtual private cloud is being used that operate by a
hos ng company.

14) What is public cloud?

The public clouds are open to the people for use and deployment. For example: Google and
Amazon etc. The public clouds focus on a few layers like cloud applica on, infrastructure
providing and providing pla orm markets.

15) What are Hybrid clouds?

Hybrid clouds are the combina on of public clouds and private clouds. It is preferred over
both the clouds because it applies most robust approach to implement cloud architecture. It
includes the func onali es and features of both the worlds. It allows organiza ons to create
their own cloud and allow them to give the control over to someone else as well.
16) What is the difference between cloud compu ng and mobile compu ng?
Mobile compu ng and cloud compu ng are slightly same in concept. Mobile compu ng
uses the concept of cloud compu ng . Cloud compu ng provides users the data which they
required while in mobile compu ng, applica ons run on the remote server and gives user
the access for storage and manage.

17) What is the difference between scalability and elas city?

Scalability is a characteris c of cloud compu ng which is used to handle the increasing
workload by increasing in propor on amount of resource capacity. By the use of scalability,
the architecture provides on demand resources if the requirement is being raised by the
traffic. Whereas, Elas city is a characteris c which provides the concept of commissioning
and decommissioning of large amount of resource capacity dynamically. It is measured by
the speed by which the resources are coming on demand and the usage of the resources.

18) What are the security benefits of cloud compu ng?

Cloud compu ng authorizes the applica on service, so it is used in iden ty management.
It provides permissions to the users so that they can control the access of another user who
is entering into the cloud environment.

19) What is the usage of u lity compu ng?

U lity compu ng is a plug-in managed by an organiza on which decides what type of
services has to be deployed from the cloud. It facilitates users to pay only for what they use.

20) What is "EUCALYPTUS" in cloud compu ng? Why is it used?

It is an acronym stands for Elas c U lity Compu ng Architecture For Linking Your Program To
Useful Systems. It is an open source so ware infrastructure in cloud compu ng and used to
implement clusters in cloud compu ng pla orm. It creates public, private and hybrid cloud.
It facilitate a user to create his own data center into a private cloud and use its
func onali es to many other organiza ons.

21) Explain System integrators in cloud compu ng.

System integrator provides a strategy of a complicated process used to design a cloud
pla orm. It creates more accurate hybrid and private cloud network because integrator have
all the knowledge about the data center crea on.
22) What are the open source cloud compu ng pla orm databases?
MongoDB, CouchDB, LucidDB are the example of open source cloud compu ng pla orm
database.

23) Give some example of large cloud provider and databases?

Google bigtable
Amazon simpleDB
Cloud based SQL

24) What is the difference between cloud and tradi onal datacenters?
The cost of the tradi onal datacenter is higher than cloud because in tradi onal databases,
there is overhea ng problems and some so ware and hardware issue.

25) What are the different in So ware as a Service (SaaS)?

Simple Mul -tenancy:In this mode, Every user has independent resources and are uniquely
different from other users. This is an efficient mode.
Fine grain mul -tenancy:: In this mode, the resources can be shared by many users but the
func onality remains the same.

26) Why API's is used in cloud services?

API's (Applica on Programming Interfaces) is used in cloud pla orm because:
It provide an alterna ve way that you don't need to write the fully fledged program.
It makes communica on between one or more applica ons.
It creates applica ons and link the cloud services with other systems.
27) What are the advantages of cloud services?
Following are the main advantages of cloud services:

o Cost saving: It helps in the u liza on of investment in the corporate sector. So, it is
cost saving.
o Scalable and Robust: It helps in the developing scalable and robust applica ons.
Previously, the scaling took months, but now, scaling takes less me.
o Time saving: It helps in saving me in terms of deployment and maintenance.

28) What are the different data centers in cloud compu ng?
1. Containerized data center
2. Low density data center

29) What do you mean by CaaS?

CaaS is a terminology used in telecom industry as Communica on As a Service. CaaS offers
the enterprise user features such as desktop call control, unified messaging and desktop
faxing.

30) What do you mean by VPN? What does it contain?

VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. VPN is a private cloud that manage the security of
the data during the communica on in the cloud environment. With VPN, you can make a
public network as private network.

31) What are the basic clouds in cloud compu ng?

There are three basic clouds in cloud compu ng:
1. Professional cloud
2. Personal cloud
3. Performance cloud

32) What are the most essen al things that must be followed before going for cloud
compu ng pla orm?
o Compliance
o Loss of data
 o Data storage
o Business con nuity

o Up me
o Data integrity in cloud compu ng

33) Which services are provided by Window azure opera ng system?

There are three core services provided by Window azure opera ng system:
o Compute
o Storage
o Management

34) What is the usage of virtualiza on pla orm in implemen ng cloud?

The main usage of virtualiza on pla orm in implemen ng cloud is:
o It is used to manage the service level policies.
o Cloud Opera ng System.
o Virtualiza on pla orms help to keep the backend level and user level concepts
different from each other.

35) We source cloud compu ng pla orm databases?

Following are the open source cloud compu ng pla orm databases:
o MongoDB
o CouchDB
o LucidDB

36) What are some large cloud providers and databases?

Following are the mostly used large cloud providers and databases:
o Google bigtable
o Amazon simpleDB
o Cloud based SQL
37) How would you secure data for transport in cloud?
This is the most obvious ques on accurued in mind that if the cloud data is secure; To
ensure that, check that there is no data leak with the encryp on key implemented with the
data you sending while the data moves from point A to point B in cloud.