CS435 SUBJECTIVE + OBJECTIVE FILES FINALL TERM

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Important MCQS
1. MCQ: MTBF stand for______________.

Correct Answers mean time between failure

2. MCQ: CSP stand for_______________.

Correct Answers Cloud Service Provider

3. MCQ: SSL stand for _____________.

Correct Answers Secure Socket Layer

4. MCQ: CIS stand for_____________.

Correct Answers Cloud Information Service

5. MCQ: The __________is called Cloudlet.

Correct Answers workload unit

6. MCQ : The characteristics of big data can be represented by ________.

Correct Answers 4vs:

7. MCQ: _______________consideration is applied to ensure SLA is not violated.

Correct Answers QoS

8. MCQ: _____________ scheduling, the task starvation can be avoided.

Correct Answers: Priority-Based

9. MCQ: SLA violation when IT resources are__________.

Correct Answers: overloaded

10. MCQ: Effective resource scheduling reduces______.

Correct Answers: Execution time

11. MCQ : The best option is to move the data center to ______.

Correct Answers: Cloud

12. MCQ: It is a third party process of finding the appropriate Cloud provider.

Correct Answers: : Cloud Brokerage

 13. MCQ: The _______________clustering creates a high-availability cluster across multiple
physical servers.

Correct Answers: Hypervisor

14. MCQ: VMs hosted on a physical server are managed by________.

Correct Answers: hypervisor

15. MCQ : Advantages of Mobile Cloud Computing:

Correct Answers: Extending battery lifetime

16. MCQ: ____________architecture is used for provisioning of dedicated IT resources.

Correct Answers: Resource reservation

17. MCQ: SDN stand for_________.

Correct Answers: Software Defined Networking

18. MCQ: API stand for_________.

Correct Answers: application program interface

19. ___________can be provided to an overloaded application on the recommendation and

budget of the PaaS consumer.
Correct Answers Scalability

20. The forensic analysis of _________is the responsibility of the consumer. Correct
Answers: laaS

21. The forensic analysis for ______________is the responsibility of the provider. Correct
Answers: SaaS

22. ______are usually related to quality metrics such as performance, reliability and
maintainability.

Correct Answers: Non-functional requirement

23. _______are provided by the system analyst to the designer.

Correct Answers: functional requirement

24. VM is migrated to other server for__________.

Correct Answers: Load Balance

25. WEP stand for_______.

Correct Answers: Wired Equivalent Privacy
 26. WPA stand for_____________.
Correct Answers ; Wi-Fi Protected Access

27. it may cause SLA violation when IT resources are ________.

Correct Answers: overloaded

28. initial investment regarding IT resource acquiring and installations are Called ?

Correct Answers: Upfront Costs

29. STEM stand for________.

Correct Answers: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

30. CloudSim requires Sun’s________.

Correct Answers: Java 8 or newer version

31. ___________architecture is used for provisioning of dedicated IT resources. Correct Answers:
Resource reservation

32. The _________scheduling can achieve low cost and meet deadline if negotiation is successful.
Correct Answers: bargain-based

33. ___________is the process of perfecting an algorithm to make it more beneficial. Correct
Answer: Optimization

34. The Cloud computing and Mobile Cloud computing are dependent upon ________usage of IT
resources offered by Cloud.
Correct Answers: remote

35. In case of Cloud computing, the providers of IaaS and PaaS manage to provide
_________uptime through server redundancy and failover systems.
Correct Answers: 99.9%

36. Load balancer module specially in case________ scaling.

Correct Answers: Horizontal

37. Consumers should consider the use of advanced procedures for ________provided by some
providers to avoid account hijacking or identity thefts.
Correct Answers: authentications

38. _______resource scheduling prioritizes the processing deadline of the users’ requests.
Correct Answers: Time-Based Resource

39. Include the running costs of the IT resources e.g., licensing fee, electricity, insurance and labor.
 Correct Answer: On-going Costs

40. Up to ________of Europeans.

Correct Answer: 70%

41. __________excludes the access privileges of terminated employees as quickly as possible to

prevent any damages.

Correct Answer: Identity as a Service (IDaaS)

42. __________is a possibility of harm or loss as a result of an activity.
Correct Answer: Risk

43. Cloud not only provides the facility of data access over the Internet.
Correct Answer: RIDA

44. The ________is configured to use all the redundant NIC. Correct Answers: virtual
switch Big data and Characteristics :

Big Data can be: Big data is a set of techniques and technologies that require new forms of
integration to uncover large hidden values from large datasets that are diverse, complex, and
of a massive scale.
The following are the three generic characteristics of big data:
➢ Data volume is huge
➢ Data may not be categorized into regular relational databases ➢ The data is
generated, captured and processed at high speed.

Security protocol name :

➢ Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
➢ Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)
➢ Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2)
Question: Mobile cloud computing application name?
➢ Mobile gaming
➢ Mobile banking
➢ Mobile education
➢ Mobile healthcare

A few runtime configurations can be controlled by SaaS consumers. These include:

➢ Usage cost control
➢ SLA monitoring
➢ Security related configurations
 Occurrence Probability and Business continuity impact:

Write the name of BOX :

1._____________

2._____________

3._____________

4._____________

Question: Accomplishment of using speed communication links for connecting cluster it resources.
 High speed communication links are used to connect the clustered IT resources for:

➢ Workload distribution
➢ Task scheduling
➢ Data sharing
➢ System synchronization

What is Cryptography?

It is a science of providing security for information. It is a science of secret communication.

The following are the five primary functions:

➢ Privacy
➢ Authentication
➢ Integrity
➢ Non-repudiation: A mechanism to prove the originality of the sender.
➢ Exchange of crypto keys which are the strings of bits used to change the format of the
data.

Effective resource scheduling reduces:

➢ Execution cost
➢ Execution time
➢ Energy consumption

Question: On which factors cost template used by providers depend?

The cost templates used by the providers depend upon:

➢ Market competition
➢ Overhead occurred during design, deployment and operations of the service
➢ Cost reduction considerations through increased sharing of IT resources

Common types of Resource Cluster Mechanism

➢ Server Cluster
➢ Database Cluster
➢ Large Dataset Clusters

Uses of remote administration console

➢
 ➢ Capacity planning
➢ Provision and releasing IT resources for on-demand usage
➢ Configure and setting cloud services
➢ Managing user accounts, security credentials, authorization and access control
➢ Monitor cloud service status, usage and performance

Lack of interoperability in cloud computing (Chat GPT)

Vendor Lock-in

➢ Incompatible APIs
➢ Data format in-compatibility

VM migration across different sources:

➢ Consolidation
➢ Upgrade/Downgrade
➢ Cloud migration
➢ Disaster recovery
➢ Load balancing
➢ Cost Optimization

A Cloud service may become disruptive/unavailable/down due to:

➢ Over burden of processing load

➢ Scheduled updates

Cloud Balancing Architecture improves/increases the following features:

➢ Load balancing
➢ Performance and scalability of IT-resources
➢ Availability and reliability of IT resources

In Dynamic Failure Detection and Recovery Architecture, The resilient watchdog module
performs the following five core functions:

➢ Monitoring
➢ Identifying an event
➢ Executing the reactive routine/s
➢ Reporting

Several factors affect the Cloud reliability

➢
 ➢ Network Dependence
➢ Safety-Critical Processing

Question : Write some threats in disaster recovery of cloud computing

➢ Power failure or disruption

➢ Computer Viruses
➢ Fire, Flood & Disgruntled Employees
➢ Lost Equipment & Desktop Failure
➢ Server failure & Network Failure

Dynamic Failure Detection and Recovery Architecture allows the implementation of an

automated recovery policy consisting of predefined steps and may involve actions such as:

➢ Running a script Sending a message

➢ Restarting services

Following are the steps in Bare-Metal Provisioning Architecture:

➢ Consumer connects to central software through self-service portal.

➢ The available servers are shown.
➢ The consumer choses the server and the OS to be installed.
➢ The resource management system is used to install the required chosen OS.
➢ The consumer starts using the provisioned server.

Following are the steps in Rapid Provisioning Architecture:

➢ A consumer chooses a VM package through self-service portal and submits the

provisioning request.
➢ The centralized provisioning module selects an available VM and initiates it through a
suitable template.
➢ Upon initiation, the baseline/s templates are applied.
➢ The VM is ready to use now.

[ Cloud Consumer’s Perspective ] The administrative rights of the IaaS consumer includes,
controlling of:

➢ Life cycle of VM (powering-On/Off and restarting)

➢ Cloud storage attachment
➢ Basic software installations (OS and pre-installed software)

➢
 ➢ Passwords and credentials
➢ Costs

[ Cloud Consumer’s Perspective ] Typically, a PaaS consumer receives the following:

➢ Cloud emulation environment

➢ Class libraries
➢ Software libraries
➢ Frameworks
➢ Databases

[ Cloud Consumer’s Perspective ] The administrative rights of the PaaS consumer includes,
controlling of:

➢ Cloud storage device selection

➢ Choosing the tools in case of ready-made environment
➢ Deployment of automated scaling listener, load balancer and replication etc.
➢ Login management of service/s developed/deployed using PaaS instance IT-resource
usage cost

[ Cloud Consumer’s Perspective ] A few runtime configurations can be controlled by SaaS

consumers. These include:

➢ Security related configurations

➢ SLA monitoring
➢ Usage cost control

Inter-Cloud providers are of two types:

➢ With extra resources

➢ With resource shortage

Business Cost Metrics:

➢ Upfront Costs

➢ On-going Costs

➢
Cost management can take place across the lifecycle phases of Cloud services. These phases
may include:

➢ Design & Development

➢ Deployment
➢ Service Contracting
➢ Provisioning & Decommissioning

The cost templates used by the providers depend upon:

➢ Market competition
➢ Overhead occurred during design, deployment and operations of the service
➢ Cost reduction considerations through increased sharing of IT resources

A pricing model for Cloud services can be composed of:

➢ Fixed and variable rates definitions

➢ Negotiations by consumers
➢ Cost customization possibilities
➢ Discount offerings
➢ Payment options

Two common metrics related to service measuring resiliency are as follows:

➢ Mean-Time System Recovery (MTSR) Metric

Mean-Time to Switchover (MTSO) Metric

➢
The key terminologies of privacy are:

➢ Data subject
➢ Data processor
➢ Data controller

Trust has two types: ➢

Hard trust

➢ Soft trust

➢ Dynamic trust (short term)

➢ Persistent trust (long term)

Five primary functions of Cryptography:

➢ Privacy
➢ Integrity
➢ Authentication
➢ Non-repudiation (A mechanism to prove the originality of the sender)
➢ Exchange of crypto keys which are the strings of bits used to change the format of the
data

Remedies for Denial of Service (DoS) attacks:

➢ Contact ISP to clarify the reason of downgraded network performance

➢ ISP can help in throttling malicious traffic
➢ Using DoS detection tools

Some prominent security protocols for wireless security are:

➢ Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)

➢ Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)
➢ Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2)

Encryption helps in countering:

➢ Insufficient authorization

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 ➢ Traffic eavesdropping
➢ Malicious intermediary
➢ Overlapping trust boundaries

There are two basic types of encryption:

➢ Symmetric Encryption
➢ Asymmetric Encryption

Identity and Access Management (IAM) Consist of four main components:

➢ Authentication (verifies user identities)

➢ Authorization (grants access to specific resources based on user roles and permissions)
➢ User management (creates, updates, and deletes accounts as needed)
➢ Credential management

Several factors affect the Cloud reliability:

➢ Network Dependence
➢ Safety-Critical Processing

The system requirements are of two types:

➢ Functional (What the cloud service should do)

➢ Non functional (How well the cloud service should perform)

Cloud Solution Design Metrics:

➢ Accessibility
➢ Audit
➢ Availability
➢ Maintainability
➢ Backup

In Cloud Resource Scheduling, There are two main steps:

➢ Resource provisioning
➢ Resource scheduling

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Effective resource scheduling reduces:

➢ Energy consumption
➢ Execution time
➢ Execution cost

Cloud Resource Scheduling Fulfills following QoS requirements:

➢ Security
➢ Availability
➢ Reliability
➢ Scalability

Types of computational offloading:

➢ Static
➢ Dynamic

Generic characteristics of big data:

➢ Data volume is huge

➢ The data is generated, captured and processed at high speed.
➢ Data may not be categorized into regular relational databases

The characteristics of big data can be represented by 4vs:

➢ Value
➢ Volume
➢ Velocity
➢ Variety

popular models for big data:

➢ Distributed Map Reduce model (popularized by Hadoop)

➢ NoSQL model (used for non-relational, non-tabular storage)
➢ SQL RDBMS model (for relational tabular storage of structured data)

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Software Defined Networking (SDN) has four characteristics:

➢ Standardized APIs
➢ Centralization of control plane
➢ Programmable control plane
➢ Separation of control and data planes

Online gaming consists of four basic building blocks:

➢ Networking module
➢ Input module
➢ Rendering module
➢ Game logic module

Advantages of Mobile Cloud Computing:

➢ Extending battery lifetime

➢ Improving data storage capacity and processing power
➢ Improving reliability
➢ Additionally

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