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Cloud Computing
Assignment-Week 4
TYPE OF QUESTION: MCQ/MSQ

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Number of questions: 10 Total mark: 10 X 1 = 10

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QUESTION 1:

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SQL Azure is a cloud-based relational database service that is based on:
(a) Oracle

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(b) SQL Server
(c) MySQL
(d) None

Correct Answer: b
Solution: SQL Azure is Microsoft's cloud database service based on SQL Server database
technology and built on Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform

QUESTION 2:
Microsoft Azure provides

(a) SaaS
(b) PaaS
(c) IaaS
(d) None

Correct Answer: a, b, c
Solution: Microsoft Azure, formerly known as Windows Azure, is Microsoft's public cloud
computing platform. It provides a range of cloud services, including those for compute, analytics,
platform, storage and networking

QUESTION 3:
Azure App Service plan defines
(a) Region
(b) Instance size
(c) Scale count
(d) None

Correct Answer: a,b,c

Solution: An App Service plan defines a set of compute resources for a web app to run. Each App
Service plan defines:
I. Region (West US, East US, etc.)
II. Number of VM instances
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III. Size of VM instances (Small, Medium, Large)

IV. Pricing tier (Free, Shared, Basic, Standard, Premium, PremiumV2, Isolated, Consumption)

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QUESTION 4:

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The OpenStack component - Glance monitors and meters the OpenStack cloud for billing,

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benchmarking. State True of False.

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a) True
b) False

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Correct Answer: b
Solution: Glance image services include discovering, registering, and retrieving virtual machine
images. Ceilometer provides telemetry services, which allow the cloud to provide billing services
to individual users of the cloud.

QUESTION 5:

GCP: Choose the correct option(s)

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

Correct Answer: b, c
Solution: a) is wrong because you can’t run your web-app only configuring storage bucket, you
need a PaaS configuration. Option d) is incorrect as that command is used to view web-app.

QUESTION 6:

In OpenStack, the different components of Nova (e.g. scheduler, Compute, api etc.) communicates
via:
(a) Message Queues
(b) Neutron
(c) Conductor
(d) Swift

Correct Answer: a
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Solution: Nova is comprised of multiple server processes, each performing different functions. The
user-facing interface is a REST API, while internally Nova components communicate via an RPC
message passing mechanism

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QUESTION 7:

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

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(a) Nova
(b) Keystone

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(c) Neutron
(d) None of these

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Correct Answer: c
Solution: Neutron provides the networking capability for OpenStack. It helps to ensure that each of
the components of an OpenStack deployment can communicate with one another quickly and
efficiently.

QUESTION 8:
Cloud DataStore in GCP is a NoSQL document database built for automatic scaling, high
performance, and ease of application development
a) True
b) False

Correct Answer: a
Solution: Google Cloud Datastore is a highly scalable, fully managed NoSQL database service
offered by Google on the Google Cloud Platform. Cloud Datastore is built upon Google's Bigtable
and Megastore technology.

QUESTION 9:
GCP: Which one is/are correct statement(s)?
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

Correct Answer: c, b
Solution: We cannot use the same project ID as it is the unique identifier. Nearline Storage is
appropriate for data backup, disaster recovery, and archival storage while Regional Storage enables
to store data at lower cost and data being stored in a specific regional location, instead of having
redundancy distributed over a large geographic area.
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QUESTION 10:

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

(i) Another VM in the same cloud

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(ii) One organization's network-
(a) i. Floating IP, ii. Private IP

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

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(c) Floating IP in both cases
(d) Private IP in both cases

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Correct Answer: b

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Solution: Compute assigns a private IP address to each VM instance. Compute makes a distinction
between fixed IPs and floating IP. Fixed IPs are IP addresses that are assigned to an instance on
creation and stay the same until the instance is explicitly terminated. Floating IPs are addresses that
can be dynamically associated with an instance. A floating IP address can be disassociated and
associated with another instance at any time. A user can reserve a floating IP for their project.