NPTEL - CC - Assignment 11
NPTEL - CC - Assignment 11
Assignment – Week 11
Type of Question: MSQ
Number of questions: 10 Total mark: 10 X 1 = 10
QUESTION 1:
Correct Answer: (a)
Explanation: PaaS offers more control over the deployment environment than serverless
computing. Serverless computing focuses on simplifying infrastructure management, while PaaS
gives developers more options for customization and configuration.
QUESTION 2:
Correct Answer: (d)
Explanation: A function in FaaS typically has limited execution time. Functions are not constantly
active. FaaS platform listens for the events that instantiate the functions. So, the correct option is
(d)
QUESTION 3:
Correct Answer: (b)
Explanation: Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed proprietary NoSQL database service that
supports key–value and document data structures and is offered by Amazon.com as part of the
Amazon Web Services portfolio. Whereas, AmazonS3 is a simple storage service. So, the correct
option is (b).
QUESTION 4:
Correct Answer: (b)
Explanation: BigQuery is a fully-managed, serverless data warehouse that enables scalable
analysis over petabytes of data by Google. So, the correct option is ( b).
QUESTION 5:
Correct Answer: (b)
Explanation: AWS charges only when the lambda code executes
QUESTION 6:
Correct Answer: (b)
Explanation: In serverless computing the cloud service provider has to manage the scalability
needs of a function. So, the correct option is (b).
QUESTION 7:
Correct Answer: (a), (b), and (c)
Explanation: Focus on minimizing the energy consumption and carbon footprint and ensuring
reliability of CDCs is the goal of sustainable cloud computing.
QUESTION 8:
Correct Answer: (c)
Explanation: Environment Sandboxing is not a category of research initiative on sustainable cloud
computing. The other two options are. So, the correct option is (c).
QUESTION 9:
Correct Answer: (a)
Explanation: CDCs consist of a chassis and racks to place the servers to process the IT workloads.
So, the correct option is (a)
QUESTION 10:
Correct Answer: (b)
Explanation: Lambda layers are an important distribution mechanism for libraries, custom
runtimes and other imp function dependencies in AWS serverless ecosystem. So, the correct
option is (b).
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