CLOUD COMPUTING
MODULE-1
1. Is Traditional Computing and Cloud Computing same ? Justify your answer? (4)
2. “Grid computing is considered to be the predecessor of cloud computing”. Explain the
statement? (4)
3. Differentiate Public and Private Clouds? (4)
4. Explain PaaS model for cloud computing? (5)
5. With a neat diagram explain IaaS and PaaS models? (5)
6. List 4 major cloud security challenges. (4)
7. Analyse the roles of various actors in cloud computing with the help of a reference
architecture. (6)
8. Give 4 applications of cloud computing? (4)
9. What do you understand by the term “Hybrid Clouds” & “Utility computing”? (6)
10. What are the major cloud characteristics? (5)
11. Explain in detail the cloud reference model with the help of a diagram? (8)
12. Compare and contrast cluster computing with grid and cloud computing models. (6)
13. How does cloud computing differ from the internet? (4)
14. What is SaaS in cloud computing? (5)
15. Explain the following terms “elasticity” , “scalability” in cloud computing? (4)
16. What are the pros and cons of cloud computing in comparisons of distributed and grid
computing? (4)
17. Explain the roles and boundaries in cloud computing? (4)
18. Give 5 major benefits of clod computing? (5)
19. Explain the types of clouds? (6)
20. Identify and explain the cloud delivery models by analysing the following statements
a) “Provides customers with high level of control and responsibility” (5)
b) Usage and usage related configuration control is granted to customers. (5)
c) Reduce the burden of setting and maintaining infrastructure (5)
Module-2
1. List and discuss various types of virtualization? (8)
2. Differentiate between full virtualization and paravirtualization. (6)
3. What is virtualization and what are its benefits? (4)
4. Explain why a hypervisor is also called virtual machine monitor? (4)
5. What is the role of VMM in virtualization? How does virtualization can be implemented in
hardware level? (6)
6. What is a hypervisor? Explain the different types of hypervisors? (5)
7. Explain the design requirements of VMM? (5)
8. What are the advantages and disadvantages of virtualization? Which level of virtualization is
suited for hosting applications? Substantiate your answer. (7)
9. Why is virtualization important? Describe the characteristics of server virtualization and
application virtualization?(5)
10. Compare the following
a) Virtualized and non virtualized environments (4)
b) System and process VM’s (4)
11. Explain the bare metal and hosted approaches in virtualization with diagrams? (8)
12. Write short note on a) Xen b) VMware (10)
13. Explain operating system level virtualization? (6)
14. How are physical computing systems virtualized? (4)
15. Write short note on desktop and storage virtualization? (5)
