NARULA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

An Autonomous Institute under MAKAUT

B. TECH/CSE/ODD/7TH SEM/R_18/ CS703A/2022-2023

YEAR: 2022
CLOUD COMPUTING
CS703A
TIME ALLOTTED: 3 HOURS FULL MARKS: 70
The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable
GROUP – A
(Multiple Choice Type Questions)
1. Answer any ten from the following, choosing the correct alternative of each question: 10×1=10
SL Question Marks Co Blooms
Taxonomy
Level
(i) Which of the following are the features of 1 1 Analyze
cloud computing?
a) Security
b) Availability
c) Large Network Access
d) All of the mentioned
(ii) Which of the following model attempts to 1 1 Understand
categorize a cloud network based on four
dimensional factors?
a) Cloud Cube
b) Cloud Square
c) Cloud Service
d) All of the mentioned
(iii) The technology used to distribute service 1 1 Apply
requests to resources is referred to as
_____________
a) load performing
b) load scheduling
c) load balancing
d) all of the mentioned
(iv) Which of the following is one of the unique 1 1 Understand
attributes of Cloud Computing?
a) utility type of delivery
b) elasticity
c) low barrier to entry
d) all of the mentioned

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(v) An operating system running on a Type 1 2 Apply

______ VM is full virtualization.
a) 2
b) 1
c) 3
d) All of the mentioned
(vi) In a ____________ scheme, the VM is 1 2 Apply
installed as a Type 1 Hypervisor directly
onto the hardware.
a) paravirtualization
b) full virtualization
c) emulation
d) none of the mentioned
(vii) Which of the following resource(s) 1 2 Understand
represents the bottleneck in the current
system that limits the system’s performance?
a) ROM
b) Resource ceiling
c) Resource Parameters
d) All of the mentioned
(viii) Which of the following google product sends 1 5 Understand
you periodic email alerts based on your
search term?
a) Alerts
b) Blogger
c) Calendar
d) All of the mentioned
(ix) Which of the following is a billing and 1 5 Understand
account management service?
a) Amazon Elastic MapReduce
b) Amazon Mechanical Turk
c) Amazon DevPay
d) Multi-Factor Authentication
(x) Which of the following is built on top of a 1 5 Understand
Hadoop framework using the Elastic
Compute Cloud?
a) Amazon Elastic MapReduce
b) Amazon Mechanical Turk
c) Amazon DevPay
d) Multi-Factor Authentication
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(xi) In _______ the virtual machine simulates 1 2 Apply

hardware, so it can be independent of the
underlying system hardware.
a) paravirtualization
b) full virtualization
c) emulation
d) none of the mentioned
(xii) _________ is a cloud computing service 1 1 Apply
model in which hardware is virtualized in the
cloud.
a) IaaS
b) CaaS
c) PaaS
d) None of the mentioned
GROUP – B
(Short Answer Type Questions)
(Answer any three of the following) 3 x 5 = 15
2. What is scalability? What is the difference 5 1 Apply
between horizontal and vertical scaling?
3. What is storage as a service? Differentiate 5 1 Understand
between traditional storage and storage
cloud.
4. What is Type-1 and Type-2 Hypervisor? 5 2 Understand
5. Explain the services provided by the 5 5 Understand
Amazon infrastructure cloud from a user
perspective.
6. Explain load testing and resource ceiling in 5 3 Understand
cloud computing capacity planning.

GROUP – C
(Long Answer Type Questions)
(Answer any three of the following) 3 x 15 = 45
7. (i) What is virtualization? Explain different 5 2 Apply
types of Hypervisors in details.

(ii) What is platform-as-a –service? Write in 6 1 Understand

detail about Google app engine.

(iii) What is SLA? Specify different parameters 4 4 Understand

of SLA in cloud computing.
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8. (i) Explain the advantages of cloud computing. 6 1 Understand

(ii) Classify and explain different deployment 4 1 Understand

models in cloud computing.

(iii) Explain pods, aggregation and silos in cloud 5 4 Apply

environment.

9. (i) What is Infrastructure-as-a –service? Write 6 5 Understand

in detail about Amazon Elastic Computer
Cloud (EC2).

(ii) What is virtual machine and machine image? 4 2 Understand

(iii) Explain the concept of migration while load 5 2 Apply

balancing in cloud data center.

10. (i) What is load balancing in cloud? Explain it. 5 3 Analyze

Why it is important?

(ii) What is Service Oriented Architecture? 5 3 Analyze

(iii) What is the difference between Bare metal 5 2 Analyze

approach and Hosted approach in terms of
hypervisor implementation process?

11. Write short notes on any three of the 3×5=15 1,2,5 Understand
following:
i) Windows Azure Platform.
ii) VMM.
iii) REST in Web Service.
iv) Software as a Service (SaaS).

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