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Cloud Computing Questions
The document contains details of 6 teams consisting of students enrolled in a course. It lists the roll numbers, names and surnames of the students assigned to each team. It also provides a list of questions for each team to work on related to topics like cloud computing, distributed systems, virtualization etc.
1. What is the innovative characteristic of cloud computing?
2. Which are the technologies on which cloud computing relies? 3. Provide a brief characterization of a distributed system 4. What is virtualization? 5. What is the major revolution introduced by Web 2.0? Give examples. 6. What is utility computing? 7. Briefly summarize the Cloud Computing Reference Model. 8. What is the major advantage of cloud computing? 9. Briefly summarize the challenges still open in cloud computing. Ch.2 : Team 2
1. What is the difference between parallel and distributed computing?
2. Describe the different levels of parallelism that can be obtained in a computing system. 3. Explain hardware architecture of distributed systems? 4. List the most important software architectural styles. 5. Discuss the message-based communication model. 6. What is SOA? 7. Discuss RPC and how it enables interprocess communication. 8. Explain architectural style of a distributed system? 9. What is a distributed system? What are the components that characterize it? Ch.3 : Team 3
1. What is virtualization and what are its benefits?
2. What are the characteristics of virtualized environments? 3. Discuss classification or taxonomy of virtualization at different levels. 4. Discuss the machine reference model of execution virtualization. 5. What are hardware virtualization techniques? 6. What are the advantages and disadvantages of virtualization? 7. What is Xen? Discuss its elements for virtualization. 8. Discuss the reference model of full virtualization. 9. Explain type-1 and type-2 hypervisors. Ch.4 : Team 4
1. Explain different types of roles of organization/human in cloud computing.
2. What do you mean by organization boundary and trust boundary? 3. List and explain the characteristics of cloud environment. 4. Explain IAAS in detail. 5. Differentiate between IAAS, PAAS and SAAS. 6. How combining cloud delivery models is done in cloud computing? 7. Explain cloud deployment models. 8. Describe the fundamental features of the economic and business model behind cloud computing. 9. List some of the challenges in cloud computing Ch.5 Team 5
1. List and define fundamental security terms in cloud computing
2. Explain different cloud security threat agents. 3. What are the different security threats in cloud environment. 4. Explain the terms : Flawed implementation, Risk Management 5. What is AWS? What types of services does it provide? 6. Describe Amazon EC2 and its types 7. Describe the core components of AppEngine. 8. What is Windows Azure? 9. Discuss the storage services provided by Windows Azure. Ch.6 & 7 Team 6
1. Explain the concept of automated scaling listener and load balancer.
2. Explain the term SLA monitor and Audit monitor 3. Explain pay per use monitor in detail. 4. Explain failover system mechanism. 5. What is resource cluster mechanism? 6. Explain the term : multidevice broker and state management database. 7. Explain remote management system mechanism. 8. What do you mean by resource management mechanism. 9. Explain SLA and billing management mechanism.