DAIICT – Mid-Semester Examination – Autumn 2021

IT627 – Cloud Computing

MM: 40 Time: 60 mins

Instructions:
1. There are 15 questions in this paper.
2. Q1 to Q10 are multiple choice type. There could be one or more correct answers. You’ll get
marks only if all correct answers are given.
3. Q1 to Q10 are 1 mark each.
4. Marks for rest of the questions are mentioned against them

Q1. When we compare deployment of a web service on premises versus on cloud, which of the
following is true.
a) The lag strategy in on-premises results in customer satisfaction
b) The lead strategy in on premises results in overspending
c) The auto-scaling in cloud reduces long term cost
d) The cloud deployment results in lesser upfront cost
Q1 – Correct answers: b,c,d

Q2. A developer sitting in company office uses his company’s email hosted on cloud for
communication, uses a virtual machine for development work and writes code to connect to Github
to do code commits via its command line interface. Which of the following describe the services
used by developer most appropriately?
a) Email – SaaS, VM – PaaS, GitHub – IaaS
b) Email – PaaS, VM – IaaS, GitHub – PaaS
c) Email – SaaS, VM – IaaS, GitHub – PaaS
d) Email – SaaS, VM – IaaS, GitHub – SaaS
Q2 – Correct answer: d

Q3. In cloud platforms the term polyglot persistence refers to

Q4. To be able to use a blob storage in Azure, one needs to have one each of
a) Azure account, Subscription only
b) Azure account, Subscription, Storage account only
c) Azure account only
d) Subscription, Storage account only
Q4 – Correct answer: b

Q5. When you create a VM in Azure, which of the following get auto created, even if you do not
specify explicitly in command / portal?
a) Virtual Network, Network Interface, Managed Disk, Non-static IP
b) Static IP, NSG, Network Interface, Virtual Network
c) Virtual Network, Network Interface, Static IP, Resource Group
d) Virtual Network, Network Interface, Non-static IP, NSG
Q5 – Correct answers: d

Q6. The SLA of 99.95% of uptime in Azure VMs will hold only if
a) Only one VM is created explicitly with NSG and Availability Set
b) Atleast two VMs are created within same Availability Set
c) Atleast two VMs are created each in its own Availability Set
d) Atleast two VMs are created within same Virtual Network and NSG
Q6 – Correct answer: b

Q7. A web application is to be deployed on IaaS solution in cloud. For setting this up, two VMs C1 &
C2 are to be used as front-end servers, two VMs B1 & B2 are to be used as business logic processing
and two D1 & D2 for setting up the data bases. For high availability, how will you configure them in
Azure? (AvSet => Availability Set)
a) C1,C2 in 1st AvSet; B1,B2 in 2nd AvSet; D1,D2 in 3rd AvSet
b) C1,B1,D1 in 1st AvSet; C2,B2,D2 in 2nd AvSet
c) Every VM in its own AvSet for high availability
d) No AvSet is needed, all VMs should be in one NSG for high availability
Q7 – Correct answers: a

Q8. In IaaS cloud deployment for a web application solution, it is desired that REST requests
containing ‘video’ in path of the URL be directed to a cache-server running on a VM in Web Tier of
the deployment, instead of going to any other VMs in the Web Tier. How would you accomplish this?
a) By using Load Balancer in front of Web Tier
b) By using Application Gateway in front of Web Tier
c) By using Traffic Manager in front of Web Tier
d) By configuring cache-server to respond to URL with ‘video’ in its path
Q8 – Correct answer: b

Q9. The requirement is to store user info for a web site into a NoSQL option. User info contains
name, mobile number, address, and a comma separated list two or more emails. Name of the user
may or may not contain middle name. The sub fields in address could also be varied. Which NoSQL
DB type is most appropriate for this kind of requirement?
a) Key-Value pair table
b) Document DB
c) Wide-column Store
d) Graph Data base
Q9 – Correct answer: c

Q10. In Azure, multi-region deployment will result in storage redundancy of different types. If you
want to redirect GET REST requests to secondary region and remaining requests to primary region,
this can be achieved using which of the following?
a) LRS
b) RA-GRS
c) GRS
d) ZRS
Q10 – Correct answer: b

Q11. Describe role of Application Gateway in reducing code complexity by enabling SSL 4
termination.
Max Word Limit: 700
A11.
• Web traffic load balancer enables us to manage traffic to our web applications
• Operates at application level (OSI level 7 - Application).
• Traditional load balancers operate at transport layer (OSI level 4 – TCP & UDP) and
route traffic based on IP address and port.
• Application Gateway can route traffic based on URL
• SSL termination
• supports terminate encryption at gateway, so data travels un-encrypted to the
backend servers. Saves overhead.
• Web application firewall – protection against common exploits
• Multiple site hosting, Redirection, Session affinity etc.

Q12. You have deployed your application dealing with medical history of individuals in 5
multiple regions – one in US East and one in Central Europe. The GDPR law of Europe
mandates the PII data like medical history cannot go outside of Europe Economic Area (EEA). First
describe various routing methods of Traffic Manager and then specify which one will you chose for
your application deployment above and why?
Max Word Limit: 700

A12.
The Traffic Manager distributes the traffic using the configured routing method
• Priority, Weighted, Performance, Geographic (see more here)
You’ll use Geographic routing for the scenario in question.

Q13. How CouchDB can be used to run websites without having any web servers? 5
Max Word Limit: 700
A13.
See here

Q14. A website needs to be deployed on cloud. The primary use case for this website is to
show pleasing and beautiful pictures/photos of various categories to users. Categories are – 6
Nature, Space, Instruments, Society, Cars, History. The home page is beautifully laid out static
page with some pictures from various categories and upon selection of a category, other pictures are
shown. Though there are other scenarios, but for this question let us limit it to this only – home
page, selection of a category, show pictures as grid.
Describe how would you deploy such static content service website on cloud (assume Azure) using
most appropriate solution.
Max Word Limit: 700
Q15. A website is going to be used by a company for its field agents who will upload large excel
reports from their devices/laptops. These excel files will be processed as batch operations on the
server side. Rest of the website is simple single page app that lets the field agents login and do their
work related activities. Describe an architecture suitable to deploy this type of web
application.
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Max Word Limit: 700