Cloud Computing

Assignment-Week 1
QUESTION 1:
1.Which of the following is a common property of distributed computing?
A) Centralized control
B) Fault tolerance
C) Single point of failure
D) Limited scalability
Correct Answer: B
Detailed Solution: Distributed systems are designed to be resilient, incorporating fault tolerance
mechanisms to avoid single points of failure.
2.peer-to-Peer computing resembles truly distributed applications.
A) True
B) False
Correct Answer: A
Detailed Solution: Refer to slide-13 of Week-1 (Distributed applications)

3.Which of the following application(s) uses grid computing?

A) Reactor Applications
B) Air conditioning
C) Crystallography
D) Steganography
Correct Answer: A and C

4.Which of the following is(are) a key component(s) of cluster computing?

A) Parallel programming environment
B) Single central processing unit
C) Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP)
D) Node affinity
Correct Answer: A, and C
Detailed Solution: A cluster is a type of parallel or distributed computing platform consisting of
collection of interconnected stand-alone computing computers working together in a single
integrated computing resource. So, key components of stand-alone computers may be PC
workstations or SMPs, operating systems, hyper-performance interconnects middleware, parallel
programming environment and applications.
5.Utility computing is a _______________ model, in which a service provider makes computing
resources and _____________ available to the customer.
A) service-provisioning, infrastructure management
B) infrastructure management,service-provisioning
C) cloud computing, resource management
D) service-provisioning, resource management
Correct Answer: A
6.Utility computing encapsulates the following characteristic(s)
A) Mobility amalgamation
B) Pay-per-use pricing business model
C) No impact on resource utilization
D) None of above
Correct Answer: B
7.In utility computing, the payment model differs for different customers based on scale and
payment frequency alone.
A) True
B) False
Correct Answer: B
8.What are the different characteristic(s) of cloud computing?
A) Virtualization
B) Service disagreement
C) Service orientated
D) Scalability
Correct Answer: A, C and D
9.Google Spreadsheet is an example of :
A) Platform as a Service or PaaS
B) Software as a Service or SaaS
C) Function as a Service of FaaS
D) Infrastructure as a Service or Iaas
Correct Answer: B
10.In the case of the client-server model: Statement (i) Virtualization is a core concept;
Statement (ii)system can scale infinitely
A) Only Statement (i) is correct
B) Only Statement (ii) is correct
C) Both Statements (i) and (ii) are correct
D) None of the statements is correct
11.Public cloud has ____________ and _________ service level agreements(SLAs).
A) loosely coupled, default
B) restrictive, customized
C) customized, default
D) default, restrictive
Correct Answer: D
12.In the XML parser processing model, the parser should not stop processing even if the data is
not well-formed.
A) True
B) False
Correct Answer: B
13.The on-site private cloud's network capacity restricts on-demand bulk data import or export.
A) True
B) False
Correct Answer: A
14.Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) has _______ errors and ________ accuracy.
A) low, medium
B) medium, low
C) high, medium
D) low, high
Correct Answer: D
15.Web services provide capabilities similar to EDI but are ________ expensive to implement.
A) more
B) less
C) not applicable
D) equal
Correct Answer: B
16.In XML, a special ‘xmlsn’ attribute is used to define the namespace.
A) True
B) False
Correct Answer: B
17.Following is(are) example(s) private cloud
A) Amazon VPC
B) Eucalyptus
C) Microsoft Azure
D) Oracle Cloud
Correct Answer: A and B
18.What is(are) goal(s) for a virtual machine architecture?
A) Equivalence
B) Resource control
C) Efficiency
D) None of these
Correct Answer: A, B and C
19.Within a cluster manager, _______ manager is connected via high-speed network.
A) grid
B) cloud
C) computer
D) Node
Correct Answer: C
20.Which statement(s) is(are) application to Data Object Storage (DOS) ?
Statement(i) DOS stores user credentials;
Statement(ii)DOS is usually single for a cloud.
A) Only Statement (i) is correct
B) Only Statement (ii) is correct
C) Both Statements (i) and (ii) are correct
D) None of the statements is correct
Correct Answer: C
21.In the context of aggregated demand in resource provisioning in the cloud, how does adding
n independent demands affect the coefficient of variation (Cv)?
A) Increases the Cv
B) Decreases the Cv
C) Does not change the Cv
D) Inversely proportional to the mean
Correct Answer: B
22.What does the term "biasness towards vendors" imply in the context of SLA monitoring?
A) Vendor-driven selection of monitoring parameters
B) Customer-driven selection of monitoring parameters
C) Balanced approach in monitoring parameters
D) Lack of active monitoring on the customer's side
Correct Answer: A
23.In the Openstack storage concept, ______ storage persists until the VM is terminated and is
managed by _______.
A) Nova, Cinder
B) Ephemeral, Cinder
C) Cinder, Ephemeral
D) Ephemeral, Nova
Correct Answer: D.
24.What condition makes periodic provisioning acceptable in the presence of linear demand?
A) High resource utilization
B) Non-linear demand
C) Instantaneous demand
D) Flat demand
Correct Answer: D
25.What is(are) the key factor(s) to consider in a hybrid model for utility pricing?
A) Reliability and accessibility
B) Network cost and usage costs
C) Peak to average demand ratio
D) Interoperability overhead to average demand.
Answer: C
QUESTION 6:
What architecture is used in a parallel database for the efficient execution of SQL queries?
A) Shared memory architecture
B) Shared disk architecture
C) Shared nothing architecture
D) Shared cache architecture
Correct Answer: C
Detailed Solution: For shared-nothing architecture in the parallel database, tables are partitioned
and distributed across multiple processing nodes and SQL optimizer handles distributed joins.

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QUESTION 7:
What type of environment benefits from utility pricing?
A) Environments with fixed demand levels
B) Environments with limited resource scalability
C) Environments with variable demand levels
D) Environments with prepaid resource allocation

Correct Answer: C
Detailed Solution: Utility pricing or pay-per-use pricing benefits apply in environments with
variable demand levels.
QUESTION 8:
What is the role of Neutron in the provisioning flow in OpenStack?
A) Fetches information about the whole cluster from the database
B) Publishes a message to the compute queue to trigger VM provisioning
C) Configures IP, gateway, DNS name, and L2 connectivity.
D) Contacts Cinder to get volume data
Correct Answer: C
Detailed Solution: Refer to slide 18 of OpenStack

QUESTION 9:
How does the master node in the Google File System maintain communication with chunk
servers?

A) Command messages
B) Update messages
C) Query messages
D) Heartbeat messages

Correct Answer: D
Detailed Solution: In GFS, master maintains regular communication with chunk servers by
Heartbeat messages

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QUESTION 10:
What does the ‘availability’ metric represent in the monitoring and auditing of SLAs?
A) The speed at which a service responds
B) The percentage of uptime for a service
C) How often the service is available
D) The ability for a resource to grow infinitely

Correct Answer: B
Detailed Solution: Availability is represented as a percentage of uptime for a service
in a given observation period.
QUESTION 1:
In Microsoft Azure, a deployment user is required for FTP and local Git deployment to a web
app.
A) TRUE
B) FALSE
Correct Answer: A
Detailed Solution: A deployment user is required for FTP and local Git deployment to a web app
in
Microsoft Azure.

QUESTION 2:
Azure Web Apps lack scalability.
A) TRUE
B) FALSE
Correct Answer: B
Detailed Solution: Azure Web Apps are highly scalable, self-patching web hosting services.
Therefore, the
statement is false.

QUESTION 3:
Match the Google Cloud Platform services with their respective domain (compute, storage or
app services).

Column I Column II
1. BigQuery
2. App Engine
3. Cloud SQL

I. Compute
II. App Services
III. Storage

a. 1 => II, 2 => III, 3 => I

b. 1 => II, 2 => I, 3 => III
c. 1 => III, 2 => I, 3 => II
d. 1 => I, 2 => III, 3 => II

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Correct Answer: B
Detailed Solution: In Google Cloud Platform (GCP), BigQuery is used as an app service, App
Engine is
used as a compute service and Cloud SQL provides storage service.
QUESTION 4:
Which of the following is/are App services provided by Google Cloud Platform?
A) Cloud Endpoints
B) Google App Engine
C) Cloud SQL
D) BigQuery
Correct Answer: A, D
Detailed Solution: Cloud Endpoints and BigQuery are App services provided by Google Cloud
Platform.

QUESTION 5:
Identify the correct statement(s) about Google Cloud Platform(GCP) storage.
A) Cloud SQL is Google's fully managed, petabyte scale, low cost analytics data warehouse to
find
meaningful insights.
B) MySQL or NoSQL databases are present in Google DataStore
C) BigQuery maintains, manages, and administers relational databases on Google Cloud
Platform
D) Cloud Storage provides flexible object storage with global edge caching
Correct Answer: B, D
Detailed Solution: Cloud SQL maintains, manages, and administers relational databases on
Google Cloud
Platform. We get MySQL or NoSQL databases in Google DataStore. BigQuery is Google's fully
managed,
petabyte scale, low cost analytics data warehouse to find meaningful insights. Cloud Storage
provides
flexible object storage with global edge caching. So, the correct options are (b) and (d).

QUESTION 6:
At the time of deployment of an app in Azure, the system asks for a password. The password
used to login to
the Azure portal should be entered.
A) True
B) False
Correct Answer: B
Detailed Solution: The user should make sure to enter the password created in “Configure a
deployment

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user”, not the password used to log in to the Azure portal.

QUESTION 7:
Google APIs help to:
A) migrate the web app to Google Cloud Platform.
B) scale up the app according to the demand/ service requests.
C) provide flexible object storage with global edge caching.
D) integrate Google’s services into the application.
Correct Answer: D
Detailed Solution: Google APIs help to integrate Google’s services into the application.

QUESTION 8:
Statement 1: Azure supports public cloud platforms.
Statement 2: Azure App Service plan defines security.
A) Statement 1 is True and Statement 2 is False
B) Statement 1 is False and Statement 2 is True
C) Both statements are True
D) Both statements are False
Correct Answer: A
Detailed Solution: Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's public cloud computing platform. Azure App
Service
Plan is the container for hosting Web Apps, API Apps, Mobile Apps and Function Apps.

QUESTION 9:
What core function(s) do(es) Keystone perform in OpenStack?
A) Networking
B) Compute
C) Authentication and Identity service
D) Storage
Correct Answer: C
Detailed Solution: Keystone is an OpenStack service that provides API client authentication,
service
discovery, and distributed multi-tenant authorization by implementing OpenStack’s Identity
API. So, the
correct option is C.
QUESTION 10:

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Identify the incorrect statement(s) on Google App Engine.

A) It is a part of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) “compute” infrastructure

B) It is a part of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) “services” infrastructure
C) While using Google App Engine, we need to worry about patching and maintenance.
D) It is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) component of GCP

Correct Answer: B, C
Detailed Solution: Google App Service is a part of GCP compute infrastructure. It is a Platform
as a
Service (PaaS) component of GCP. Using App Engine, we can just focus on our code and do not
need to worry about patching or maintenance. So, the incorrect options are B and C.