AL-604 (A) RGPV B.Tech
Cloud Computing (CC)
Previous year papers and the official syllabus are free to read, no account needed.
Previous Year Papers
4 papers, latest Jun 2026
- AL-604 (A) paper, Jun 2026
- AL-604 (A) paper, Dec 2024
- AL-604 (A) paper, May 2024
- AL-604 (A) paper, May 2023
Syllabus, notes and important questions for AL-604 (A)
Syllabus units
Topics as the official RGPV syllabus lists them.
Unit 1 Introduction of Grid and Cloud Computing 13 topics
- Introduction of Grid and Cloud computing
- Characteristics
- Components
- Business and IT perspective
- Cloud services requirements
- Cloud models
- Security in public model
- Public versus private clouds
- Cloud computing platforms: Amazon EC2
- Platform as Service: Google App Engine
- Microsoft Azure
- Utility Computing
- Elastic Computing
Unit 2 Cloud Services 12 topics
- SAAS
- PAAS
- IAAS
- Cloud design and implementation using SOA
- Conceptual cloud model
- Cloud stack
- Computing on demand
- Information life cycle management
- Cloud analytics
- Information security
- Virtual desktop infrastructure
- Storage cloud
Unit 3 Virtualization Technology 11 topics
- Definition
- Benefits
- Sensor virtualization
- HVM
- Study of hypervisor
- Logical partitioning (LPAR)
- Storage virtualization
- SAN
- NAS
- Cloud server virtualization
- Virtualized data center
Unit 4 Cloud Security Fundamentals 14 topics
- Cloud security fundamentals
- Vulnerability assessment tool for cloud
- Privacy and security in cloud
- Cloud computing security architecture: Architectural considerations – general issues
- Trusted cloud computing
- Secure execution environments and communications
- Microarchitectures
- Identity management and access control – identity management
- Access control
- Autonomic security
- Cloud computing security challenges – virtualization security management and virtual threats
- VM security recommendations
- VM-specific security techniques
- Secure execution environments and communications in cloud
Unit 5 SOA and Cloud 21 topics
- SOA and cloud
- SOA and IAAS
- Cloud infrastructure benchmarks
- OLAP
- Business intelligence
- e-Business
- ISV
- Cloud performance monitoring commands
- Issues in cloud computing
- QoS issues in cloud
- Mobile cloud computing
- Inter‑cloud issues
- Sky computing
- Cloud Computing Platform
- Xen Cloud Platform
- Eucalyptus
- OpenNebula
- Nimbus
- TPlatform
- Apache Virtual Computing Lab (VCL)
- Anomaly Elastic Computing Platform
Exam insights
Counted from 4 past AL-604 (A) papers.
Marks asked per paper, by unit
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Unit 1 Introduction of Grid and Cloud computing 24 marks
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Unit 2 Cloud services- SAAS, PAAS, IAAS 21 marks
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Unit 3 Virtualization technology 21 marks
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Unit 4 Cloud security fundamentals 19 marks
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Unit 5 SOA and cloud 23 marks
Average marks of the questions from each unit in one paper. You answer only some of them, so the total is more than the paper’s maximum.
Asked again and again
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Explain cloud deployment models, including Public Cloud vs Private Cloud
Asked 3 times: 2026, 2024, 2023
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Explain the SaaS, PaaS and IaaS cloud service models with suitable examples and their differences.
Asked 3 times: 2026, 2024, 2023
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Explain cloud virtualization/VM security risks and challenges and describe VM-specific security techniques and best practices for securing VMs.
Asked 3 times: 2026, 2024, 2023