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CS-802 (B) RGPV B.Tech

Cloud Computing (CC)

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Syllabus, notes and important questions for CS-802 (B)

Syllabus units

Topics as the official RGPV syllabus lists them.

Unit 1 Introduction to Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services 13 topics
  • Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  • Web Services
  • Basic Web Services Architecture
  • SOAP
  • WSDL
  • UDDI
  • RESTful services – definition, characteristics, components, types
  • Software as a Service (SaaS)
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS)
  • Organizational scenarios of clouds
  • Administration and monitoring of cloud services
  • Benefits and limitations of cloud services
  • Hypervisor study
Unit 1 notes
Unit 2 Utility Computing, Virtualization and Multitenancy 9 topics
  • Utility Computing
  • Elastic Computing
  • Ajax – asynchronous rich interfaces
  • Mashups – user interface services
  • Virtualization technology and enterprise applications
  • Pitfalls of virtualization
  • Multitenant software – multi‑entity support
  • Multischema approach
  • Multi‑tenancy using cloud data stores
Unit 2 notes
Unit 3 Data Management and MapReduce in the Cloud 12 topics
  • Relational databases in the cloud
  • Cloud file systems – GFS and HDFS
  • Comparison of GFS, HDFS and other file systems
  • BigTable
  • HBase
  • Dynamo
  • MapReduce and extensions
  • Parallel computing with MapReduce
  • Parallel efficiency of MapReduce
  • Relational operations in MapReduce
  • Enterprise batch processing
  • MapReduce applications and examples
Unit 3 notes
Unit 4 Cloud Security and Privacy 11 topics
  • Cloud security fundamentals
  • Vulnerability assessment tools for cloud
  • Privacy and security in cloud computing
  • Cloud computing security architecture
  • General security issues
  • Trusted cloud computing
  • Security challenges – virtualization security management, virtual threats
  • VM security recommendations
  • VM‑specific security techniques
  • Secure execution environments in cloud
  • Secure communications in cloud
Unit 4 notes
Unit 5 Advanced Issues and Cloud Service Platforms 15 topics
  • Issues in cloud computing
  • Real‑time cloud applications
  • Quality of Service (QoS) in cloud
  • Dependability of cloud services
  • Data migration strategies
  • Streaming in cloud
  • Cloud middleware
  • Mobile cloud computing
  • Inter‑cloud issues
  • Agrid of clouds and sky computing
  • Load balancing in cloud
  • Resource optimization and dynamic reconfiguration
  • Monitoring in cloud
  • Installation of cloud platforms and performance evaluation
  • Features and functions of cloud computing platforms
Unit 5 notes
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Exam insights

Counted from 6 past CS-802 (B) papers.

Marks asked per paper, by unit

  • Unit 1 Introduction to Service Oriented Architecture 24 marks
  • Unit 2 Utility Computing 14 marks
  • Unit 3 Data in the cloud 15 marks
  • Unit 4 Cloud security fundamentals 18 marks
  • Unit 5 Issues in cloud computing 22 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

  1. Explain the MapReduce model, its working including shuffling, how it differs from other models, and its applications.

    Asked 3 times: 2024, 2022

  2. Define cloud computing and explain its essential characteristics.

    Asked 3 times: 2023, 2022

  3. Explain the basic architecture of web services including service providers, service requesters and service registries.

    Asked 2 times: 2026, 2025

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