Cloud Computing (CS-802 (B)) - Important Questions

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

Explain the role of SOAP, WSDL and UDDI (and XML) in Web Service communication and integration.

Explain the SaaS and PaaS cloud service models and discuss their significance in cloud computing.

Examine the architecture and working principles of a hypervisor in virtualization and cloud computing environments.

Explain Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and how it supports cloud computing.

Define cloud computing and explain its essential characteristics.

How are different service deployment model works? Explain.

Explain the terms: cloud monitoring system, hypervisor, and WSDL.

Draw a layered diagram showing how IaaS, PaaS and SaaS clouds are built from bare hardware to user applications.

Write a short note on WSDL / Ajax / Cloud middleware / Sky computing.

Explain the elements of UDDI in detail.

Discuss the different types of hypervisors with examples.

What is virtualization technology and why/how are virtual machines and virtual clusters used in cloud environments?

Describe the working principles of asynchronous communication and explain the role of Ajax in interactive web application environments.

Explain elastic computing. Differentiate between traditional computing systems and elastic cloud computing systems with example.

Explain the challenges and pitfalls of virtualization in cloud computing.

Explain the multi-schema approach in cloud databases.

Explain the need for cloud mashups in cloud computing and explain VMware and vSphere machine imaging.

Answer the following:

What virtualization support is needed for fast cloning of VMs and how does VM cloning enable fast recovery?

What are hardware virtualization techniques and what are the benefits of virtualization?

Write short note on multitenant techniques / virtualized data center concepts.

Explain the risks arising from multi-tenancy in various cloud environments.

Discuss in detail cloud mashups with user interface.

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

Explain Google File System (GFS) and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and their role in cloud storage

Explain enterprise batch processing and its benefits from the Map-Reduce model

Define cloud data management and discuss the role of relational databases in cloud computing systems.

Discuss the importance of data storage solutions like BigTable and HBase in cloud computing.

Compare GFS and HDFS, and differentiate data store vs simple database.

Explain why BigTable is known as a distributed storage system.

Summarize the parallelism for single machine computation.

What is Bigtable and describe the architecture of Google File System

Describe relational database and compare GFS and HDFS.

Take a suitable example and the concept of Map Reduce.

Enlist and explain the features of HDFS

Explain virtual threats and VM-specific security techniques / secure execution environments

Describe/explain various vulnerability assessment tools for cloud computing and their significance in identifying security weaknesses in cloud infrastructures.

Explain cloud security reference architecture with diagram, including the role of authentication, authorization and encryption mechanisms.

Analyze general security issues in cloud computing systems including data leakage, unauthorized access and insider attacks.

Explain the different security challenges in cloud computing.

Explain the fundamental principles of cloud security.

What are the key security recommendations for securing virtual machines (VMs)?.

Explain Data Access control for enterprise application in cloud.

Explain how an organization handles identified security challenges that have no mitigation strategies.

What is trusted cloud computing? Explain.

What do you understand by Secure Communication in Cloud? How it is achieved?

Describe the top threats to cloud computing identified by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).

Explain monitoring mechanisms in cloud computing and how they help ensure optimal performance, including performance evaluation and fault management.

Describe data migration techniques in cloud computing and their applications in distributed enterprise environments.

Analyze QoS parameters such as response time, throughput, latency and availability in cloud environments.

Discuss the challenges associated with data migration in cloud computing.

How does streaming technology work in cloud-based applications?

What is Sky Computing and how does it differ from traditional cloud computing?

Discuss resource dynamic reconfiguration and its impact on cloud efficiency.

Explain how cloud computing is used for real-time applications.

What are the major inter-cloud issues faced by enterprises?

Provide a case study on cloud resource optimization and load balancing techniques.

Explain the importance of QoS and discuss QoS issues in cloud computing.

How does a cloud environment balances the work load?