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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 virtual threats and VM-specific security techniques for secure execution environments.

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

Write short notes on any two of the following: (i) Inter-cloud issues faced by enterprises (ii) Mobile Cloud Computing (iii) Cloud resource optimization and load balancing techniques.