15CS565 CLOUD COMPUTING

CLOUD COMPUTING
15CS565
MODULE – I
INTRODUCTION, VIRTUALIZATION (CAPTER 1 & 3)
QUESTION BANK

1. What is Cloud Computing? Explain the vision of Cloud Computing with diagram. 5M
2. Explain how Cloud computing is helping enterprises, governments, public and private
institutions, and research organizations shape more effective and demand-driven computing
systems. 5M
3. Explain the Cloud Computing Reference Model with neat diagram. 5M
4. Cloud computing has some interesting characteristics that bring benefits to both cloud service
consumers (CSCs) and cloud service providers (CSPs). List and Explain these characteristics. 6M
5. Define Distributed Systems. List and Explain the 3 major milestones of distributed systems that
led to the evolution of Cloud Computing. 7M
6. Web is the primary interface through which cloud computing delivers its services. Justify. 6M
7. Explain Service-oriented computing's two important concepts which are fundamental to cloud
computing. 5M
8. Explain Application Development, Infrastructure and system development helpful in building
Cloud Computing environments. 5M
9. List and explain any 4 Cloud computing platforms and technologies. 8M
10. Virtualization technologies have gained renewed interested recently due to the confluence of
several phenomena. Explain these phenomena. 5M
11. Explain the characteristics of virtualized enviroments with a neat diagram. 6M
12. Draw and represent the Taxonomy of virtualization. Explain in brief. 5M
13. With neat diagram explain the Machine Reference Model. Also explain Security Rings. 7M
14. Explain with graphical representation, the two types of hypervisors. 6M
15. List the 3 theorems that Popek and Goldberg provided for the classification of the instruction set
and proposed, in order to support virtualization. 6M
16. Write short notes on a) Programming Language Level Virtualization. 6M
b) Application Level Virtualization.
17. Explain the pros and cons of Virtualization. 6M

Prof. Altaf Husain A. Makandar DEPT. OF CSE, AGMRCET, VARUR