Resource Allocation and Pricing in Cloud Computing Quiz

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What is the primary concern related to tenants in traditional data centers?

  • Poor utilization
  • Communication throughput
  • Locked IP addresses (correct)
  • Lack of agility

Why are subnets generally assigned different IP addresses in traditional data centers?

  • To increase performance uniformity
  • To guarantee location independence (correct)
  • To ensure communication throughput
  • To maintain poor utilization

What is a key advantage of having a tenant's IP address that can be taken anywhere?

  • Improved communication throughput
  • Location-independent addressing (correct)
  • Guaranteed performance uniformity
  • Poor utilization prevention

Why is it challenging to change the IP addresses of live running services in traditional data centers?

<p>The complexity of changing topological locators (C)</p>
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How do traditional data centers suffer from a lack of agility with tenants?

<p>Locked IP addresses to topological locations (A)</p>
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What is a significant benefit of having tenants with IP addresses independent of location?

<p>Location-independent addressing flexibility (C)</p>
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Where is the intelligence placed in a Software Defined Network (SDN)?

<p>In a logically centralized location (A)</p>
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What is the goal of a logically centralized controller in a Software Defined Network?

<p>To simplify widely distributed switching gear (C)</p>
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What does NOX represent in the context of Software Defined Networking (SDN)?

<p>An early SDN controller (B)</p>
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What does the logically centralized controller allow building on top of it in SDN?

<p>Software abstractions (A)</p>
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In SDN, what is used to identify a user's traffic and tag it with an identifier?

<p>A VLAN tag (C)</p>
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What type of interface is provided for the data plane in software-defined networking architectures?

<p>Low-level interface and programmatic interface (A)</p>
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What is the main goal of classifying traffic matrices into 40 categories of clusters?

<p>To detect patterns in traffic matrices over time (B)</p>
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In the context of network design, what is the purpose of a Clos topology?

<p>To provide a richly-connected backbone with non-blocking properties (D)</p>
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What failure characteristic was highlighted after analyzing 300K alarm tickets and 36 million error events?

<p>0.4% of failures resolved in over one day (C)</p>
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What characteristic of VL2 physical topology makes it well-suited for Very Large Backbone networks?

<p>Use of two separate address families (B)</p>
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Why is 'oblivious routing' used in network design based on the text provided?

<p>To adapt to unpredictable traffic patterns efficiently (C)</p>
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What distinguishes the Clos topology from traditional network design approaches like VL2?

<p>Emphasis on scale-out rather than scale-up architecture (C)</p>
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What is the stand-by cost of a VM at the edge node?

<p>$0.03 (B)</p>
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What is the computing cost of a VM at the edge node?

<p>$0.20 (B)</p>
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If the total number of VMs requested by the client at time slot $t=2$ is 100, how many VMs will be allocated from the private cloud?

<p>70 (B)</p>
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What is the unit price of an on-demand instance in the public cloud?

<p>$3.00 (D)</p>
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If the total number of VMs requested by the client at time slot $t=3$ is 200, how many VMs will be available at the edge node at the beginning of the fourth time slot?

<p>180 (C)</p>
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What is the computing cost of the private cloud?

<p>$3.00 (C)</p>
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What is the cost at the edge node for time slot (t = 1)?

<p>$23.46 (A)</p>
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For time slot (t = 2), which type of instance is used in the public cloud?

<p>On-demand instance (A)</p>
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What is the cost at the edge node for time slot (t = 3)?

<p>$19.08 (A)</p>
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What is the objective function for the Long-Term Optimal Resource Allocation problem?

<p>$\sum_{t=1}^T C_t^{pub}$ (C)</p>
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How is the resource allocation problem modeled?

<p>As a Markov Decision Process (MDP) (C)</p>
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For time slot (t = 3), which type of instance is used in the public cloud?

<p>Spot instance (A)</p>
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