NPTEL Cloud Computing Assignment-Week 1 PDF

​ NPTEL Online Certification Courses Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Cloud Computing Assignment-Week 1 TYPE OF QUESTION: MCQ/MSQ Number of questions:...

​ NPTEL Online Certification Courses Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Cloud Computing Assignment-Week 1 TYPE OF QUESTION: MCQ/MSQ Number of questions: 10 Total mark: 10 X 1 = 10 QUESTION 1: Which of the following fall(s) under the “essential characteristics” of cloud computing? L A. Resource Pooling B. Measured Service E C. Rapid Elasticity D. Latency T Correct Answer: A,B,C P Detailed Solution: cloud computing is a model for on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can provide rapid elasticity. It provides automatic control N and optimizes resource use by leveraging a metering capability. QUESTION 2: “Google Doc” is an example of A. PaaS B. IaaS C. SaaS D. FaaS Correct Answer: C Detailed Solution: Google Slide is a provider’s application that runs on Google Cloud. The application can be accessed from various client terminals through a client interface, say a web browser. So, It is a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. QUESTION 3: Business-Process-as-a-Service is not a part of XaaS. A) True B) False Correct Answer: B Detailed Solution: Business-Process-as-a-Service is a part of XaaS (Anything-as-a-Service).  ​ NPTEL Online Certification Courses ​ Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur mechanisms to avoid single points of failure. QUESTION 4: Network Function Virtualization involves the implementation of _______ function in software that can run on a range of industry-standard servers ______________. A. network,software B. hardware, software L C. hardware, network D. network,hardware E Correct Answer: D T Detailed Solution: Network Function Virtualization involves the implementation of network P function in software that can run on a range of industry-standard servers hardware. QUESTION 5: A) Billing software B) CRM C) App engines D) None of above N Which are the following applications for SaaS (Software as a Service) architecture? Correct Answer: A,B Detailed Solution: SaaS is useful for Billing and CRM software. PassS is useful for app engines. QUESTION 6: Web access to commercial software is one of the SaaS characteristics in the cloud computing paradigm. A. True B. False Correct Answer: A Detailed Solution: Web access to commercial software is one of the SaaS characteristics in the cloud computing paradigm.  ​ NPTEL Online Certification Courses ​ Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur QUESTION 7: In the case of the client-server model: Statement (i) Virtualization is a core concept; Statement (ii) system can scale infinitely A) Only Statement (i) is correct B) Only Statement (ii) is correct C) Both Statements (i) and (ii) are correct D) None of the statements is correct Correct Answer: D L Detailed Solution: In the case of the client-server model: there is no concept of virtualization; the system can scale up to a certain extent. QUESTION 8: PTE Client-server model is always load-balanced N A) True B) False Correct Answer: B Detailed Solution: The Client-server model may or may not be load-balanced QUESTION 9: PaaS (Platform as a Service) brings the benefits: (i) Creation of software (ii) Integration of web services and databases A. Only (i) B. Only (ii) C. Both (i) and (ii) D. Neither (i) nor (ii) Correct Answer: C Detailed Solution: PaaS is a computing platform that allows developers to quickly create software or online applications by connecting web services and databases.  ​ NPTEL Online Certification Courses ​ Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur QUESTION 10: Which of the following is false? a) Private cloud is dedicated solely to an organization. b) Community cloud is a composition of public and private cloud. c) Public cloud is available to the general public. d) None of these Correct Answer: b Detailed Solution: Community cloud is shared by several organizations and serves a specific goal. TE L N P  NPTEL Online Certification Courses Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Cloud Computing Assignment-Week 2 TYPE OF QUESTION: MCQ/MSQ Number of questions: 10 Total mark: 10 X 1 = 10 QUESTION 1: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) possess: a) A service provider, service requestor and service broker b) A service provider and service requestor L c) A service requestor and service broker E d) Only a service broker T Correct Option: A P Detailed Answer: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) possesses: A service provider, service requestor and service broker N QUESTION 2: XML is designed to describe _________. a) pricing b) SLA c) data d) service Correct Option: C Detailed Answer: XML is designed to describe data. QUESTION 3: SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) does not restrict the endpoint implementation technology choices. SOAP is a platform-neutral choice. a) True b) False Correct Option: A Detailed Answer:SOAP does not restrict the endpoint implementation technology choices. SOAP is platform-neutral choice.  NPTEL Online Certification Courses Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur QUESTION 4: A Cyber‐Physical Cloud Computing (CPCC) architectural framework is a ________environment that can rapidly build, modify and provision cyber‐physical systems composed of a set of__________ based sensor, processing, control, and data services. a) system, cloud computing b) cloud computing, system c) system, edge computing d) edge, system computing Correct Answer: A Detailed Solution: A Cyber‐Physical Cloud Computing (CPCC) architectural framework can be L defined as “a system environment that can rapidly build, modify and provision cyber‐physical systems composed of a set of cloud computing based sensor, processing, control, and data E services.” T QUESTION 5: P Network Virtualization is a _________ environment that allows _______ service providers to dynamically compose ____________virtual networks. N a) networking, single, single b) physical, single, multiple c) networking, multiple, single d) networking, multiple, multiple Correct Option: D Detailed Answer: Network Virtualization is a networking environment that allows multiple service providers to dynamically compose multiple virtual networks. QUESTION 6: Customized wearable devices for collecting health parameters are the best examples of a) IoHT b) Fog device c) Fog-Cloud interfaced. d) Cloud-Fog-Edge-IoHT Correct Answer: d Detailed Solution: Customized wearable devices for collecting health parameters are the best examples of Cloud-Fog-Edge-IoHT.  NPTEL Online Certification Courses Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur QUESTION 7: Dew Computing is a paradigm where on-premises computers provide functionality that is _________ of cloud services and is also collaborative with cloud services a) dependant b) independent c) partial dependant d) none of these Correct Option: B Detailed Solution: According to the definition given, dew computing is a paradigm where on-premises computers provide functionality that is independent of cloud services and is also L collaborative with cloud services. E QUESTION 8: T SOAP uses ______ as transport protocol P a) UDDI b) SLA N c) HTTP d) XML Correct Answer: c Detailed Solution: SOAP uses HTTP as transport protocol. QUESTION 9: Virtual Machine Monitor is also known as a) Cluster Manager b) Virtual Machine Handler c) Virtual Machine Manager d) Hypervisor Correct Option: D Detailed Answer: The hypervisor is also known as Virtual Machine Monitor QUESTION 10: Which of the following is/are XML parser API(s)? a) XaaS (Anything as a Model) b) SAX (Simple API to XML) c) CLI (Command Line Interface) d) DOM (Document Object Model)  NPTEL Online Certification Courses Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Correct Option: B, D Detailed Answer: DOM and SAX are two of the three generic parser APIs. They read XML data, check for syntax, and make data available to an application. TE L N P  ​ NPTEL Online Certification Courses Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Cloud Computing Assignment-Week 3 TYPE OF QUESTION: MCQ/MSQ Number of questions: 10 Total mark: 10 X 1 = 10 QUESTION 1: Which of the following statement(s) regarding OpenStack storage is/are right? A. Object storage is managed by Cinder B. Both ephemeral storage and block storage are accessible from within VM L C. Block storage persists until VM is terminated E D. Ephemeral storage is used to run operating system and/or scratch space T Correct Option: B,D P Detailed Answer: Object storage is managed by Swift. Block storage persists until specifically N deleted by the user. Thus, statements A and C are false. QUESTION 2: A task takes time T in a uniprocessor system. In a parallel implementation, the task runs on P processors parallelly. The parallel efficiency is Eff, where 0