Cloud Computing

Question Bank
1. Define Cloud computing, Enlist and explain essential characteristics of cloud computing.
2. Classify and explain different deployment models of cloud computing
3. Explain the basic cloud infrastructure with diagram.
4. Classify and explain service models of cloud computing.
5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Cloud computing?
6. What is the difference between cloud computing and grid computing?
7. What is scalability? What is the difference between horizontal and vertical scaling?
8. What is the difference between Scalability and elasticity?
9. List and explain different cloud computing security challenges.
10. What is SLA? Specify different parameters of SLA in cloud computing.
11. Explain Jericho Forum’s Cloud cube model with diagram.
12. Explain the services provided by the Amazon infrastructure cloud from a user perspective.
13. What is IssS?
14. What is storage as a service? Differentiate between traditional storage and storage cloud.
15. What is virtual machine and machine image?
16. Explain the concept of load balancing in cloud data center with diagram.
17. What is platform-as-a –service? Write in detail about Google app engine.
18. What is virtualization? Explain different types of Hypervisor in details.
19. What is the difference between Bare metal approach and Hosted approach in terms of hypervisor
implementation process?
20. What is Type-1 and Type-2 Hypervisor?
21. Explain pods, aggregation and silos in cloud environment.
22. Explain the concept of capacity planning in cloud environment.
23. What is Service Oriented Architecture?
24. Explain “multi-tenancy” in the context of SaaS. Mention three characteristics of SaaS solution.
25. Explain the concept of IaaS and SaaS with diagram and example.
26. Explain cloud platform.
27. What is identity? What is CaaS?
28. Explain about Amazon cloud.
29. Describe VMotion, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and vNetwork Distributed witch
(DVS).
30. What is virtualization? Compare Process level and System level virtualization.
31. What are the benefits of Google AdWords to the advertiser? What is CPC in context of
AdWords?
32. What are the functions of Google Analytics? How does it work for the user?
33. Benefits of Virtualization. Amazon Machine Image (AMI) use both type of virtualization
Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM) as well as Para-Virtualization (PV). Mention the respective
situations in which AMI’s can use PV or HVM.
34. Describe Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 and EBS (Elastic Block Storage).
35. What is Google APIs? What is google App engine do? Mention any two services provided by it.
36. Short Notes:
a. Google Cloud
b. Windows Azure Platform.
c. Amazon EC2.
d. REST in Web Service
e. Identity as a Service (IDaaS).
f. Google App Engine.
 g. Communication as a Service
h. Amazon AWS
i. VMM
j. Google GWT
37. What is load balancing in cloud? Explain it. Why it is important?
38. What is ADC? (Application Delivery Controller)
39. What is VMware and vSpehere?
40. What is dark web?
41. What is indexed search in google based cloud?
42. What is Google tool kit?
43. What are the main elements of Windows Azure?
44. Explain life cycle management of cloud service. Draw diagram of CSA cloud reference model
with security boundaries.
45. Describe cloud security model.
46. What are the features of Network Management System? What are the security concerns of cloud?
47. What is the importance of auditing and compliance in cloud?
48. What are the identity control protocols?
49. Explain SOA architecture with diagram.
50. What is event driven SOA?
51. What is Enterprise Service Bus in cloud? Explain features of ESB.