COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING KIDANGOOR

EIGHTH SEMESTER B.TECH DEGREE EXAMINATION, JUNE 2021

Course Code:CS468
Course Name: Cloud Computing

Max Marks:70 Duration: 2.15 Hours

PART A
(Answer all questions, each carries 3 marks)
1. Explain the major roles of hypervisor in virtualization.
2. Differentiate between monolithic hypervisor and microkernel hypervisor with
examples.
3. What do you mean by an Overlay Network? Explain with the help of a diagram.
4. How a virtual machine is created and managed?
5. Describe the read and write operations in HDFS.
6. Illustrate the advantages of Iterative MapReduce with the help of a diagram.
7. Discuss the need of Risk Management and Risk Assessment in cloud.
8. How does the application security is achieved in cloud?
9. Explain the advantages of online scheduling applications using any two
examples.
10. What are the benefits of web-based spreadsheets over the traditional
spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel? Explain any two web-based
spreadsheets.

PART B
(Answer any two full questions, each carries 6 marks.)
11. a) Describe the concept of memory virtualization with a neat diagram. (2)
b) Compare and contrast Full-Virtualization with Para-Virtualization with the help of
diagrams. (4)
12. a) State the significance of PaaS and SaaS service models with suitable cloud
services (4)
 b) Explain briefly about Grid Computing infrastructures. (2)
13.a) Differentiate between Native VM and Hosted VM architectures with diagrams. (3)
b) Identify Public, Private and Hybrid cloud deployment models with examples. (3)

PART C
(Answer any two full questions, each carries 6 marks)
14.a) Explain the various modules of GAE architecture with the help of a diagram. (3)
b) Compare and contrast the various dynamic resource provisioning policies in cloud.
(3)
15. a) What are the major functions of MapReduce framework? Explain the logical
dataflow of MapReduce function using an example. (3)
b) Justify the need of NOSQL system in cloud. Discuss the BigTable system structure
with the help of a web table. (3)
16. a) How Amazon EC2 provides load balancing? Explain AWS architecture with
a neat diagram. (4)
b) Explain the running of a job in Hadoop with a diagram. (2)

PART D
(Answer any two full questions, each carries 8 marks)
17 a) What do you mean by Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SecSDLC). (4)
b) Discuss the Gartner’s seven security issues which one should discuss with a cloud
computing vendor. (4)
18. a) How an online database works? Write a note on any two online database
services. (4)
b) How can you make the project management easier by the help of web-based
project management applications? Explain with any two examples. (4)
19.a) Identify and explain the major security challenges in cloud? (4)
b) Describe any three examples for Online Calendar applications (4)

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