Panimalar Institute of Technology

Department of Information Technology

CS8791/Cloud Computing
Unit wise Part B & C Important Questions

Unit 1
1. Formulate stage-by-stage evolution of cloud with neat sketch and formulate any three
benefits, drawbacks achieved by it in the banking and insurance sectors. (Or)
Outline the computing platforms and technologies for the development of cloud
computing applications (Or)
Discuss in detail about Roots of Cloud computing technology. AU Nov/Dec 2020,
2021
2. Discuss the underlying parallel and distributed computing principles adopted by
cloud in the IT sector and brief the drawbacks incurred. AU Nov/Dec 2021
3. Explain about various features of Cloud computing with an example (5)
4. Explain Elasticity in cloud and on demand provisioning (8)

Unit 2
5. Explain Service oriented Architecture and its characteristics in detail. (13)
6. Outline the various levels of virtualization with an example for each category. (13)
(AU Nov/Dec 21)
7. Explain the virtualization of CPU, memory and I/O devices. (AU Nov/Dec 2021)
8. Explain in detail web services protocol stack and publish-subscribe models with
respect to web services.
9. Explain different types of virtualization with examples.
10. Write a detailed note on virtualization and its structures or tools and mechanism
11. Explain the different phenomenon that has gained as interest towards virtualization
technologies. (AU Nov/Dec 2020)
12. Write about virtualization support at the OS level and Why at OS Level? List out its
advantages? Discuss Virtualization on Linux or Windows platforms. (AU Nov/Dec
2020)

Unit 3

13. Explain the various layered cloud architectural development design for effective cloud
computing. (AU Nov/Dec 2020)
14. Discuss in detail about NIST cloud architecture?
15. Give the importance of cloud computing and elaborate the different types of services
offered by it. (Nov/Dec 2016, 2017)
16. Outline the various deployment models of cloud with neat sketch and identify which
among them could be applied to formulate cloud structure for a small firm. (AU
Nov/Dec 2020)
17. Describe the Cloud storage and Explain amazon simple storage service (S3) with its
design requirements. (AU Nov/Dec 2021)
18. Demonstrate the architectural design of compute and storage elements. (AU Nov/Dec
2020)
19. Discuss in detail about the challenges of Architectural design in cloud. (Or) Explain
the following challenges in cloud
i. Security
ii. Data lock-in and standardization
iii. Fault tolerance and Disaster recovery (AU Nov/Dec 2020)

Unit 4
20. Explain the stack of six layers of cloud services and their providers.
21. Explain in detail about cloud resource provisioning and its methods.
22. Represent the structure of inter-cloud resource management and explain why two
or more clouds need to interact with each other. Provide an example for the same.
(AU Nov/Dec 2021)
23. What is the purpose of IAM? Describe the functional architecture with an illustration.
(AU Nov/Dec 2021)
24. Write short notes on Data Security/Software as a Service Security/Application
Security (Or) analyse the methods for providing data security and virtual machine
security in cloud. (AU Nov/Dec 2020)
25. Describe the Secure Software Development Life Cycle with neat diagram. (AU
Nov/Dec 2020)
26. Compare and Contrast the Key privacy issues in Cloud and explain the steps to
overcome the issues with necessary examples. (AU Nov/Dec 2020)
27. List out and explain various security standards. .(SAML, OAuth, OpenID,
SSL/TLS).

Unit 5
28. How Mapreduce implemented in Hadoop .(13) (AU Nov/Dec 2021)
29. Explain Hadoop architecture with neat diagram.(13) AU Nov/Dec 2020)
30. What is GAE? Explain GAE Architecture and its functional modules(13) AU Nov/Dec
2020)
31. Write detailed steps to set the google app engine environment for executing any
program of your choice. (AU Nov/Dec 2021)
32. Discuss in detail about GAE applications.(6) AU Nov/Dec 2020)
33. Detail the structure of Openstack and explain each of its components.(13) (AU
Nov/Dec 2021)
34. Discuss the federated services and its applications (5)
35. List the four levels of cloud federation and explain in detail about the four levels of
deration levels AU Nov/Dec 2020)