Seat No.: ________ Enrolment No.

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GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

BE - SEMESTER–VII (NEW) EXAMINATION – WINTER 2022
Subject Code:3170717 Date:10-01-2023
Subject Name:Cloud Computing
Time:10:30 AM TO 01:00 PM Total Marks:70
Instructions:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
3. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
4. Simple and non-programmable scientific calculators are allowed.
MARKS
Q.1 (a) Explain the following terms: 03
1) Hardware Virtualization 2) Multi-Tenant 3) Autonomic Computing
(b) What do you mean by High Availability and Dynamic Resource 04
Allocation features in cloud computing?
(c) Explain Grid computing and Utility computing. 07

Q.2 (a) Justify the statement, “SaaS integration is hard”. 03

(b) Describe PaaS Application framework in detail. 04
(c) Explain types of clouds based on deployment models with its relevant 07
use case.
OR
(c) Explain IaaS technology in cloud computing with a real-world 07
example.

Q.3 (a) Explain in brief about application porting in cloud. 03

(b) Explain about virtualization in context of data center automation. 04
(c) Describe various types of hypervisor and mention pros and cons of 07
each.
OR
Q.3 (a) Explain in brief about the load balancing in cloud computing. 03
(b) Draw and explain layered virtualization technology architecture. 04
(c) Explain the following virtual machine migration services in detail. 07
i) Hot migration
ii) Cold migration

Q.4 (a) Enlist the features of cloud management products. 03

(b) Write a short note on emerging cloud management standards. 04
(c) Discuss about identity management and access control in cloud 07
computing.
OR
Q.4 (a) Enlist the design challenges of cloud infrastructure and resource 03
management.
(b) Explain the architectural design of compute and storage clouds. 04
(c) What is cloud resource management? Explain inter cloud resource 07
management with its challenges.

Q.5 (a) Explain service level agreement (SLA) in cloud computing with 03
example.
(b) Write a short note on data security and application security. 04
(c) Discuss Eucalyptus cloud middleware along with its architecture. 07

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Q.5 (a) Explain in brief about the services provided by Microsoft Azure cloud. 03
(b) Write a short note on disaster recovery in cloud computing. 04
(c) Discuss Open Stack cloud middleware along with its architecture. 07

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Seat No.: ________ Enrolment No.___________

GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

BE - SEMESTER–VII (NEW) EXAMINATION – SUMMER 2022
Subject Code:3170717 Date:08/06/2022
Subject Name:Cloud Computing
Time:02:30 PM TO 05:00 PM Total Marks: 70
Instructions:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
3. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
4. Simple and non-programmable scientific calculators are allowed.

Q.1 (a) Define load balancing. What is need of loan balancing in cloud 03
computing?
(b) What are the challenges to data security in cloud? 04
(c) How machine Imaging help to achieve the goal of cloud computing? 07

Q.2 (a) What are Hypervisors? List it’s importance. 03

(b) What is Eucalyptus? Explain in brief. 04
(c) How AWS Billing mechanism works? 07
OR
(c) Explain SAAS with an example? 07

Q.3 (a) What is SOAP and REST web services? 03

(b) Elaborate Securing Data. 04
(c) Explain Elastic Load Balancer. 07
OR
Q.3 (a) What is SOAP? Explain in brief. 03
(b) Explain Physical versus Virtual Clusters 04
(c) Explain Amazon S3? Explain Amazon S3 API? What are the 07
operations we can execute through API?

Q.4 (a) Give A Brief Introduction to Windows Azure Operating 03

System.
(b) How would you secure data for transport in the cloud? 04
(c) Mention working mechanism of AWS Cloud Trail with its 07
benefits.
OR
Q.4 (a) Explain the difference between cloud and traditional data 03
centers.
(b) What are the cons of cloud computing? 04
(c) What is Amazon Glacier? How does it work? Differentiate 07
Glacier and S3.

Q.5 (a) Define cloud computing and state it’s desirable features 03
(b) Write a note on AWS API Security. 04
(c) How AWS deals with Disaster recovery? 07
OR
Q.5 (a) Mention benefits of cloud computing technology. 03
(b) Write a note on AWS Ecosystem. 04

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(c) What technology services does Amazon provide? What are the 07
business advantages to Amazon and to subscribers of these
services? What are the disadvantages of each? What kinds of
businesses are likely to benefit from these services?

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Seat No.: ________ Enrolment No.___________

GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

BE - SEMESTER–VII (NEW) EXAMINATION – WINTER 2021
Subject Code:3170717 Date:15/12/2021
Subject Name:Cloud Computing
Time:10:30 AM TO 01:00 PM Total Marks: 70
Instructions:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
3. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
4. Simple and non-programmable scientific calculators are allowed.

MARKS

Q.1 (a) Explain Challenges and Applications of Cloud computing. 03

(b) What are the advantage of Virtualization using in cloud computing? 04
(c) Explain various layers of Cloud Computing. 07

Q.2 (a) Difference between public and private cloud. 03

(b) What are the services provide by SaaS? 04
(c) What are the benefits of “Platform As a service”(PaaS)? Explain with 07
example.
OR
(c) Describe Virtual Machine Migration Services. 07
Q.3 (a) Write a short note on Load Balancing. 03
(b) Explain Hyper Visor. 04
(c) Describe how Virtualization helps to manage Data Center. 07
OR
Q.3 (a) Explain Virtual Clusters. 03
(b) Define Porting Applications of virtualization. 04
(c) Elaborate CPU virtualization with example. 07
Q.4 (a) Explain Billing and Metering Services. 03
(b) Outline the characteristics of server virtualization and application 04
virtualization.
(c) Explain how to manage Inter Cloud Resource Management. 07
OR
Q.4 (a) Explain Digital Signatures. 03
(b) List down the Emerging Cloud Management Standards. 04
(c) Enlist the services that are provided by Azure Cloud. 07

Q.5 (a) What are the basic Issues of Securing the Cloud? 03
(b) Explain Autonomic Security Storage Area Networks. 04
(c) Describe the Google AppEngine Architecture and core concepts. 07
OR
Q.5 (a) List out various Challenges for Cloud Security. 03
(b) Write a short note on Identity Management and Access Control. 04
(c) Explain how to perform Disaster Recovery in Clouds? 07

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