Deck 13: Cloud Computing , Storage, and Service Architecture

Question 1

Cloud computing is a_________    system and it is necessarily unidirectional in nature.

A)stateless
B)stateful
C)reliable
D)all of the mentioned

Answer 1

stateless

Question 2

Which of the following is the most important area of concern in cloud computing?

A)security
B)storage
C)scalability
D)all of the mentioned

Answer 2

security

Question 3

You can't count on a cloud provider maintaining your_________in the face of government actions.

A)scalability
B)reliability
C)privacy
D)none of the mentioned

Answer 3

privacy

Question 4

Which of the following architectural standards is working with cloud computing industry?

A)service-oriented architecture
B)standardized web services
C)web-application frameworks
D)all of the mentioned

Question 5

Which of the following is a message queue or transaction system for distributed Internet- based applications?

A)amazon elastic compute cloud
B)amazon simple queue service
C)amazon simple notification service
D)amazon simple storage system

Question 6

Which of the following is a system for creating block level storage devices that can be used for Amazon Machine Instances in EC2?

A)cloudwatch
B)amazon elastic block store
C)aws import/export
D)all of the mentioned

Question 7

Which of the following metrics are used to support Elastic Load Balancing?

A)cloudwatch
B)amazon elastic block store
C)aws import/export
D)all of the mentioned

Question 8

Which of the following cloud storage is mainly meant for developers and to support applications built using Web services?

A)managed
B)unmanaged
C)disk
D)all of the mentioned

Question 9

Point out the correct statement.

A)cloud storage may be broadly categorized into four major classes of storage
B)in unmanaged storage, the storage service provider makes storage capacity available to users
C)in managed storage, the storage service provider makes storage capacity available to users
D)all of the mentioned

Question 10

Which of the following is the form of unmanaged cloud storage?

A)xdrive
B)omnidrive
C)idrive
D)all of the mentioned

Question 11

Which of the following is an example of an unmanaged storage utility set up to do automated backups?

A)xdrive
B)omnidrive
C)freedrive
D)all of the mentioned

Question 12

Point out the wrong statement.

A)unmanaged storage is reliable
B)managed storage is relatively cheap to use
C)most of the user-based applications that work with cloud storage are of unmanaged type
D)none of the mentioned

Question 13

Which of the following factors led to the demise of many of the early SSPs and to many hosted file services?

A)the dot.com bust in 2000
B)the inability of file-hosting companies to successfully monetize online storage
C)the continued commoditization of large disk drives
D)all of the mentioned

Question 14

Which of the following is the simplest unmanaged cloud storage device?

A)file transfer utility
B)antivirus utility
C)online image utility
D)none of the mentioned

Question 15

The service FreeDrive is storage that allows ___________users to view the content of others.

A)facebook
B)twitter
C)whatsapp
D)none of the mentioned

Question 16

Which of the following file transfer utility creates a shared folder metaphor using a Web service?

A)dropbox
B)skype
C)drive
D)all of the mentioned

Question 17

Which of the following offers Storage size of 10GB free t0 100 GB paid?

A)adrive
B)4shared
C)badongo
D)all of the mentioned

Question 18

Point out the correct statement.

A)describes a standard method for requesting services from distributed components and managing the results
B)soa provides the translation and management layer in an architecture that removes the barrier for a client obtaining desired services
C)with soa, clients and components can be written in different languages and can use multiple messaging protocols
D)all of the mentioned

Question 19

Which of the following is a repeatable task within a business process?

A)service
B)bus
C)methods
D)all of the mentioned

Question 20

Which of the following describes a message-passing taxonomy for a component- based architecture that provides services to clients upon demand?

A)soa
B)ebs
C)gec
D)all of the mentioned

Question 21

Which of the following is used to define the service component that performs the service?

A)wsdl
B)scdl
C)xml
D)none of the mentioned

Question 22

Which of the following is commonly used to describe the service interface, how to bind information, and the nature of the component's service or endpoint?

A)wsdl
B)scdl
C)xml
D)none of the mentioned

Question 23

Which of the following provides commands for defining logic using conditional statements?

A)xml
B)ws-bpel
C)json
D)none of the mentioned

Question 24

Which of the following is used as middleware layer in the following figure?

A)xml
B)esb
C)uddi
D)none of the mentioned

Question 25

To publish a REST service with Spring.

A)publishing an application's data as a rest service
B)accessing data from third-party rest services
C)none of the mentioned
D)all of the mentioned

Question 26

_____________ enables batch processing, which greatly speeds up high-processing applications.

A)scalability
B)reliability
C)elasticity
D)utility

Question 27

A_________    service provider gets the same benefits from a composable system that a user does.

A)caas
B)aaas
C)paas
D)all of the mentioned

Question 28

Point out the correct statement.

A)cloud architecture can couple software running on virtualized hardware in multiple locations to provide an on-demand service
B)cloud computing relies on a set of protocols needed to manage interprocess communications
C)platforms are used to create more complex software
D)all of the mentioned

Question 29

Which of the following is the property of the composable component?

A)stateful
B)stateless
C)symmetric
D)all of the mentioned

Question 30

From the standpoint of a ___________it makes no sense to offer non-standard machine instances to customers.

A)caas
B)aaas
C)paas
D)iaas

Question 31

Point out the wrong statement.

A)a cloud cannot be created within an organization's own infrastructure or outsourced to another datacenter
B)a composable component must be modular
C)a composable component must be stateless
D)none of the mentioned

Question 32

A service provider reselling a_________     may have the option to offer one module to customize the information.

A)caas
B)aaas
C)paas
D)saas

Question 33

Which of the following is the highest degree of integration in cloud computing?

A)caas
B)aaas
C)paas
D)saas

Question 34

Which of the following benefit is provided by the PaaS service provider?

A)a larger pool of qualified developers
B)more reliable operation
C)a logical design methodology
D)all of the mentioned

Question 35

Point out the wrong statement.

A)platforms represent nearly the full cloud software stack
B)a platform in the cloud is a software layer that is used to create higher levels of service
C)platforms often come replete with tools and utilities to aid in application design and deployment
D)none of the mentioned

Question 36

___________  allows different operating systems to run in their own memory space.

A)vgm
B)vmc
C)vmm
D)all of the mentioned

Question 37

Which of the following offers virtual appliances, including ones based on Windows, all of which run on VMware Player?

A)bagvapp
B)jcinacio
C)helpdesklive
D)all of the mentioned

Question 38

___________offers various Linux distributions upon which you can build a virtual machine.

A)bagvapp
B)jcinacio
C)helpdesklive
D)all of the mentioned

Question 39

___________    is a CPU emulator and virtual machine monitor.

A)imaging
B)parallels
C)qemu
D)none of the mentioned

Question 40

Which of the following is storage data interchange interface for stored data objects?

A)occ
B)occi
C)ocmi
D)all of the mentioned

Question 41

Point out the correct statement.

A)to determine whether your application will port successfully, you should perform a functionality mapping exercise
B)cloud computing supports some application features better than others
C)cloud bursting is an overflow solution that clones the application to the cloud and directs traffic to the cloud during times of high traffic
D)all of the mentioned

Question 42

Cloud storage data usage in the year 2020 is estimated to be __________    percent resident by IDC.

A)10
B)15
C)20
D)none of the mentioned

Question 43

Point out the wrong statement.

A)some apis are both exposed as soap and rest
B)the role of a cloud vendor specific api has impact on porting an application
C)there are mainly three types of cloud storage
D)none of the mentioned

Question 44

Which of the following system does not provision storage to most users?

A)paas
B)iaas
C)caas
D)saas

Question 45

The addition of a software package on top of a cloud storage volume makes most cloud storage offerings conform to a ___________as a Service model.

A)software
B)platform
C)analytics
D)none of the mentioned

Question 46

How many categories of storage devices broadly exist in cloud?

A)1
B)2
C)3
D)none of the mentioned

Question 47

Which of the following storage devices exposes its storage to clients as Raw storage that can be partitioned to create volumes?

A)block
B)file
C)disk
D)all of the mentioned

Question 48

Which of the following impose additional overhead on clients and offer faster transfer?

A)block storage
B)file storage
C)file server
D)all of the mentioned

Question 49

Which of the following is an edge-storage or content-delivery system that caches data in different physical locations?

A)amazon relational database service
B)amazon simpledb
C)amazon cloudfront
D)amazon associates web services

Question 50

Which of the following allows you to create instances of the MySQL database to support your Web sites?

A)amazon elastic compute cloud
B)amazon simple queue service
C)amazon relational database service
D)amazon simple storage system

Question 51

Which of the following is essential concept related to Cloud?

A)reliability
B)productivity
C)abstraction
D)all of the mentioned

Question 52

Which of the following cloud concept is related to pooling and sharing of resources?

A)polymorphism
B)abstraction
C)virtualization
D)none of the mentioned

Question 53

___________has many of the characteristics of what is now being called cloud computing.

A)internet
B)softwares
C)web service
D)all of the mentioned

Question 54

Which of the following can be identified as cloud?

A)web applications
B)intranet
C)hadoop
D)all of the mentioned

Question 55

Cloud computing is an abstraction based on the notion of pooling physical resources and presenting them as a ___________resource.

A)real
B)virtual
C)cloud
D)none of the mentioned

Question 56

Which of the following is Cloud Platform by Amazon?

A)azure
B)aws
C)cloudera
D)all of the mentioned

Question 57

__________          is a paradigm of distributed computing to provide the customers on-demand, utility based computing service.

A)remote sensing
B)remote invocation
C)cloud computing
D)private computing

Question 58

Which of the following is not a cloud stakeholder?

A)cloud providers
B)clients
C)end users
D)cloud users

Question 59

These cloud services are of the form of utility computing i.e. the ___________  uses these services pay-as-you-go model.

A)cloud providers
B)clients
C)end users
D)cloud users

Question 60

Which of the following is not a type of cloud?

A)private
B)public
C)protected
D)hybrid

Question 61

In this type of cloud, an organization rents cloud services from cloud providers on- demand basis.

A)private
B)public
C)protected
D)hybrid

Question 62

In this type of cloud, the cloud is composed of multiple internal or external cloud.

A)private
B)public
C)protected
D)hybrid

Question 63

__________    enables the migration of the virtual image from one physical machine to another.

A)visualization
B)virtualization
C)migration
D)virtual transfer

Question 64

Most of the cloud architectures are built on this type of architecture.

A)skeleton
B)grid
C)linear
D)template

Question 65

Saas stands for?

A)software as a service
B)system software and services
C)software as a system
D)system as a service

Question 66

In distributed system, each processor has its own __________

A)local memory
B)clock
C)both local memory and clock
D)none of the mentioned

Question 67

If one site fails in distributed system then

A)the remaining sites can continue operating
B)all the sites will stop working
C)directly connected sites will stop working
D)none of the mentioned

Question 68

Network operating system runs on

A)server
B)every system in the network
C)both server and every system in the network
D)none of the mentioned

Question 69

Which technique is based on compile-time program transformation for accessing remote data in a distributed-memory parallel system?

A)cache coherence scheme
B)computation migration
C)remote procedure call
D)message passing

Question 70

Logical extension of computation migration is __________

A)process migration
B)system migration
C)thread migration
D)data migration

Question 71

Processes on the remote systems are identified by __________

A)host id
B)host name and identifier
C)identifier
D)process id

Question 72

In distributed systems, link and site failure is detected by __________

A)polling
B)handshaking
C)token passing
D)none of the mentioned

Question 73

The capability of a system to adapt the increased service load is called __________

A)scalability
B)tolerance
C)capacity
D)none of the mentioned

Question 74

Internet provides_________    for remote login.

A)telnet
B)http
C)ftp
D)rpc

Question 75

Which of the following was one of the top 5 cloud applications in 2010?

A)cloud backup
B)web applications
C)business applications
D)all of the mentioned

Question 76

Point out the correct statement.

A)google's cloud includes perhaps some 10 data centers worldwide
B)flipkart.com's infrastructure was built to support elastic demand so the system could accommodate peak traffic
C)data centers have been sited to optimize the overall system latency
D)all of the mentioned

Question 77

Which of the following benefit is related to creates resources that are pooled together in a system that supports multi-tenant usage?

A)on-demand self-service
B)broad network access
C)resource pooling
D)all of the mentioned

Question 78

The__________ is something that you can obtain under contract from your vendor.

A)pos
B)qos
C)sos
D)all of the mentioned

Question 79

Point out the wrong statement.

A)internet consumes roughly 1 percent of the world's total power
B)the cost advantages of cloud computing have enabled new software vendors to create productivity applications
C)a client can provision computer resources without the need for interaction with cloud service provider personnel
D)none of the mentioned

Question 80

All cloud computing applications suffer from the inherent__________ that is intrinsic in their WAN connectivity.

A)propagation
B)latency
C)noise
D)all of the mentioned