Computer Engineering department
Mid sem Question Bank
Sem-8
Sub: Cloud Infrastructure and Services (2180712)
1. Define cloud, on demand self service, resource pooling, broad network
access, rapid elasticity and measured. [7]
2. What are the characteristics of cloud computing? [3]
3. Explain pros and cons of cloud computing. [4]
4. Define cloud computing and state its desirable features. [7]
5. Explain public, private, community and hybrid cloud. [7]
6. Which cloud is better? Public or private. Justify your answer. [4]
7. Describe layers and types of cloud computing services. [7]
8. Define load balancing. What is the need of load balancing in cloud
computing? List network resources that can be load balanced. [4]
9. List cloud deployment model and describe public cloud. [3] Or List cloud
deployment model and describe community cloud. [4]
10. Explain SAAS with an example. [4]
11. Explain IAAS, PAAS and SAAS with example. [7]
12. Explain virtualization and hypervisor with its importance. [7]
13. Compare and contrast Emulation and Para – Virtualization. [4]
14. What is virtual machine? Explain virtual machine types. [4]
15. Compare different cloud service provider. [7]
16. Write a note on cloud computing stack. [7]
17. Explain in brief P2V, V2V, V2P, P2P, D2C, and C2D virtual machine
conversion in VMM. [7]
18. Explain Amazon S3. Explain amazon S3 API. What are the operations we
can execute through API? [7]
19. What is Glacier storage service and how it is beneficial? [7]
20. How machine language help to achieve the goal of cloud computing? [4]
21. Illustrate different service model of cloud. [7]
22. Write a short note on AWS ecosystem. [4]
23. Explain AWS infrastructure. [7]
24. Write S3 URL naming convention. [3]
25. Write a note on AWS API securities. [4] or Write a note on AWS security.
[7]
26. How AWS deals with disaster recovery? [7]
27. How does cloud deals with Disaster Recovery. [3]
28. Explain Dynamo DB and ElastiCashe. [7] or what are the DynamoDB
characteristics? [4] or write overview of ElastiCashe. [3]
29. How can we say our data is secure on cloud and what are the challenges to
achieve it?
30. Explain virtual private cloud and Redshift. [7]
31. How virtual private cloud works? [7]
32. Write overview of Redshift. [3]
33. What do you mean by identity management and access management? [4]
34. What is cloud watch and cloud formation?
35. What is elastic load balancing and how it reduces the work load? [7]
36. Explain SOAP and REST web services? [3]
37. Describe Elastic Block Storage (EBS). [7]
38. What are the features of Relational database servise? [4]
39. Write a short note on High performance AWS networking. [4]
40. Compare and contrast Dynamo DB and Amazon S3. [4]
41. List the OpenIDL authentication steps in cloud security. [3]
42. What is Eucalyptus? Explain in brief. [4]
43. What is Dark Web? Explain in brief. [3]
44. Write a note on EC2. [7]