Cloud computing question bank

Objective Type:

1. What is an advantage of a multi-tenancy cloud environment over a single-tenancy environment?

A. cost savings                  B. easy to customize                      C. faster performance           D. higher data security

2. Which statement best describes the relationship between application, server, and client in a multi-tenancy environment?

A. Single instance of software running on a server and serves one client.

B. Single instance of software running on a server and serves multiple clients.

C. Multiple instances of software running on a server and serves multiple clients.

D. Multiple instances of software running on multiple servers and serves one client.

3. Which cloud computing feature allows for server consolidation resulting in increased asset utilization and decreased data center energy needs?

A. Automation                  B. Governance                                  C. Provisioning                                 D. Virtualization

4. A company gathers, stores, manages, and protects data as part of its business. How can it create business value from the data?

A. Create a virtualized server infrastructure.                     B. Create a virtualized application infrastructure.

C. Create a virtualized information infrastructure.         D. Create a virtualized end user / client infrastructure.

5. What is used to logically assign and separate physical resources such as memory and CPU in a cloud computing model?

A. bios                                  B. a hypervisor                                 C. a load balancer                            D. a blade chassis

6. What are the common sets of technologies used to create a manageable cloud environment?

A. A hypervisor and a hypervisor manager like Virtual Center or VMControl.

B. A hypervisor, a hypervisor manager, automated provisioning, and monitoring.

C. A hypervisor, a hypervisor manager, a self-service portal, automated provisioning, and monitoring.

D. A hypervisor, a hypervisor manager, self-service portal, and an automated provisioning tool.

7. Which statement is true about a bare metal hypervisor?

A. It can only be hosted on an existing operating system.

B. It requires a separate license for the native operating system.

C. It has minimum functionality to support only one type of operating system.

D. It runs directly on server hardware to provide virtual machines with timesharing resources.

8. Write the full form of SOAP…………………………………………………………………………………………………

9. Write the full form of REST ………………………………………………………………………………………………….

10. Write the full form of AJAX …………………………………………………………………………………………………

Short answer type:

1. Explain the key steps in cloud implementation planning process with example.

2. Explain the services provided by Amazon infrastructure cloud from user perspective.

3. What do you understand by cloud analytics? Explain also describe how it works.

4. Describe different types of hypervisors with example and block diagram.

5. Explain what you understand by Hypervisor management software and their requirement.

6. Enlist and explain some of the common pitfalls that come with virtualizations.

7. Explain the risk from multi-tenancy with respect to various cloud environments.

8. Difference between SOAP and REST.

9. Explain mashup services.

10. What is multi-tenant and its support?

Long answer type:

1. Explain Hypervisor and its type.

2. What is virtualization technology and application in enterprises with pitfalls?

3. How multi-tenancy use cloud data store? What is data access control?

4. Explain AJAX, SOAP and REST.

5. What web services are provided by cloud using mashup and AJAX?