DEPARTMENT OF CSE/IT/DS/AIML

AY 2024 - 2025

Question Bank

for

CLOUD COMPUTING
(Common to all Branches)

R18 IV Year I Semester

CSE (A, B & C) /IT/DS/AIML

Prepared By

Dr.P.LAXMI KANTH
K.DEEPTHI
K.SUMANA
T.PRIYANKA
J.SRI KANTH
Course: B.Tech Year / Semester: IV/I
Subject Name: Cloud Computing Branch Name(s): CSE/AIML/DS/IT
Subject Code(s):157AW

DESCRIPTIVE QUESTION BANK

QUESTION BANK
UNIT -I
Computing Paradigms:

S. No Descriptive Questions Marks CO PO BTL

a) Define computing paradigm? List any five

2M 1 5 1
computing paradigms?

1. b) How do we perceive high performance 3M 1 3 1

computing?
c) Define High-Performance computing? Illustrate
10M 1 2 2
the need of HPC taking any two real case
scenarios?
a) Define Cloud computing? 2M 1 5 1

2. b) Distinguish cluster computing and grid 3M 1 1 4

computing.
c) Discuss the five essential characters of cloud 10M 1 2 2
computing?
a) Define Bio Computing? List types of bio 2M 1 1 1
computers?
3. b) Classify quantum computing properties? 3M 1 5 2

c) Discuss in detail about grid computing with

10M 1 3 2
neat architecture diagram?

a) Define Distributed computing? 2M 1 5 1

4. b) Illustrate how parallel computing differs from 3M 1 2 2

Distributed computing?
c) Explain the difference between nano computing
10M 1 5 2
and optical computing?

a) Define the Network Computing? 2M 1 5 1

5. b) Illustrate the Characteristic features of 3M 1 3 4

Distributed Computing?
c) Discuss about mobile computing and its 10M 1 1 2
significance.
a) Define Optical Computing? 2M 1 2 1
6. b) List any five applications of cloud
3M 1 2 1
computing?
c) Explain in detail about quantum computing? 10M 1 5 2

UNIT-II
Cloud Computing Fundamentals:

S. No Descriptive Questions Marks CO PO BTL

a) Explain the motivation for Cloud computing? 2M 2 2 2

1. b) Distinguish cloud and conventional computing? 3M 2 3 4

c) Explain in detail cloud computing architecture? 10M 2 3 5

a) Define the need for cloud computing? 2M 2 4 1

2. b) Examine “cloud computing is a service”? 3M 2 3 4

c) Discuss advantages of cloud computing? 10M 2 4 6

a) Define features of cloud computing? 2M 2 5 1

3. b) List any five application of cloud computing? 3M 2 3 1

c) Examine “Cloud computing is a Platform”? 10M 2 3 3

a) Discuss limitations of cloud computing? 2M 2 2 2

b) List the various technologies used in cloud 3M 2 4 1

4.
computing?
c) Explain in detail principles of cloud computing?
10M 2 1 5

a) List the four layers of cloud architecture in cloud 2M 2 2 1

computing?
5. b) List the various components of cloud computing 3M 2 1 1
Architecture?
c) Explain the Five Essential Characteristics
of cloud computing? 10M 2 5 5

a) Define self-service cloud computing. 2M 2 4 1

6. b) List out types of cloud? 3M 2 5 1

c) Discuss in detail various cloud deployment 10M 2 5 4

models.
S. No Descriptive Questions Marks CO PO BTL

a) Define Cloud Architecture? 2M 3 2 1

b) Explain Anatomy of Cloud?
3M 3 2 2
1. c) Explain Network Connectivity in Cloud 10M 3 4 5
Computing?
a) Define the feature Multitenancy of Cloud? 2M 3 3 1

2. b) List out the Cloud application features? 3M 3 4 1

c) Explain Applications cloud?
10M 3 1 5

a) List the two parts of cloud management? 2M 3 2 1

3. b) Define cloud management? 3M 3 3 3
c) Explain briefly managing the cloud 10M 3 2 5
infrastructure?
a) Define cloud migration. 2M 3 4 1
4. b) List the Phases of cloud migration? 3M 3 5 1
c) Discuss in detail the migrating application to
10M 3 1 6
cloud.

a) Define the migration strategy of cloud? 2M 3 2 1

5. b) Explain Evaluation phase of cloud migration? 3M 3 3 2
c) Explain in detail drawbacks of web applications?
10M 3 1 5

a) Explain migrate existing applications? 2M 3 1 2

6. b) List the four approaches for cloud migration? 3M 3 4 3
c) Explain briefly Approaches for Cloud Migration?
10M 2 1 6
UNIT -III
Cloud Computing Architecture and Management:
UNIT –IV
Cloud Service Models:

S. No Descriptive Questions Marks CO PO BTL

a) List the three basic cloud service models? 2M 3 2 1

1. b) Define characteristics of cloud service models? 3M 3 4 1

c) Explain briefly cloud service models? 10M 3 5 5

a) Define infrastructure as a service? 2M 3 3 1

2. b) List the six Characteristics of IaaS? 3M 3 5 1

c) Analyze pros and cons of as a service in
10M 3 4 4
cloud.
a) Define platform as a service in cloud? 2M 3 2 2

3. b) List the six Characteristics of PaaS? 3M 3 2 5

c) Discuss suitability of platform as a service
10M 3 3 4
in cloud?
a) Define Software as a service in cloud? 2M 3 1 3

4. b) List the Characteristics of SaaS? 3M 3 3 4

c) Explain briefly Services provided by Saas 10M 1 1 2

Providers?
a) Define Desktop as a Service? 2M 3 5 1

5. b) List the other cloud service models?

3M 3 2 1

c) Explain in detail cloud service models? 10M 3 4 4

a) List advantages of cloud service models? 2M 3 2 4

6. b) Explain applications of cloud service models? 3M 3 3 2

c) Explain various cloud service models other than

10M 3 3 2
SaaS, PaaS and IaaS?

UNIT –V
Cloud Service Providers:

S. No Descriptive Questions Marks CO PO BTL

a) Define EMC cloud? 2M 4 4 1

1. b) Explain EMC IT? 3M 4 3 2

c) Demonstrate Captiva Cloud Toolkit? 10M 4 4 2

a) Define Google cloud provider? 2M 4 5 1

2. b) Classify Google cloud service providers? 3M 4 2 4

c) Explain various Google cloud service providers? 10M 4 2 5

a) Define Amazon Web Services (AWS)? 2M 4 1 1

3. b) List out the three Amazon Web Services (AWS)? 3M 4 3 1

c) Explain Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud? 10M 4 1 5

a) Define Microsoft Azure? 2M 4 3 2

4. b) Classify Microsoft cloud service providers? 3M 4 5 4

c) Explain Microsoft cloud service providers? 10M 4 5 3

a) Define IBM Smart Cloud? 2M 4 2 4

5. b) Classify IBM cloud service providers? 3M 4 3 4

c) Demonstrate SAP cloud service providers? 10M 4 1 5

a) Define virtualization? 2M 4 4 4

6. b) Categorize Salesforce cloud service providers? 3M 4 2 4

c) Explain briefly Aneka cloud. 10M 4 5 5

UNIT-I

Objective Questions
Multiple choice questions :
1. If one node fails in distributed system then . [ ]

a) the remaining nodes can continue operating

b) all the sites will stop working
c) directly connected sites will stop working
d) none of the mentioned
2. The capability of a system to adapt the increased service load is called . [ ]

a) scalability b) tolerance c) capacity d) none of the mentioned

3. It is the simultaneous use of multiple compute resources to solve a computational problem

[ ]

a) Parallel computing b) Single processing c) Sequential computing d) None of these

4. leads to concurrency. [ ]

a) Serialization b) Parallelism c) Serial processing d) Distribution

5. To which class of systems does the von Neumann computer belong?

[ ]

a) SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data)

b) MIMD (Multiple Instruction Multiple Data)
c) MISD (Multiple Instruction Single Data)
d) SISD (Single Instruction Single Data)

6. Which of the following is an example for distributed computing.

[ ]

a) Telephone or cellular networks

b) ATM machines
c) Network of work stations
d) All of these

7. Which of the following is an example for cluster computing.

[ ]

a) High Performance
b) Scalable
c) Availability
d) All of these

8. uses of widely distributed computer resources to reach a common goal.

[ ]

a) Cluster computing
b) Grid computing
c) Cloud computing
d) Utility computing

9. Which of the following is a mobile computing device. [ ]

a) Smartphone
b) GPS system
c) Smartphone
d) All of these

10. A is a computer whose physical dimensions are microscopic. [ ]

a) Nano computer
b) Optical computer
c) Bio computer
d) Quantum computer

Fill in the blanks

10. HPC works out to be economical (Yes/No).

11. uses distributed systems to solve computational problems.

12. nodes can be packaged in a compact or a slack fashion.

13. can be defined as a network of computers working together to perform a

task thatwould rather be difficult for a single machine.
14. can be defined as a network of computers working together to perform a
task thatwould rather be difficult for a single machine.
15. is acting of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something,
includingvirtual computer hardware platforms, storage devices, and computer network
resources.

16. use biologically derived materials to perform computational functions.

17. In quantum computing, a can exist in a Superposition, carrying the value of both 1
and 0 atthe same time.

18. _________________division multiplexing is a method of sending many different

wavelengths down thesame optical fiber.

19. ____________ computing is a combination of physics, mathematics, computer science and

information theory.

20. The___________________ transistors in traditional computers may be replaced by transistors based on carbon
nanotubes.

UNIT-1 – Objective Key:

Q.No. Answer Q.No. Answer
01 A 11 YES
02 A 12 Distributed computing
03 A 13 Cluster

04 B 14 Grid Computing

05 D 15 Virtualization

06 A 16 Bio Computers

07 D 17 Qubit

08 B 18 Wavelength

09 A 19 Quantum

10 A 20 Silicon

UNIT-II
Objective Questions
Multiple choice questions
1. Which of the following is not a type of cloud? [ ]
a) Private b) Public c) Protected c) Hybrid

2. 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) Web-based architecture

3. Which of the following Cloud Security Characteristic states that data not having been
alteredby an unauthorized party?
[ ]

a) Integrity b) Confidentiality c) Authenticity d) Availability

4. is a paradigm of distributed computing to provide the customers on-

demand, utility based computing service.
[ ]

a) Distributed System b) Cloud Computing c) Remote Sensing d) Private Computing

5. PaaS stands for? [ ]

a) Product as a service b) Platform application and services

c) Platform as a system d) Platform as a service

6. In this type of cloud, an organization rents cloud services from cloud providers on-
demandbasis.
[ ]

a) Private b) Public c) Protected d) Hybrid

7. These cloud services are of the form of utility computing i.e. the uses these
servicespay-as-you-go model.
[ ]

a) Cloud Providers b) Clients c) End users d) Cloud users

8. Cloud Computing refers to? [ ]

a) Accessing the hardware

b) Configuring the hardware
c) Manipulating the hardware
d) All of the above

9. 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.

10. Which of the following is deployment model?

[ ]
a) Public b) Private c) Hybrid d) All of the mentioned
Fill in the blanks

11. How many types of computing cloud services are present?

12. Is google doc related to cloud computing? (Yes/No)

13. Is internet connection required in cloud computing? (Yes/No)

14. Hybrid cloud is a combination of .

15. is an example for cloud service model.

16. provides organizations with off-site hardware (such as computer infrastructure,

storageand networking capacity) on demand.

17. providers offer their clients a platform on which to develop, test and manage
customsoftware and applications.

18. service model refers to software and applications delivered through any
internet-enabled device.

19. In a cloud, services are delivered over a network that is open for use by anyone.

20. In a , services are shared by organizations with similar data processing

requirements and acommon approach to privacy.

UNIT-2 – Objective Key:

Q.No. Answer Q.No. Answer
01 C 11 3
02 A 12 YES
03 A 13 YES
PUBLIC & PRIVATE
04 B 14
CLOUDS
05 D 15 AWS
06 B 16 A PRIVATE CLOUD
07 D 17 CLOUD
08 D 18 SOFTWARE AS A
09 C 19 PUBLIC
10 D 20 IaaS
UNIT-III

Objective Questions
Multiple choice questions
1.Cloud Computing refers to? [ ]
A. accessing the hardware B. configuring the hardware
C. manipulating the hardware D. All of the above

2.Which of the following is the working model for cloud computing? [ ]

A. Deployment Model B. Configuring Model

C. Collaborative Model D. All of the above

3. provides the runtime environment for applications, development and deployment

tools, etc. [ ]

A. IaaS B. PaaS C. SaaS D. XaaS

4.Which of the following are true characteristics of SaaS service model? [ ]

A. The software applications are maintained by the vendor.

B. They can be scaled up or down on demand.
C. SaaS applications are cost-effective since they do not require any maintenance at end user
side.
D. All of the above

5.Which of the following are benefit of IaaS? [ ]

A. Flexible and efficient renting of computer hardware.

B. Portability, interoperability with legacy applications.
C. Full control of the computing resources through administrative access to VMs.
D. All of the above

6.Which of the following are benefit of PaaS? [ ]

A. Lower administrative overhead

B. Lower total cost of ownership
C. More current system software
D. All of the above

7.Which of the following is associated with considerable vendor lock-in? [ ]

A. PaaS B. SaaS C. IaaS D. DaaS

8. Which of the following are correct technologies working behind the cloud computing
platforms? [ ]

A. Virtualization B. Service Oriented Architecture

C. Grid Computing D. All of the above
9. In Grid Computing, computer resources are? [ ]
A. heterogeneous dispersed. B. geographically dispersed.
C. Both A and B D. None of the above

10. Managed IT services are based on the concept of? [ ]

B. Virtualization B. SOA C. Grid Computing D. Utility Computing
Fill in the blanks

11. Utility computing is based on .

12. consists of servers, storage devices, network, cloud management

software, deployment software, and platform virtualization.

13. Resource allocation and de-allocation services provided by .

14. Flexible and efficient renting of computer hardware is provided by cloud

computingmodel.

15. SaaS applications are .

16. Cloud Computing Architecture contains front end and .

17. also called the virtualization layer, where all the servers are pooled together into
one.

18. layer comprises the operating system and other requisition structures and is
based over theinfrastructure layer.

19. is the topmost layer - contains applications that directly interact with the end-user.

20. deploys software that makes an abstraction layer across computer hardware,
letting the hardware components such as processors, memory, storage etc. of a particular
computer to be segmented into several virtual elements.
UNIT-3 – Objective Key:
Q.No. Answer Q.No. Answer
01 D 11 Pay what you use model

02 A 12 Cloud Infrastructure

03 B 13 Cloud service Providers

04 D 14 Iaas
Dropbox, Google Workspace,
05 D 15 and Salesforce
06 D 16 back end

07 A 17 Infrastructure Layer

08 A 18 Platform
09 C 19 Application Layer

10 D 20 Virtualization
UNIT-IV
Objective Questions
Multiple choice questions

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

a) Private b) Public c) Protected d) Hybrid

2. enables the migration of the virtual image from one physical
machine toanother.
[ ]

a) visualization b) virtualization c) migration d) virtual transfer

3. Virtualization facilitates multiple machines on the same physical machine with Select one:
[ ]

a) Same OS & different versions b) Same OS & same versions

c) Different OS & different versions d) All of the above

4. Live migration of VMs helps in Select one: [ ]

a. Maintenance b. Load balancing c. Availability d. All of the above

5. VMM facilitates sharing of Select one: [ ]

a. Memory & I/O b. CPU, memory & I/O c. CPU & memory d. I/O & CPU

6. What does Virtualization do? Select one: [ ]

a. Each “guest” OS is managed by a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM), also known as a hypervisor.
b. It is a means of separating hardware from a single operating system.
c. Virtualization allows multiple operating system instances to run concurrently on a single
computer
d. All of the above

7. A configured client server network is required to be provisioned. You would go for Select one:
[ ]

a. SaaS b. IaaS c. NaaS d. PaaS

8. What are the goals of Hypervisor design? Select one:

[ ]

a. Scalability b. Reliability c. Isolation d. All of the above

9. The cloud infrastructure is operated for the exclusive use of an organization.

Selectone:
[ ]
a. Hybrid b. Public c. Community d. Private

10. If virtualization occurs at application level, OS level and hardware level, then such
service incloud is
[ ]

A. IaaS B. SaaS C. PaaS D. DaaS

Fill in the blanks

11. Virtualization allows sharing the resources of hardware across multiple environments.
(Yes/No)
.

12. A virtual machine running on a server of a particular make cannot be relocated to the
server of
another make. (Yes/No) .

13. Depending on the details of the , an enterprise may choose to move an application to
its
new hosting environment without any modifications.

14. A cloud model provides the best of private and public cloud models, although performance
andconnectivity may suffer.

15. The problem in cloud computing is the situation where customers are
dependent on a single cloud provider technology implementation and cannot easily move in
the future to a different vendor without substantial costs, legal constraints, or technical
incompatibilities.

16. In cloud, due to resources are instantly available when needed.

17. In cloud, due to anytime or anywhere connection to the Internet exists.

18. In cloud, due to data center resources are pooled together optimizing quality of
service.

19. In cloud, the ability to add or remove computing resources based on need.

20. In cloud, is the ability to measure resource usage and charge customers.

UNIT-4 – Objective Key:

Q.No. Answer Q.No. Answer

01 D 11 YES
02 B 12 NO
03 D 13 MIGRATION
04 D 14 HYBRID
05 B 15 VENDOR LOCK-IN
ON DEMAND
06 D 16
COMPUTING
Internet Protocol
07 B 17 (IP)access / IP
transit connectivity
08 D 18 RESOURCE POOLING
09 D 19 CLOUD ELASTICITY
10 B 20 MEASURED USAGE

UNIT-V
Objective Questions
Multiple choice questions

1. In Google cloud platform, pricing of a VM can be vary based on [ ]

a) Server location b) Machine type

C) Type and size of storage disk d) All of the above

2. The most fundamental unit of cloud computing is? [ ]

a) Physical server b) Block c) Virtual Machine d) Subnet

3. The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) was launched in [ ]

a) 2008 b) 2009 c) 1998 d) 2005

4. In Google Cloud Platform, your network and all its resources are considered as? [ ]

a) Virtual private cloud b) Subdomain c) Cluster d) None of the above

5. In which year, Amazon Web Services founded? [ ]

A. 2005 B. 2006 C. 2007 D. 2008

6. Which of the following dynamically grow and shrink the load-balancing capacity to
adjust totraffic demands?
[ ]

A. Amazon Cloud-front B. Elastic Caches

C. Amazon RDS D. Elastic Load Balancing

7. Which of the following is IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center feature? [ ]

a) Industry-standard user experience

b) Efficient infrastructure management and provisioning
c) Self-service portal for end users
d) All of the above

8. Aneka supports programming model. [ ]

a) Thread b) Task c) MapReduce d) All of these

9. VMware provides ideal solution for all companies that offer hosted services to third
parties,including
[ ]

a) Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers b) Application service providers (ASP)s

c) Platform as a service (PaaS) providers d) All of these
10. Microsoft’s communication and collaboration platform combining
workplaceprovides .
[ ]

a) Chat and video meetings b) File storage

c) Application integration d) All of these
Fill in the blanks

11. is distributed infrastructure to set up and deploy Clouds, it provides

support for a wide range of services and programming models, including
MapReduce.

12. is an implementation of Google MapReduce based on the Java

programming language.

13. EC2 stands for .

14. IBM notes has a cost-effective email archiving solution that provides
customers with the confidence of knowing email is archived while making data
accessible for compliance and e- discovery.

15. SAP Cloud Platform is a developed by SAP SE for creating new

applications or extending existing applications in a secure cloud computing
environment managed by SAP.

16. Aneka provides developers with a rich set of for transparently exploiting such
resources and expressing the business logic of applications by using the preferred
programming abstractions.

17. SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform that integrates with .

18. Provides customer relationship management service and also provides

a complementary suite of enterprise applications focused on customer service,
marketing automation, analytics, and application development.

19. Offers services such as Fanatical Support for Microsoft Azure and for AWS.

20. is a cloud computing platform as a service for developing and

hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers.
Q.No. Answer Q.No. Answer
01 C 11 Aneka
02 A 12 Hadoop
Elastic Compute
03 A 13
Cloud
04 A 14 Content collector
05 B 15 platform
06 D 16 API
07 D 17 Microsoft 365
08 C 18 Salesforce
Rackspace
09 D 19

10 D 20 Google App Engine