B.Sc. CSIT Old Question Collection: Introduction to Cloud Computing – 8th Semester

BSc. CSIT 8th semester old question collection: Introduction to Cloud Computing 2069

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1. Explain the cloud computing model and its benefits.

2.Explain the cloud deployment models.

3.What are the differences between public clouds and private clouds?

4.What are the implementation issues on SAAS? Explain.

5.Explain the platform as a service and its challenges.

6.Explain the data center virtualization.

7.What do you mean by service oriented architecture(SOA)? Explain with example.

8.How can you design the security architecture in cloud? Explain.

9.Explain the process of implementation of Network Intrusion Detection.

10.Explain the disaster recovery planning of cloud computing.

BSc. CSIT 8th semester old question collection :Introduction to Cloud Computing 2071

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1. How grid computing differs from cloud computing? Justify what the self-service provisioning and multitenacy properties of cloud computing means?
2. Describe possible services that can be achieved through Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
3. What do you mean by Elastic IP Addressing? Describe How Elastic IPs work in cloud services.
4. Discuss about the planning needed for building the Services Oriented Architecture.
5. What are the Managed Services Providers(MSP)? Discuss the evolution of MSP Model to Cloud Computing.
6. “Virtualization is the key to cloud computing”, justify this statement with proper arguments. How hypervisors are used in cloud computing services?
7. Explain the different types of implementing Network Intrusion Detection Systems in cloud.
8. What can be the impact of disasters in cloud? How geographic redundancy and organizational redundancy ensures disaster recovery in cloud services.
9. Discuss how security architecture and trust architecture ensure security of cloud services networks.
10. Write short notes on(any two)

• Jericho Cube Model

• Role of open source software in cloud computing

• Utility Computing

BSc. CSIT 8th semester old question collection :Introduction to Cloud Computing 2072

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1.Explain the components of cloud computing.

2.Explain the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and its characteristics.

3.Explain the cloud data center and its application.

4.Explain the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and its characteristics.

5.Explain the service provided by the amazon EC2 service from user perspective.

6.Explain the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and its characteristics.

7.Explain the Jericho cloud cube model.

8.Explain the cloud security challenges.

9.What do you mean by Network Intrusion detection?

10.Explain the disaster recovery planning in cloud system.

BSc. CSIT 8th semester old question collection :Introduction to Cloud Computing 2073

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1. What do you mean by cloud? Describe the basic characteristics of a cloud.

2.What type of deployment models can be adopted in cloud computing. Describe each of them with suitable example.

3.Discuss the capabilities that the cloud users can get through Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Also mention the key characteristics of PaaS.

4.How the Jericho Cloud Cube model dimensions like perimeterised, de-perimeterised and proprietary, open differentiate the cloud formations from each other?

5.What do you mean by Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). How can you characterize Service Oriented Architecture?

6.What are the Managed Service Providers (MSP). Discuss the evolution of MSP Model to cloud computing.

7.Define virtualization. What is the role of virtualization in cloud computing?

8.What do you mean by an intrusion in a cloud network? How intrusion in cloud networks are detected?

9.How data segmentation and credential management ensures host security in a cloud? Explain with suitable example.

10.Write short notes on (any two):

• Risk Assessment in Cloud

• Role of Open Source Software in Cloud Computing

• Grid Computing

BSc. CSIT 8th semester old question collection :Introduction to Cloud Computing 2074

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1.Define the term cloud in cloud computing. Conceptualize self-provisioning and provisioning capability in cloud computing.

2.What is para-virtualization? How virtualization is used to enforce cloud computing services?

3.Define cloud migration. What are the reasons for the companies to migrate from traditional computing environment to cloud computing environments?

4.What do you mean by anything-as-a-service? How external and internal dimension in Jericho cloud cube model differs from the proprietary and open dimension?

5.Explain how services like early detection, log centralization and continuous system patching are provided under Monitoring-as-a-Service?

6.Mention the similarities and dissimilarities between managed service providers cloud service providers. How organizations can get benefited by virtualizing the data centers?

7.Why cloud services are designed based on the loosely coupled component principle of Service Oriented Architecture(SOA)? How SOA is used in designing cloud services?

8.What is host security? Discuss various approaches for ensuring host security in cloud networks.

9.Why it is important to assess the concept of recovery time objective in disaster recovery? How disaster recovery is done in cloud infrastructure?

10.Discuss the various services provided under Infrastructure-as-a-Service(IaaS)?

BSc. CSIT 8th semester old question collection :Introduction to Cloud Computing 2075

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1. How cloud computing is different than traditional on premise computing? How properties like elasticity and scalability influence cloud computing?
2. How cloud services can be deployed? In which scenario hybrid cloud model is better to deploy? How it can be used in cloud?
3. What is the use of grid computing? How computing in grid architecture differs from cloud architecture? Explain.
4. Mention the characteristics of Software-as-a-Sernice(SaaS). What implementation issues should be considered in SasS?
5. What computing services are provided under PaaS? Discuss, with example, the concepts of perimeterized and deperimeterized dimensions in Jericho Cube Model.
6. What computing can be provided under Communication-as-a-Service? Mention the advantages of using
7. How data center virtualization is done? Discuss the various building blocks of data center.
8. Define SOA. How cloud services can be benefited by using the concepts of service Oriented Architecture?
9. Why intrusion detection systems are implemented in cloud networks? How anamoly based intrusion detection system differs from signature based?
10. Define recovery point objective. How the geographical redundancy and organizational redundancy are used in cloud disaster recovery?

BSc. CSIT 8th semester old question collection :Introduction to Cloud Computing 2076

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1. How the term cloud has been instantiated in cloud computing ? Discuss the benefits of adapting cloud computing environments.
2. What is the need for adapting hybrid cloud deployment model? How this model differs from public and private deployment models?
3. Discuss the various dimensions used by Jericho cloud model to describe cloud computing.
4. Describe the cloud services provided under Monitoring-as-a-Service.
5. What is communication as a service? What features are provided under this service? Mention advantages of this cloud service.
6. What is data center virtualization? Discuss the building blocs of data centers.
7. What is service oriented architecture? Mention its role in building cloud systems.
8. Discuss the security architecture, trust architecture and governance framework for ensuring cloud security controls.
9. Discuss different approaches used for ensuring host security in cloud networks.
10. Write Short Notes on

• Amazon Web Services

• Grid Computing

BSc. CSIT 8th semester old question collection :Introduction to Cloud Computing 2078

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1. Define cloud computing. Discuss the challenges in cloud computing environments.
2. Discuss the features that make cloud computing better than traditional on premise computing.
3. How grid computing architecture is different than cloud computing architecture?
4. What is virtualization? How cloud services are based on the concept of virtualization?
5. Differentiate platform as a service, infrastructure as a service and software as a service with each other.
6. How managed service providers evolved as cloud service providers? How multi purpose architectures have been adapted by them?
7. Define service oriented architecture. Why it is defined as black-box and loosely coupled architecture?
8. What is intrusion detection? How network intrusion detection systems are implemented in cloud networks?
9. What is disaster in cloud? How disaster management is done in cloud infrastructures?
10. Write short notes on:

• Jericho Cube Model

• Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective.

Model Question :Introduction to Cloud Computing

1. Describe about cloud based services. What are the challenges in cloud computing?
2. How grid computing differs from cloud computing? Justify what the elasticity and multitenancy properties of cloud computing means?
3. What do you mean by virtualization? What is the role of virtualization in cloud computing?
4. What are the cloud security challenged? How risks can be handles n cloud computing?
5. Discuss about disasters in cloud. How intrusions are detected in cloud?
6. What do you mean by service oriented architectures (SOA)? How can you characterize SOA?
7. Discuss about Jericho Cloud Cube Model. What are the advantages of Communication-as-a-service (CaaS) Model?
8. Discuss about the implementation issues that need to be considered while maintaining Software-as-a-service (SaaS) Model.
9. Discuss about the planning needed for building the service oriented architecture.
10. Describe the services provided by the Monitoring-as-a-service (MaaS) vendors in cloud service systems.