Deck 12: Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems

Question 1

__________          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

Answer 1

cloud computing

Question 2

Cloud providers provide cloud services to the cloud users.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Which of the following is not a cloud stakeholder?

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

Answer 3

clients

Question 4

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 5

Which of the following is not a type of cloud?

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

Question 6

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 7

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

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

Question 8

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

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

Question 9

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

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

Question 10

Saas stands for?

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

Question 11

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 12

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 13

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 14

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 15

Logical extension of computation migration is __________

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

Question 16

Processes on the remote systems are identified by __________

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

Question 17

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

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

Question 18

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 19

Internet provides_________    for remote login.

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

Question 20

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 21

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 22

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 23

The_________is something that you can obtain under contract from your vendor.

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

Question 24

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 25

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