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Exam Date 1 3 1 1 2 0 1 8 Session AN

Course Code CS 431 Course Title Distributed Cloud Computing

Time: 180 min Mark: 40 M

Part – A 10x0.5=5M

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1. Point out the wrong statement [ ]

a. The customer takes no responsibility for maintaining the hardware, the software, or
the development of the applications
b. The vendor is responsible for all the operational aspects of the service
c. Google's App Engine platform is IaaS offering
d. Google's App Engine platform is IaaS offering

2. Which of the following is a virtual machine technology now owned by Oracle that can run
various operating systems? [ ]
a. Vmachines
b. VirtualBox
c. DropBox
d. None of the mentioned

3. Which of the following provides development frameworks and control structures? [ ]

a. IaaS
b. SaaS
c. PaaP
d. All of the mentioned

4. Point out the correct statement. [ ]

a. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) describes a standard method for requesting
services from distributed components and managing the results.
b. SOA provides the translation and management layer in an architecture that removes
the barrier for a client obtaining desired services.
c. With SOA, clients and components can be written in different languages and can use
multiple messaging protocols
d. All of the mentioned.

5. Which of the following type of virtualization is also characteristic of cloud computing?

[ ]
a. Storage
b. Application
c. CPU
d. All of the mentioned
6. In order to achieve __________ we have traditionally required __________ projects. With
service-orientation, we aim to establish an intrinsic level of __________ within each service
so as to reduce theneed for __________ effort. [ ]
a. vendor diversity, integration, vendor diversity, design
b. agility, development, scalability, development
c. interoperability, integration, interoperability, integration
d. autonomy, integration, statelessness, integration

7. Which of the following is fundamental unit of virtualized client in an IaaS deployment?

[ ]
a. Workunit
b. Workspace
c. Workload
d. All of the mentioned

8. Which of the following lets a Web service advertise itself in terms of a collection of
endpoints? [ ]
a. WSDL
b. VMc
c. SOAP
d. All of the mentioned

9. The idea behind this technology is to use resources on an under-used server to provide more
computing resources to the database. It works via many different servers, each with their
own memory, CPUs and other resources. [ ]
a. load balancing
b. file sharing
c. grid computing
d. parallel processing

10. Point out the wrong statement. [ ]

a. A deployment model defines the purpose of the cloud and the nature of how the cloud
is located.
b. Amazon has built a worldwide network of data centers to service its search engine.
c. Azure enables .NET Framework applications to run over the Internet.
d. A PaaS service adds integration features, middleware, and other orchestration and
choreography services to the IaaS model.
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11. Given that 95% of a program’s execution time occurs inside a loop that can be executed
in parallel. What is the maximum speedup we should expect from a parallel version of the
program executing on 8 CPUs?
12. A multicomputer with 256 CPUs is organized as a 16×16 grid. What is the worst-case
delay (in hops) that a message might have to take? And Also consider a 256-CPU
hypercube. What is the worst-case delay here,again in hops?
13. Imagine a Web server that maintains a table in which client IP addresses are mapped to
the most recently accessed Web pages. When a client connects to the server, the server
looks up the client in its table, and if found, returns the registered page. Is this server
stateful or stateless?
14. Consider the behaviour of two machines in a distributed system. Both have clocks that
are supposed to tick 1000 times per millisecond. One of them actually does, but the other
ticks only 990 times per millisecond. If UTC updates come in once a minute, what is the
maximum clock skew that will occur?

15. Consider a chain of processes P1, P2, ..., Pn implementing a multitiered client-server
architecture. Process Pi is client of process Pi +1, and Pi will return a reply to Pi −1 only
after receiving a reply from Pi +1. What are the main problems with this organization
when taking a look at the request-reply performance at process P1?
Kayvon Inc. (KayvonInc.com) is a local startup that has been asked by the city to monitor
and record near misses and accidents between cars, bicyclists and pedestrians 24 hours
per day,7 days per week, 365 days per year. Kayvon Inc. (KI) is planning to deploy video
cameras and dedicated computing at each busy intersection in the city.
KI plans to capture video at a sustained frame grab rate of 20 frames per second, 24
hours per day. They will provide privacy to drivers, cyclists and pedestrians by
denaturing the video at the intersection, before it is stored. Since the bandwidth from the
intersection to the cloud is limited, KI plans to process the streams of data at the
intersection to identify near misses and accidents. They will then send the data for just the
“interesting” cases to the cloud for storage and potential further analysis.

16. We know that cloud computing offers various benefits and features to users. For each
benefit listed below, indicate whether you believe it would be important to Kayvon Inc
and describe why.

Cloud Advantages Beneficial or Not Beneficial to Why

Kayvon Inc.(indicate Yes or No)

VM Elasticity
No Upfront Costs
Reduced IT
Maintenance
 17. KI has grown and gone international, soon to cover 75% of the world’s big cities! Should
they build their own private cloud? Explain your answer.

18. The figure below illustrates the significant data processing actions of map and reduces
tasks. This question asks you to explain, in words, the steps for a portion of it: how each
mapper processes and prepares intermediate data for use by reducers.
Clarify where data is put (into a memory buffer vs. in a file) and Also Justify your
Answer.

19. Imagine running an application that could have access to a Hadoop Distributed File System
(HDFS), an Amazon’s Elastic Block Service (EBS) and Amazon’s Simple Storage Service
(S3).
Which of the three storage options is the most likely to provide the highest total data
bandwidth, and what design feature is most likely to provide this performance advantage?

Note: Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides persistent block storage
volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud.

20. At your internship job, an older programmer, Kamal, comments that cloud computing was
invented because of special shopping days like Cyber Monday in the US, during which
Amazon does over $3B in online sales, or Single’s Day in China, during which Alibaba
does over $14B in online sales.
a. Give one reason why this might be false (and explain). That is, why might Cyber
Monday and Single’s Day not be great examples for cloud computing?
b. Give one reason why this might be true, and explain?

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