QUESTION BANK

10IS845: Clouds, Grids, and Clusters

UNIT – I
1. Define cloud computing.
2. What is Grid? Give example.
3. List and explain the components of Cloud.
4. List the pros and cons of cloud computing.
5. What is Grid Computing?
6. Differentiate between Cloud Computing and Grid Computing.
7. Define Virtualization.
8. List the types of Virtualization. Explain the types of Virtualization.
9. Differentiate between full and para virtualization.
10. What is a Service?
11. What are the Services available on the Cloud?
12. List the advantages and disadvantages of the Services on the Cloud.
13. Explain the applications of the cloud computing.
14. When can one use Cloud Computing?
15. List and explain the implementations of Cloud Computing.
16. Give the scenario when Cloud should not be used.
17. What are the benefits of Cloud?
18. Brief the limitations of Cloud.
19. What are the security concerns on the Cloud?
20. Mention the Regulatory Issues concerning Cloud.

UNIT II
1. Explain Google App Engine and its features.
2. Explain any two services provided by Microsoft.
3. Describe are the services provided by Salesforce.com in cloud computing.
4. Discuss in detail the services provided by IBM.
5. How Amazon EC2 and GoGrid plays a major role in Infrastructure as a
Service? Explain.
6. Briefly explain the features of AWS.
7. What is Platform as a Service means in cloud computing? Explain the
companies which provides that service.
8. How to get Software as a Service in cloud computing? Discuss.
9. Differentiate between SaaS and S+S.
10. How does Cloud applications help in business?
 11. Explain Thomson Reuters.
12. What are the issues involved in deleting a data center? When and how can
you do it? Briefly explain.
13. What are the tips for evaluating SaaS?
14. Explain The following benefits:
a) Operational benefit
b) Economic benefit
c) Staffing benefit

UNIT – III
1. What are the different types of clients that can connect to the cloud?(6Marks)
2. Explain are the various security benefits on the cloud? (6 Marks)
3. How does VPN and SSN networks plays a role in cloud computing? (6 Marks)
4. Explain the different level of connectivity needed for Cloud to deliver its
resources. (8 Marks)
5. Compare the four types of connections used to connect to the cloud. (8 Marks)
6. Explain the different services that need to run depending on the cloud provider. (8
Marks)
7. Explain Storage as a Service. List few storage cloud providers and their services
(6 Marks)
8. Explain Amazon Simple Storage Services[S3](7 Marks).
9. Explain Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network. (7 Marks)
10. Explain MobileMe. (6 Marks)
11. Explain Live Mesh. (4 Marks)
12. Write short notes on (5 Marks each)
a. HTTP
b. XMPP
c. SSL
d. JavaScript
e. XML
f. JSON
13. What are the software that need to run on the client machine to connect to the
cloud? Explain.
14. How SOAP and REST is related to cloud computing? Explain.

UNIT IV
1. What is Web Service? Explain how the Web Services benefit the needs on the
Cloud. (8 Marks)
2. Explain any two company offerings of SaaS in detail.
3. Explain the concept of Software plus service with its pros and cons. (6 Marks)
4. List the driving forces that makes the SaaS as popular?
5. Explain the features of Google Android. (6 Marks)
6. What is the need for Virtualization? How to virtualize?(6 marks)
7. Explain any two server virtualization products. (6 Marks)
8. Explain the features of Microsoft’s Hyper V (8 Marks)
9. Explain the features of VMware Server. (6 Marks)
10. Explain the features of VMware ESX Server. (6 Marks)
11. List any offerings of companies that provides thin clients?
12. Explain the various Cloud Services available for individuals. (6 Marks)
13. Explain the concept of migration in detail.
14. List the capabilities offered by the VMotion migration tool.

UNIT V
1. What is a Grid?
2. What is grid computing?
3. What is Metacomputing? How to achieve it?
4. What is metacomputer? List its components.
5. How can business grids be defined? What are the benefits of a business grid?
6. What is an e-governance grid? How do business and e-governance grids differs
from a computational grid?
7. What are the Key Functional requirement in Grid Computing?
8. Distinguish between the central grid approach and the distributed grid
computing.
9. Explain the Standards for Grid Computing.
10. What is OGSA?
11. What is datafarm architecture? Explain its main features and compare it with
SRB architecture.
12. What isWSRF? What are its benefits? Where it is available?
13. How does OGSA perform resource distribution with SOA?
14. Explain WSRF Specifications in detail.
15. What is resource approach to stateful web services?
16. Explain the need for the integration of databases and grid.
17. What are the benefits of database integration with the grid.
18. What are the various problems in integration of the grid and database?
19. What are the requirements of a grid-enabled database? Explain.
20. Explain SRB.
21. Explain OGSA-DAI
22. Explain OGSI.

UNIT VI

1. What is Globus Toolkit? Trace its history and background.

2. Explain the architecture and functionality modules of GT4.
3. What are the benefits of features in GT4?
4. What are the commands of GT4?
5. Explian the GT4 Containers for different web services
6. How does GT4 support security?
7. What is the function of GRAM?
8. What are the various standard organisations in Grid Computing?
9. What are the various standards in Grid Computing?
10. List the achievements of GGF.
11. Compare and contrast Globus and Legion.
12. Explain the following
• e-Science grid of DOE
• Eurogrid Project
• Data Grid Project of EU
• Teragrid of NSF
• NASA’s information power grid
• DAMIEN
• PRAGMA
• MOIGRID
13. Explain SOA and its function.
14. What is web service? How do web services work and interact?
15. Explain the role of SOAP, XML in web services.
16. Show all the steps involved in creating web services on client side and server
side using stubs with their architecture.

UNIT VII
1. What is cluster computing? Why is it needed?
2. Define a cluster and explain its basic architecture.
3.What are the various categories of Clusters?
4. List the alternate approaches to parallel computing? What are their relative
merits and demerits?
5. What is COW and NOW? Explain.
6. What is cluster middleware? What are the functionalities of the middleware in a
cluster?
7.Explain the various cluster architectures and configuration for high availability.
8. What are the various layers in single system image (SSI)?
9. Explain the functions of RMS(Remote Management Scheduling).
10.Write short notes on:
PVM,
P-CORBA,
Beowulf Project,
Berkeley NOW Architecture,
11. Explain Oracle Failsafe and Parallel Server Architecture.
12. Explain Condor Architecture.
13. Explain Metacluster or cluster of clusters.
14. Explain the concept of system monitoring.
15. What is directory service? How can you achieve it?
16. How are heterogeneous clusters managed?
17. Explain the various design considerations for the front end of a cluster?

UNIT VIII

1. What are highly available clusters as against high performance clusters?

2. Explain the features and functionality of mission critical and business continuity
applications.
3. Explain the various cluster architectures and configuration for high availability.
4. Explain shared nothing and shared storage architecture.
5. Explain the Functionality of Failover/Recovery clusters.
6. How can failure recovery be achieved?
7. How can faults and errors be detected?
8. List the various performance measures and metrics? Explain each of them.
9. Explain the issues involved in heterogeneous clusters.
10. Explain the features and functions of RMS.
11. Explain the features and functions of JMS.
12. Explain various scheduling policies in a cluster
13. Explain with comparison and contrast between gang scheduling and co-
scheduling.
14.Explain how process migration is achieved in the following systems:
a) NOW
b) MPPS
c) PVM
d) MOSIX
15. What is load balancing in a cluster? What are the various strategies for load
balancing?
16. Why is load sharing required in a cluster?
17. Explain local strategies and global approaches with comparison.
18. Explain the architecture of various models of Beowulf in detail.
19. Explain PARAM series architectures.
20. Explain the features and applications of PARAM Padma.