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1. ****What is Cloud Computing? What are the advantages and disadvantages?

Briefly
describe types of cloud models (NIST model, Cloud Cube model, Deployment models -
Public , Private, Hybrid and Community Clouds, Service models – Infrastructure as a
Service, Platform as a Service, Software as a Service with examples of services/ service
providers, Cloud Reference model). What are the Characteristics of Cloud Computing?
2. **What is Composability? Briefly mention Infrastructure, Platforms, Virtual Appliances,
Communication Protocols, Applications for cloud computing.
3.*** Briefly describe the following:
a. IaaS – Basic concept, Workload, partitioning of virtual private server instances, Pods,
aggregations, silos
b. PaaS – Basic concept, tools and development environment with examples
c. SaaS - Basic concept and characteristics, Open SaaS and SOA, examples of SaaS
platform
d. Identity as a Service (IDaaS)
e. Compliance as a Service (CaaS)
4. **
a. What is Abstraction and Virtualization? Describe types of virtualization (access,
application, CPU, storage), Mobility patterns (P2V, V2V, V2P, P2P, D2C, C2C, C2D,
D2D)
b. What is Load Balancing? Describe Network resources for load balancing, Advanced
load balancing (including Application Delivery Controller and Application Delivery
Network), Give Cloud as an example of use of load balancing with Google.
c. What is Hypervisors? What are Virtual machine technology and types, VMware
vSphere
d. Machine Imaging (including mention of Open Virtualization Format – OVF).
e. How applications are ported in the Cloud (the simple Cloud API and AppZero Virtual
Application appliance)?
5. **
a. Distinction between SaaS and PaaS (knowledge of Salesforce.com and Force.com),
b. Describe Application development using SaaS model
c. Describe Use of PaaS Application frameworks
6. Discuss Google Applications Portfolio – Indexed search, Dark Web, Aggregation and
disintermediation, Productivity applications and service, Adwords, Google Analytics, Google
Translate, a brief discussion on Google Toolkit (including introduction of Google APIs in
brief), major features of Google App Engine service.

7. Describe Amazon Web Service components and services: Amazon Elastic Cloud, Amazon
Simple Storage system, Amazon Elastic Block Store, Amazon SimpleDB and Relational
Database Service

8. Describe Windows Azure platform: Microsoft’s approach, architecture, and main


elements, overview of Windows Azure AppFabric, Content Delivery Network, SQL Azure, and
Windows Live services
9.
Types of services required in implementation – Consulting, Configuration, Customization and
Support. An overview of the features of network management systems and a brief
introduction of related products from large cloud vendors, Monitoring of an entire cloud
computing deployment stack – an overview with mention of some products, Lifecycle
management of cloud services (six stages of lifecycle)
10. Concepts of Cloud Security
Describe Cloud security concerns, Security boundary, Security service boundary
Overview of security mapping Security of data: Brokered cloud storage access, Storage
location and tenancy, encryption, and auditing and compliance, Identity management
(awareness of Identity protocol standards)
11. **Service Oriented Architecture: Basic concepts of message-based transactions,
Protocol stack for an SOA architecture, Event-driven SOA, Enterprise Service Bus, Service
catalogs
12. Applications in the Cloud: Concepts of cloud transactions, functionality mapping,
Application attributes, Cloud service attributes, System abstraction and Cloud Bursting,
Applications and Cloud APIs
13. Cloud-based Storage: Cloud storage definition – Manned and Unmanned
14. Webmail Services: Cloud mail services including Google Gmail, Mail2Web, Windows Live
Hotmail, Yahoo mail, concepts of Syndication services

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