ITEC4113 - Cloud Computing

MCQ’s

 What type of computing technology refers to services and applications that

typically run on a distributed network through virtualized resources?
a) Distributed Computing
b) Cloud Computing
c) Soft Computing
d) Parallel Computing

 Which one of the following options can be considered as the Cloud?

a) Hadoop
b) Intranet
c) Web Applications
d) All of the mentioned

 Cloud computing is a kind of abstraction which is based on the notion of

combining physical resources and represents them as _______resources to
users.
a) Real
b) Cloud
c) Virtual
d) none of the mentioned
 Which of the following has many features of that is now known as cloud
computing?
a) Web Service
b) Software
c) Internet
d) All of the mentioned

 Which one of the following cloud concepts is related to sharing and pooling
the resources?
a) Polymorphism
b) Virtualization
c) Abstraction
d) None of the mentioned

 Which one of the following statements is not true?

a) The popularization of the Internet actually enabled most cloud computing
systems.
b) Cloud computing makes the long-held dream of utility as a payment possible for
you, with an infinitely scalable, universally available system, pay what you use.
c) Soft computing addresses a real paradigm in the way in which the system is
deployed.
d) All of the mentioned
 Which one of the following can be considered as a utility is a dream that
dates from the beginning of the computing industry itself?
a) Computing
b) Model
c) Software
d) All of the mentioned

 Which of the following is an essential concept related to Cloud?

a) Reliability
b) Abstraction
c) Productivity
d) All of the mentioned

 Which one of the following is Cloud Platform by Amazon?

a) Azure
b) AWS
c) Cloudera
d) All of the mentioned

 Which of the following statement is not true?

a) Through cloud computing, one can begin with very small and become big in a
rapid manner.
b) All applications benefit from deployment in the Cloud.
c) Cloud computing is revolutionary, even though the technology it is built on is
evolutionary.
d) None of the mentioned
 In the Planning Phase, which of the following is the correct step for
performing the analysis?
a) Cloud Computing Value Proposition
b) Cloud Computing Strategy Planning
c) Both A and B
d) Business Architecture Development

 In which one of the following, a strategy record or Document is created

respectively to the events, conditions a user may face while applying cloud
computing mode.
a) Cloud Computing Value Proposition
b) Cloud Computing Strategy Planning
c) Planning Phase
d) Business Architecture Development

 What is Business Architecture Development?

a) We recognize the risks that might be caused by cloud computing application from
a business perspective.
b) We identify the applications that support the business processes and the
technologies required to support enterprise applications and data systems.
c) We formulate all kinds of plans that are required to transform the current business
to cloud computing modes.
d) None of the above
 Which one of the following refers to the non-functional requirements like
disaster recovery, security, reliability, etc.
a) Service Development
b) Quality of service
c) Plan Development
d) Technical Service

 Which one of the following is a phase of the Deployment process?

a) Selecting Cloud Computing Provider
b) IT Architecture Development
c) Business Architecture Development
d) Transformation Plan Development

 This phase involves selecting a cloud provider based on the Service Level
Agreement (SLA), which defines the level of service the provider receives.
a) Maintenance and Technical Service
b) Selecting Cloud Computing Provider
c) Both A and B
d) None of the above

 In which one of the following phases, IT Architecture Development came?

a) Strategy Phase
b) Planning Phase
c) Deployment Phase
d) Development Phase
 Which of the model involves the special types of services that users can
access on a Cloud Computing platform?
a) Service
b) Planning
c) Deployment
d) Application

 Which one of the following is related to the services provided by Cloud?

a) Sourcing
b) Ownership
c) Reliability
d) PaaS

 How many phases are present in Cloud Computing Planning?

a) 2
b) 3
c) 4
d) 5

 Cloud computing architecture is a combination of?

a) Service-oriented architecture and grid computing
b) Utility computing and event-driven architecture.
c) Service-oriented architecture and event-driven architecture.
d) Virtualization and event-driven architecture.
 In how many parts we can broadly divide the architecture of the Cloud?
a) 4
b) 3
c) 2
d) 5

 Which one of the following refers to the user's part of the Cloud Computing
system?
a) Back End
b) Management
c) Infrastructure
d) Front End

 Which one of the following can be considered as the example of the Front-
end?
a) Web Browser
b) Google Compute Engine
c) Cisco Metapod
d) Amazon Web Services

 By whom is the backend commonly used?

a) Client
b) User
c) Stockholders
d) Service provider
 Which of the following is one of the backend’ s built-in components of cloud
computing?
a) Security
b) Application
c) Storage
d) Service

 Which of the following provides the Graphic User Interface (GUI) for
interaction with the cloud?
a) Client
b) Client Infrastructure
c) Application
d) Server

 Which one of the following a technology works behind the cloud computing
platform?
a) Virtualization
b) SOA
c) Grid Computing
d) All of the above
 Which one of the following is a kind of technique that allows sharing the
single physical instance of an application or the resources among multiple
organizations/customers?
a) Virtualization
b) Service-Oriented Architecture
c) Grid Computing
d) Utility Computing

 Which one of the following statements is true about the Virtualization?

a) It provides a logical name for a physical resource, and on-demand provides an
indicator of that physical resource.
b) In Virtualization, we analyze the strategy related problems that customers may
face.
c) In Virtualization, it is necessary to compile the Multitenant properly.
d) All of the above

 In Virtualization, which architecture provides the virtual isolation between

the several tenants?
a) IT Architecture
b) Multitenant
c) Deployment
d) Business Architecture
 On which one of the following utility computing is based?
a) Grid Computing Model
b) SOA Model
c) virtual isolation Model
d) Pay-per-Use model

 Which one of the following statements is true about the Service-Oriented

Architecture?
a) It is possible to exchange data between applications from different vendors
without using additional programming.
b) It provides computational resources on-demand as a metered service.
c) Service-Oriented Architecture allows using the application as a service for other
applications.
d) Both A and C

 In Grid Computing, which types of computer resources are there?

a) Heterogeneous dispersed.
b) Geographically dispersed.
c) Both A and B
d) None of the above

 Managed IT services are based on the concept of which one of the following?
a) Virtualization
b) Utility Computing
c) Grid Computing
d) SOA
 Which one of the following refers to the Distributed Computing, in which
several sets of computers distributed on multiple geographical locations and
are connected with each other to achieve a common goal?
a) Virtualization
b) SOA
c) Grid Computing
d) Utility Computing

 Which one of the following statements is true about Grid Computing?

a) Pieces combine small tasks into complex tasks
b) The subscription tier plays an important role in grid computing.
c) Breaks complex tasks into small operations
d) Both A and C

 Which one of the following given programs provides the isolation

(abstraction) and partitioning?
a) System hypervisor
b) Software hypervisor
c) Hardware hypervisor
d) Virtualization hypervisor

 On which one of the following hypervisors runs directly on the underlying

host system, it is also known as________?
a) Bare metal hypervisor
b) Hosted Hypervisor
c) Native Hypervisor
d) Both A and C
 Which of the following behaves like the monitor's entry point and reroutes
the instructions of the virtual machine?
a) Dispatcher
b) Allocator
c) Interpreter
d) Both A and B

 Which one of the following is also known as a Hypervisor?

a) VMA
b) VMM
c) VMS
d) VMR

 How many kinds of Hypervisor are there?

a) 4
b) 3
c) 2
d) 5

 Which one of the following is not an example of the Type1-Hypervisor?

a) VMware ESXi
b) Citrix XenServer
c) Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor
d) VMware Player
 How many main modules are needed to coordinate in order to emulate the
underlying hardware?
a) 3
b) 2
c) 4
d) 5

 Which one of the following is used to call the allocator?

a) INTERPRETER
b) TYPE-2 Hypervisor
c) Both A and B
d) DISPATCHER

 The Parallels Desktop can be considered as the example of which of the

following?
a) TYPE-2 Hypervisor
b) DISPATCHER
c) TYPE-1 Hypervisor
d) INTERPRETER
 Which one of the following statements is not true?
a) Whenever a command begins a process, immediately the process virtual machine
gets instantiated.
b) Usually, the guest operating systems are mores faster in full virtualization as
compared to other virtualization schemes.
c) It is necessary for the full virtualization that the host OS (Operating System)
offers a Virtual Machine Interface for the guest operating system by which the guest
operating system can access the hardware through the host VM.
d) All of the above

 Which of the following statements is not true?

a) Load balancing virtualizes systems and resources by mapping a logical address to
a physical address
b) Multiple instances of various Google applications are running on different hosts
c) Google uses hardware virtualization
d) All of the above

 Which one of the following can be considered as the example of the Type2
Virtual Machine monitors?
a) KVM
b) Microsoft Hyper V
c) Parallels Desktop
d) All of the above
 Which one of the following is a type of software that supports the virtual
machine?
a) Kernel
b) Hypervisor
c) VMM
d) Both B and C

 Which one of the following runs on Xen Hypervisor?

a) Azure
b) AWS EC2
c) AWS EC3
d) All of the above

 Which one of the following is the type of a service that manages and creates
virtual network interfaces?
a) VMware vStorage
b) Application services
c) VMware vCompute
d) VMware vNetwork

 In which one of the following, the virtual machine simulates hardware,

through which it can be independent of the underlying system hardware?
a) Para-virtualization
b) Full virtualization
c) Emulation
d) None of the above
 Which one of the following will be the host operating system for Windows
Server?
a) VirtualLogix VLX
b) Microsoft Hyper-V
c) Xen
d) All of the above

 In Which Type of VM, full virtualization can be possible?

a) Type4
b) Type2
c) Type3
d) Type1

 Which one of the following can be considered as another name of Virtual

Machine?
a) Software virtual machine
b) Real machine
c) process virtual machine
d) Virtualization hypervisor

 Identify the deployment model among the following.

Private
Public
Hybrid
All of the above
 Choose among the following which is related to services provided by the
cloud.
a) Reliability
b) Sourcing
c) Ownership
d) AaaS

 Choose the correct IaaS provider among the following.

a) EC2
b) EC1
c) EC10
d) Hybrid

 Identify among the components which are known as a hypervisor.

a) VMC
b) VMM
c) VC
d) All of the above

 Choose the correct relationship of cloud services to customers.

a) One-One
b) One-Many
c) Many-one
d) Many-Many
 Which of the following refers to network or internet?
a) Cloud
b) CRM
c) Cloud computing
d) Computing

 State whether true or false: Is google docs a type of cloud computing?

a) True
b) False
c) Neither
d) None of the Above

 What does the term “elasticity” in cloud computing refer to?

a) Ability to scale down
b) Parallel
c) Ability to scale up
d) Both a and c are correct

 Identify among the following, which are examples of IaaS cloud computing
a) Linode
b) Cisco meta cloud
c) Digital ocean
d) All of the above
 Identify among the following, which are examples of SaaS cloud computing.
a) Dropbox
b) Salesforce
c) Google workshop
d) All of the above

 Identify among the following, which are examples of PaaS cloud computing
a) Heroku
b) Google App Engine
c) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
d) All of the above

 Choose among the following, which are the characteristics of IaaS.

a) Highly scalable
b) Flexible and dynamic platform
c) Facilitates hardware access to many users
d) All of the above

 Choose whether true or false: To balance load, DNS is a network resource.

a) True
b) False
c) Neither
d) None of the Above
 In cloud computing, the client is on which end.
a) Backend
b) Frontend
c) Depends
d) Both a and b

 In which year was Google Compute Engine released?

a) 2012
b) 2009
c) 2015
d) 2006

 What is the most important concern of cloud computing?

a) Cost
b) Space
c) Security
d) Platform

 Total types of cloud computing services are?

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4