Cloud Computing | Week 1

Cloud Computing week 1 Assignment 1 Answers

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Q1. Which of the following is a common property of distributed computing?
A) Centralized control
B) Fault tolerance
C) Single point of failure
D) Limited scalability

Q2. Peer-to-Peer computing resembles truly distributed applications.
A) True
B) False

Q3. Which of the following application(s) uses grid computing?
A) Reactor Applications
B) Air conditioning
C) Crystallography
D) Steganography

Q4. Which of the following is(are) a key component(s) of cluster computing?
A) Parallel programming environment
B) Single central processing unit
C) Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP)
D) Node affinity

Q5. Utility computing is a ___ model, in which a service provider makes computing resources and _ available to the customer.
A) service-provisioning, infrastructure management
B) infrastructure management, service-provisioning
C) cloud computing, resource management
D) service-provisioning, resource management

Q6. Utility computing encapsulates the following characteristic(s)
A) Mobility amalgamation
B) Pay-per-use pricing business model
C) No impact on resource utilization
D) None of above

Q7. In utility computing, the payment model differs for different customers based on scale and payment frequency alone.
A) True
B) False

Q8. What are the different characteristic(s) of cloud computing?
A) Virtualization
B) Service disagreement
C) Service orientated
D) Scalability

Q9. Google Spreadsheet is an example of :
A) Platform as a Service or PaaS
B) Software as a Service or SaaS
C) Function as a Service of FaaS
D) Infrastructure as a Service or Iaas

Q10. In the case of the client-server model: Statement (i) Virtualization is a core concept; Statement (ii) system can scale infinitely
A) Only Statement (i) is correct
B) Only Statement (ii) is correct
C) Both Statements (i) and (ii) are correct
D) None of the statements is correct