DHANALAKSHMI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

CS6703 GRID AND CLOUD COMPUTING
IV YEAR/ VII SEMESTER
2 MARK QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
UNIT I - INTRODUCTION

1. What is Grid Computing?

Grid computing is a processor architecture that combines computer resources from

various domains to reach a main objective. In grid computing, the computers on the
network can work on a task together, thus functioning as a supercomputer.

2. What is QOS?

Grid computing system is the ability to provide the quality of service requirements necessary
for the end-user community. QOS provided by the grid like performance, availability,
management aspects, business value and flexibility in pricing.

3. What are the derivatives of grid computing?

There are 8 derivatives of grid computing. They are as follows:
a) Compute grid
b) Data grid
c) Science grid
d) Access grid
e) Knowledge grid
f) Cluster grid
g) Terra grid
h) Commodity grid

4. What are the features of data grids?

The ability to integrate multiple distributed, heterogeneous and independently

managed data sources.
The ability to provide data catching and/or replication mechanisms to minimize
network traffic.
The ability to provide necessary data discovery mechanisms, which allow the user to find
data based on characteristics of the data.

5. Define – Cloud Computing.

Cloud computing, often referred to as simply “the cloud,” is the delivery of on-demand
computing resources—everything from applications to data centers—over the Internet on a
pay-for-use basis. Storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead
of your computer's hard drive
6. What is business on demand?

Business On Demand is not just about utility computing as it has a much

broader set of ideas about the transformation of business practices, process
transformation, and technology implementations.
The essential characteristics of on-demand businesses are responsiveness to
the dynamics of business, adapting to variable cost structures, focusing on core
business competency, and resiliency for consistent availability.

7. What are the facilities provided by virtual organization?

The formation of virtual task forces, or groups, to solve specific problems associated
with the virtual organization.
The dynamic provisioning and management capabilities of the resource required
meeting the SLA’s.

8. What are the properties of Cloud Computing?

There are six key properties of cloud computing: Cloud computing is
 user-centric
 task-centric
 powerful
 accessible
 intelligent
 programmable

9. Sketch the architecture of Cloud.

10. What are the types of Cloud service development?
 Software as a Service
 Platform as a Service
 Web Services
 On-Demand Computing

11. What is meant by scheduler?

Schedulers are types of applications responsible for the management of jobs,

such as allocating resources needed for any specific job, partitioning of jobs to schedule
parallel execution of tasks, data management, event correlation, and service-level
management capabilities.

12. What is meant by resource broker?

Resource broker provides pairing services between the service requester and
the service provider. This pairing enables the selection of best available resources from
the service provider for the execution of a specific task.

13. What is load balancing?

Load balancing is concerned with the integrating the system in order to

avoid processing delays and over-commitment of resources. It involves partitioning of
jobs, identifying the resources and queuing the jobs.

14. What is grid infrastructure?

Grid infrastructure forms the core foundation for successful grid

applications. This infrastructure is a complex combination of number of capabilities
and resources identified for the specific problem and environment being addressed.

15. Define – Distributed Computing.

Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed

systems. A distributed system is a software system in which components located on
networked computers communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages. The
components interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal.
 UNIT II - GRID SERVICES

1. Define – OSGI.

Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) is a set of standards defining the way in which
information is shared among diverse components of large, heterogeneous grid systems. In
this context, a grid system is a scalable wide area network (WAN) that supports resource
sharing and distribution. OGSA is a trademark of the Open Grid Forum.

2. Define – OSGA.

The Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) was published by the Global Grid Forum
(GGF) as a proposed recommendation in June 2003.[1] It was intended to provide an
infrastructure layer for the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA). OGSI takes the
statelessness issues (along with others) into account by essentially extending Web
services to accommodate grid computing resources that are both transient and stateful.

3. Define – Peer to Peer Computing.

Peer to Peer computing is a relatively new computing discipline in the realm of distributed
computing. P2P system defines collaboration among a larger number of individuals and/or
organizations, with a limited set of security requirements and a less complex resource-
sharing topology.

4. What is Dynamic Accounting System?

DAS provides the following enhanced categories of accounting functionality to the IPG
community:
 Allows a grid user to request access to a local resource via the presentation of
grid credentials
 Determines and grants the appropriate authorizations for a user to access a local
resource without requiring a preexisting account on the resource to govern local
authorizations.

5. Define – SOA.

A service-oriented architecture is intended to define loosely coupled and interoperable

services/applications, and to define a process for integrating these interoperable
components.
6. What are the major goals of OSGA?

 Identify the use cases that can drive the OGSA platform components.
 Identify and define the core OGSA platform components.
 Define hosting and platform specific bindings.
 Define resource models and resource profiles with interoperable solutions.

7. What are the layers available in OGSA architectural organizations?

 Native platform services and transport mechanisms.

 OGSA hosting environment.
 OGSA transport and security.
 OGSA infrastructure (OGSI).
 OGSA basic services (meta-OS and domain services)

8. What is meant by grid infrastructure?

Grid infrastructure is a complex combination of a number of capabilities and resources

identified for the specific problem and environment being addressed. It forms the core
foundations for successful grid applications.

9. List some grid computing toolkits and frameworks?

 Globus Toolkit
 Globus Resource Allocation Manager(GRAM)
 Grid Security Infrastructure(GSI)
 Information Services
 Legion
 Condor and Condor-G
 NIMROD
 UNICORE
 NMI

10. Define - GRAM.

GRAM provides resource allocation, process creation, monitoring, and management

services. The most common use of GRAM is the remote job submission and control
facility. GRAM simplifies the use of remote systems.

11. What is the role of the grid computing organization?

 Organizations developing grid standards and best practices guidelines.

 Organizations developing grid computing toolkits, frameworks and middleware solutions.
 Organizations building and using grid - based solutions to solve their computing, data,
and network requirements.
 Organizations working to adopt grid concepts into commercial products, via utility
computing and business on demand computing.
12. What are the different layers of grid architecture?

 Fabric Layer: Interface to local resources

 Connectivity Layer: Manages Communications
 Collective Layer: Coordinating Multiple Resources
 Application Layer: User Defined Application.

13. What are the fundamental components of SOAP specification?

 An envelope that defines a framework for describing message structure.

 A set of encoding rules for expressing instances of application defined data types
 A convention for representing remote procedure (RPC) and responses.
 A set of rules for using SOAP with HTTP.
 Message exchange patterns (MEP) such as request-response, one-way and peer-to-
peer conversations.

14. Define - SOAP.

SOAP is a simple and lightweight XML-based mechanism for creating structured data
packages that can be exchanged between network applications. SOAP provides a simple
enveloping mechanism and is proven in being able to work with existing networking
services technologies such as HHTP.SOAP is also flexible and extensible. SOAP is based
on the fact that it builds upon the XML info set.

15. Define WSDL.

WSDL is an XML Info set based document, which provides a model and XML format for
describe web services. This enables services to be described and enables the client to
consume these services in a standard way without knowing much on the lower level
protocol exchange binding including SOAP and HTTP. This high level abstraction on the
service limits human interaction and enables the automatic generation of proxies for web
services, and these proxies can be static or dynamic. It allows both document and RPC -
oriented messages.

UNIT III - VIRTUALIZATION

1. What is the working principle of Cloud Computing?

The cloud is a collection of computers and servers that are publicly accessible via the
This hardware is typically owned and operated by a third party on a consolidated basis
in one or more data center locations. The machines can run any combination of
operating systems.
2. What is Virtualization?

Virtualization is a foundational element of cloud computing and helps deliver on the

value of cloud computing," Adams said. "Cloud computing is the delivery of shared
computing resources, software or data — as a service and on-demand through the
Internet.

3. Define Cloud services with example.

Any web-based application or service offered via cloud computing is called a cloud
Cloud services can include anything from calendar and contact applications to word
processing and presentations.

4. What are the types of Cloud service development?

 Software as a Service
 Platform as a Service
 Infrastructure as a Service

5. Explain cloud provider and cloud broker?

Cloud Provider: Is a company that offers some component of cloud computing typically
infrastructure as a service, software as a Service or Platform as a Service. It is something
referred as CSP.
Cloud Broker: It is a third party individual or business that act as an intermediary between
the purchase of cloud computing service and sellers of that service.

6. Define - Private Cloud.

The private cloud is built within the domain of an intranet owned by a single organization.
Therefore, they are client owned and managed. Their access is limited to the owning clients
and their partners. Their deployment was not meant to sell capacity over the Internet
through publicly accessible interfaces. Private clouds give local users a flexible and agile
private infrastructure to run service workloads within their administrative domains.

7. Define - Public Cloud.

A public cloud is built over the Internet, which can be accessed by any user who has paid
for the service. Public clouds are owned by service providers. They are accessed by
subscription. Many companies have built public clouds, namely Google App Engine,
Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM Blue Cloud, and Salesforce Force.com. These are
commercial providers that offer a publicly accessible remote interface for creating and
managing VM instances within their proprietary infrastructure.
8. Define - Hybrid Cloud.

A hybrid cloud is built with both public and private clouds; Private clouds can also support
a hybrid cloud model by supplementing local infrastructure with computing capacity from
an external public cloud. For example, the research compute cloud (RC2) is a private cloud
built by IBM.

9. Define anything-as-a-service?
Providing services to the client on the basis on meeting their demands at some pay per use cost
such as data storage as a service, network as a service, communication as a service etc. It is
generally denoted as anything as a service (XaaS).

10. What is mean by SaaS?

The software as a service refers to browser initiated application software over thousands of paid
customer. The SaaS model applies to business process industry application, consumer relationship
management (CRM), Enterprise resource Planning (ERP), Human Resources (HR) and
collaborative application.

11. What is mean by IaaS?

The Infrastructure as a Service model puts together the infrastructure demanded by the user namely
servers, storage, network and the data center fabric. The user can deploy and run on multiple VM’s
running guest OS on specific application.

12. Explain PaaS?

The Platform as a Service model enables the user to deploy user built applications onto a
virtualized cloud platform. It includes middleware, database, development tools and some runtime
support such as web2.0 and java. It includes both hardware and software integrated with specific
programming interface.

13. List out the advantages of Cloud Computing.

• Lower IT Infrastructure Costs

• Fewer Maintenance Issues
• Lower Software Costs
• Instant Software Updates
• Increased Computing Power
• Unlimited Storage Capacity
• Increased Data Safety
• Improved Compatibility Between Operating Systems
• Improved Document Format Compatibility
• Easier Group Collaboration
• Universal Access to Documents
 • Latest Version Availability
• Removes the Tether to Specific Devices

14. List out the disadvantages of Cloud Computing.

• Requires a Constant Internet Connection

• Doesn’t Work Well with Low-Speed Connections
• Can Be Slow
• Features Might Be Limited
• Stored Data Might Not Be Secure
• If the Cloud Loses Your Data, You’re Screwed

15. What is Hypervisor?

A hypervisor or virtual machine monitor (VMM) is a piece of computer software, firmware or

hardware that creates and runs virtual machines. A computer on which a hypervisor is running one
or more virtual machines is defined as a host machine. Each virtual machine is called a guest
machine.

16. What are the types of hypervisor?

There are two types of hypervisors:

 Type 1 (bare-metal)

 Type 2 (hosted)
Type 1 hypervisors run directly on the system hardware. They are often referred to as a
"native" or "bare metal" or "embedded" hypervisors in vendor literature.
Type 2 hypervisors run on a host operating system. When the virtualization movement first
began to take off, Type 2 hypervisors were most popular. Administrators could buy the
software and install it on a server they already had.

UNIT IV - PROGRAMMING MODEL

1. What is Hadoop development?

Apache Hadoop is an open-source software framework written in Java for distributed
storage and distributed processing of very large data sets on computer clusters built from
commodity hardware.
2. Define- GT4.
Globus Toolkit 4 is a open – source toolkit developed to build grids. It provides full
capabilities for sharing computing power and databases. Usage of Globus is extensive
throughout the scientific community within NSF, DOE, DARPHA, IBM, NASA, and
Microsoft projects.

3. Define- Map Reduce Computation.

MapReduce is designed to continue to work in the face of system failures. When a job is
running, MapReduce monitors progress of each of the servers participating in the job. If
one of them is slow in returning an answer or fails before completing its work, MapReduce
automatically starts another instance of that task on another server that has a copy of the
data. The complexity of the error handling mechanism is completely hidden from the
programmer

4. What are the characteristics of Cloud Programming Model?

 Cost model
 Scalability
 Fault-tolerance
 Support for specific services
 Control model
 Data model
 Synchronization mode
5. What are the phases in MapReduce Programming Model?
Map Phase:
Processes input key/value pair
Produces set of intermediate pair
map (in_key, in_value) -> list(out_key, interm_value)

Reduce Phase:
Combines all intermediate values for a given key
Produces a set of merged output values
reduce(out_key, list(interm_value)) -> list(out_value)

6. Define- Hadoop Scheduler.

Job divided into several independent tasks executed in parallel

 The input file is split into chunks of 64 / 128 MB
 Each chunk is assigned to a map task
 Reduce task aggregate the output of the map tasks

7. Define- HDFS.

Hadoop File System was developed using distributed file system design. It is run on
commodity hardware. Unlike other distributed systems, HDFS is highly fault tolerant and
designed using low-cost hardware. HDFS holds very large amount of data and provides
easier access. To store such huge data, the files are stored across multiple machines.

8. What are the features of HDFS?

 It is suitable for the distributed storage and processing.

 Hadoop provides a command interface to interact with HDFS.

 The built-in servers of name-node and data-node help users to easily check the
status of cluster.

 Streaming access to data in the file system.

 HDFS provides file permissions and authentication.

9. Sketch the HDFS Architecture.

10. What is Cloud Dataflow Programming Model?

The Dataflow programming model is designed to simplify the mechanics of large-scale data
processing. When you program with a Dataflow SDK, you are essentially creating a data
processing job to be executed by one of the Cloud Dataflow runner services. This model
lets you concentrate on the logical composition of your data processing job, rather than the
physical orchestration of parallel processing. You can focus on what you need your job to
do instead of exactly how that job gets executed.

11. What is Java Cloud service?

Oracle Java Cloud Service is a subscription-based, self-service, reliable, scalable, and
elastic enterprise-grade cloud platform that enables businesses to securely develop and
deploy Java applications.
 Dedicated virtual machines for running your entire WebLogic Server cluster.
 Pre-configured WebLogic Server software, with your choice of the 11g or 12c
version.
 Choice of virtual machine size (virtual cores, memory), as well as the size of the
WebLogic cluster.
 Self-managed, with fully automated cloud tooling for administrative and lifecycle
operations, such as patching, scaling, and backup.
 Fully automated, one-click, point-in-time restore for the entire service.
12. What is AIM?

The most-used instant messaging program is AOL Instant Messenger (www.aim.com), also
known as AIM. AIM supports all manner of special features in addition to basic text
messaging. The users get file sharing, RSS feeds, group chats, ability to text message to and
from mobile phones, voice chat, video chat, and even a mobile client and can also enhance
the basic AIM experience with a variety of official and user-created plug-ins.

13. Define- Multi-tenancy.

Multi-tenancy can be defined as a principle in software architecture, where a single instance

of a vendor’s offering runs on the vendor’s servers, serving multiple client organizations
(tenants). Often these tenants will pay a fee for this.
In practice, multi-tenancy allows a cloud provider to provide a service to organizations that
have users of their own. Of course, in certain cases the tenant could have only 1 user; the
important point is that the cloud provider has taken the tenant concept into account and
provided e.g. access based on the tenant concept, billing based on the tenant concept, etc.

14. Define- GFS.

Google File System (GFS or GoogleFS) is a proprietary distributed file system developed
by Google for its own use. It is designed to provide efficient, reliable access to data using
large clusters of commodity hardware. A new version of the Google File System is
codenamed Colossus which was released in 2010.
15. Define- OGF.
OGF is an open global community committed to driving the rapid evolution and adoption
of modern advanced applied distributed computing, including cloud, grid and associated
storage, networking and workflow methods. OGF is focused on developing and promoting
innovative scalable techniques, applications and infrastructures to improve productivity in
the enterprise and within the international research, science and business communities

UNIT V - SECURITY
1. What are the functions in Grid Security Model?
 Multiple security mechanisms
 Dynamic creation of services
  Dynamic establishment of trust domains

2. What are OGSA security services?

 Credential processing service
 Authorization service
 Credential Conversion service
 Identity Mapping service
 Audit

3. What are the high-level services included in Globas toolkit?

 Globus Resource Allocation Manager(GRAM)
 Grid Security Infrastructure(GSI)
 Information Services

4. What are the most common Gt3 handlers?

 Authentication service Hanlder
 WS Security Handler
 Authorization Handler
 X509 Sing Handler
 GSS Handler

5. Define- GSI.

The Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI), formerly called the Globus Security
Infrastructure, is a specification for secret, tamper-proof, delegatable communication
between software in a grid computing environment. Secure, authenticatable
communication is enabled using asymmetric encryption.

6. What are the high level grid security requirement aspects?

 Authentication
 Authorization
 Delegation
 Message integrity
 Single logon
 Confidentiality
 Privacy
 Policy exchange
 Credential life span and renewal
  Secure logging
 Assurance
 Manageability

7. What is CISCO connected grid security principles?

Cisco integrates security as a fundamental building block of any network architecture—

whether for the field area network, transmission and substation network, or the intra-control
center tier. The primary principles behind Cisco Connected Grid security include:
 Access control
 Data integrity, confidentiality, and privacy
 Threat detection and mitigation
 Device and platform integrity

8. What are the risks of storing data in the Cloud?

 Reliability
 Security
 User error
 Access problems

9. What are the factors to identify the threats in cloud?

 Failures in Provider Security

 Attacks by Other Customers
 Availability and Reliability Issues
 Legal and Regulatory Issues
 Perimeter Security Model Broken
 Integrating Provider and Customer Security Systems

10. What are the phases in data security life cycle?

Create: Creation is the generation of new digital content, or the alteration/updating of
existing content.
Store: Storing is the act committing the digital data to some sort of storage repository, and
typically occurs nearly simultaneously with creation.
Use: Data is viewed, processed, or otherwise used in some sort of activity.
Share: Information is made accessible to others, such as between users, to customers, and
to partners
Archive: Data leaves active use and enters long-term storage.
Destroy: Data is permanently destroyed using physical or digital means (e.g.,
cryptoshredding).

11. Define- DLP.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is defined as: Products that, based on central policies, identify,
monitor, and protect data at rest, in motion, and in use, through deep content analysis.

DLP is typically used for content discovery and to monitor data in motion using the
following options:

● Dedicated appliance/server: Standard hardware placed at a network chokepoint

between the cloud environment and the rest of the network/Internet., or within
different cloud segments.
● Virtual appliance
● Endpoint agent
● Hypervisor-agent: The DLP agent is embedded or accessed at the hypervisor level,
as opposed to running in the instance.

12. What is PaaS Encryption?

Since PaaS is so diverse, the following list may not cover all potential options:

● Client/application encryption: Data is encrypted in the PaaS application, or the

client accessing the platform.
● Database encryption: Data is encrypted in the database using encryption built in
and supported by the database platform.
● Proxy encryption: Data passes through an encryption proxy before being sent to the
platform.

13. Define- Database Activity Monitoring (DAM).

Database Activity Monitors capture and record, at a minimum, all Structured Query
Language (SQL) activity in real time or near real time, including database administrator
activity, across multiple database platforms; and can generate alerts on policy violations.
 UNIT - III

1. What are the two commonly understood SOA architecture?

The two commonly understood SOA architecture are web and web services.

2. Define SOA.

A service-oriented architecture is intended to define loosely coupled and

interoperable services/applications, and to define a process for integrating these
interoperable components.

3. Define web service agents.

Providing open standards-based designs for interoperable messaging
across Multiple vendors.

4. What are the fundamental components of SOAP specification?

An envelope that defines a framework for describing message structure

A set of encoding rules for expressing instances of application-defined data
types A convention for representing remote procedure calls and responses
A set of rules for using SOAP with HTTP
Message exchange patterns(MEP) such as request-response, one way, and
peer-to-peer conversations

5. What are the features of SOAP?

A unique name used to identify the feature and its properties. This
enables us to identify whether a SOAP node supports a specific feature.
A set of properties associated with the feature that can be used to
control, constrain, or identify a feature.

6. What are the mechanisms available to implement the features of SOAP?

SOAP header blocks

SOAP binding
protocol

7. Write notes on Message exchange pattern.

8.
 One special type of SOAP feature is the MEP. A SOAP MEP is a template
that establishes a pattern for the exchange of messages between SOAP nodes. Some
examples of MEPs include request/response, one-way, peer-to-peer conversation, and
so on.

8. What is the vision behind global XML ARCHITECTURE?

Providing standards-based and interoperable protocol definitions

Reducing development efforts by separating infrastructure protocols
from applications and transport protocols
Providing open standards-based designs for interoperable messaging
across multiple vendors.

9.What are the components available in service model?

Policy
expression
Policy subject
Policy assertion
Policy
attachment

10. Write notes on WS-Trust

The WS-Trust deals with different aspects of secure token services,

including how to request a token and issuing of token in a trusted manner. This
issuance of tokens must be secure and built on top of WS-Security. The secure token
services can be a contact point for secure negotiation through delegation and
impersonation.

11. Write notes on WS –Federation

WS-Federation defines mechanisms that are used to enable identity,

attribute, authentication, and authorization federation across different trust
environments.

12. What are the classifications of service state management?

The classifications of service state management are

i) interaction aware state
ii) application aware state
13. Name some representational use cases from OGSA architecture working
group?

Commercial Data Center (Commercial

grid) National Fusion Collaboratory
(Science grid)
Online Media and Entertainment (Commercial grid)
14. Who are the actors in CDC?

Grid
Administrator IT
system integrator
IT business
activity

15. Mention the scenarios in CDC?

Multiple in-house systems support within the

enterprise. Time-constrained commercial campaign.
Disaster recovery
Global load balancing

16. What are the functional requirements of CDC on OGSA?

Discovery of the available resources.

Scheduling of resources for specific
tasks. Provisioning of resources based
on need. Use static and dynamic
policies.

17. What are the expression evaluators supported in GT3?

Service Data Name Evaluator.

Service Data Name Set Evaluator.
Service Data Name Delete
Evaluator. Service Data XPath
Evaluator.

18. What are the major goals of OGSA?

Identify the use cases that can drive the OGSA platform
components. Identify and define the core OGSA platform
components.
Define hosting and platform specific bindings.
Define resource models and resource profiles with interoperable solutions.

19. What are the more specific goals of OGSA?

Facilitating distributed resource management across heterogeneous

platforms Providing seamless quantity of service delivery.
 Providing common infrastructure building blocks to avoid “Stove pipe
solutions towers”.
Open and published interfaces and messages.

20. What are the main purposes of use case defined by OGSA?

To identify and define core OGSA platform functionalities.

To define core platform components based on the functionality requirements.

To define the high level requirements on those core components and identify
their interrelationship.

21. Name some representational use cases from OGSA architecture working
group?

Commercial Data Center (Commercial

grid) National Fusion Collaboratory
(Science grid)
Online Media and Entertainment (Commercial grid)

22. Who are the actors in CDC?

Grid
Administrator IT
system integrator
IT business
activity

23. Mention the scenarios in CDC?

Multiple in-house systems support within the

enterprise. Time-constrained commercial campaign.
Disaster recovery
Global load balancing

24. What are the functional requirements of CDC on OGSA?

Discovery of the available resources.

Scheduling of resources for specific
tasks. Provisioning of resources based
on need. Use static and dynamic
policies.
25. Who are the actors in NFC?

Scientists
They are the customers of the fusion code provided by the fusion service
provider.

26. Mention the scenarios in NFC?

A remote client can run code on a remote site within a time frame.
A monitoring agent starts and watches the submitted job for service-level
agreement (SLA) validation.
Integrate with external applications and resources for data and/or code
execution and flexible delegation of rights.

27. What are the functional requirements of NFC on OGSA?

 Discovery of available resources.
Workflow management for job distribution across
resources. Scheduling of service tasks.
Load balancing to manage
workloads. Network transport
management.

28. Who are the actors in Online Media and Environment?

A customer who consumes the entertainment

content. A service provider who hosts the
entertainment content. A publisher who offers the
entertainment content.
A developer who consumes the entertainment content.

29. Mention the scenarios in Online Media and Environment?

A consumer, for example a game player, accesses the game portal and
authenticates with the game server and starts the game.
There are several providers that are working in concert to provide the
required service for the consumer.
The content provider or media studio provides the content for the customer
experience.

30. What are the functional requirements of Online Media and Environment?

Discovering the
resources. Instantiating
new service.
Monitoring resource usage and
availability. Servicing lifecycle and
change management.

31. What are the layers available in OGSA architectural organizations?

Native platform services and transport

mechanisms. OGSA hosting environment.
OGSA transport and
security. OGSA
infrastructure (OGSI).
OGSA basic services (meta-OS and domain services)
32. What are the OGSA basic services?

Common Management Model (CMM)

Distributed data access and

replication. Policy, security
Provisioning and resource management.

33. What are the two dimensions of stateful nature of web service?

A service is maintaining its state information.

The interaction pattern between the client and service can be stateful.

UNIT - V

34. What are the two aspects involved in GRAM?

Job submission- a user starts the job scheduling with the creation of a
managed job service.
Resource management – a client knows about the master host
environment and the master managed factory service.

35. What are the two kinds of lifecycle model associated with state data recovery?

Persistent lifecycle
model. Transient
lifecycle model.

36. Write the combination of Globus GT3 toolkit?

GT3 core.
Base services
User- defined services.

37. What is a GT3 core?

It provides a framework to host the high-level services.

The core consists of OGSI reference implementation, security
infrastructure, and System level services.

38. What are the major components of default server side framework?

Web service engine provided by Apache AXIS framework. The GT3

software uses the Apache AXIS framework to deal with normal web
services.
Globus container framework. The GT3 software provides a container to
manage stateful web service through a unique instance handle, instance
 repository, and lifecycle management.

39. Write notes on Grid container?

The Globus container model is derived from the J2EE managed container
model, where the components are free from complex resource
manageability.
Lightweight service introspection and discovery.
Dynamic deployment and soft-state management of stateful grid services.

40. What are the two levels of security available in GT3?

Transport-level security-based on GSI security mechanism.

Message-level security-implemented at the SOAP message level.

41. What are the treatments to the operation involved in service activation?

Activate utilizing the lazy creation

mechanism. Activation on service startup.

42. What are the problems with the operation providers?

Due to the unavailability of multiple inheritances in java, service

developers utilize the default interface hierarchy, as provided by the
framework.
Some of the behaviors implemented by the aforementioned classes are
specific to the GT3 container.
Dynamic configurations of service behaviors are not possible.

43. What are the expression evaluators supported in GT3?

Service Data Name Evaluator.

Service Data Name Set Evaluator.
Service Data Name Delete
Evaluator. Service Data XPath
Evaluator.

44. What are the two different message-level authentication mechanisms provided
by GT3 framework?

GSI Secure Conversation- a secure context is established between the

client and the service.
GSI XML Signature- a message is signed with a given set of credentials.

45. What are the three ways available to create and add service data to service
dataset?

Gets the service data wrapper class from the service data set using the
QName of the service data element as defined in WSDL.
 Create the value for that service data element.
Update the service data set with service data wrapper and the new value.

46. What are the steps involved in creating SDE?

Create a new SDE by calling the create method of the service instance’s
service data set with a unique name or QName.
Set a value for the SDE. The value of the SDE of type My Service Data
type. Set the initial value of My Service Data Type.
Add the SDE to the service data set.

47. What are the most common GT3 security handlers?

Authentication Service
Handler WS security Handler
Security Policy
Handler Authorization
Handler X509sign
Handler
GSS Handler

48. What are the client side security handlers?

X509SignHandler
SecContextHandl
er GSSHandler
WSSecurityClientHandler

49. What are the requirements to be fulfilled for information service in the context
of GT3?

A basis for configuration and adaptation in heterogeneous

environments. Uniform and flexible access to static and dynamic
information.
Scalable and efficient access to data.
Access to multiple information
sources. Decentralized maintenance
capabilities.

50. Define Peer to Peer computing?

Peer to Peer computing is a relatively new computing discipline in the

realm of distributed computing.
P2P system defines collaboration among a larger number of individuals
and/or organizations, with a limited set of security requirements and a less
complex resource-sharing topology.