Week 1: Assignment 1

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Due on 2025-02-05, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on 2025-01-22, 20:18 IST

1) Which of the following fall(s) under the "essential characteristics" of cloud computing? 1point

A. Resource Pooling
B. Measured Service
C. Rapid Elasticity
D. Latency

.
d.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a

b
C

1point
2 "Google Slide" is an example of
A. PaaS
B. laaS
C. SaaS
D. FaaS

Oc.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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C

3) Which of the following is/are public cloud platformn(s)? Opoints

A. Windows Server Hyper-V

B. Google Cloud Interconnect
C. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
D. Microsoft Azure
a

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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d.

1point
VM technology allows multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical system.
A. True
B. False

Yes, the answer is correct.

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5) I point
Which one of the following is/are disadvantage(s) of cloud computing?
A. Resource pooling
B. It requires an always-on internet connection.
C. Ubiquitous
D. On-demand payment policy

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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b.

) For less data-intensive applications, horizontal scale-out elasticity is the ideal solution. 1point

A. True
B. False

b.

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7) The combination of Service-Oriented Infrastructure and Cloud Computing realizes to i point

A. FTP
B. SNTP
C. XaaS
D. FaaS

Ob.

d.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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C

8) 1point
What is/are the main requirement(s) of a Cloud Service Provider (CSP)?
A. Increase agility
B. Increase cost
C. Increase productivity
D. Decrease cost

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
Accepted Answers:

C
9) PaaS (Platform as a Service) brings the benefits: (i) Creation of software (ii) Integration of web i point
services and databases

A. Only (i)
B. Only (ü)
C. Both (i) and (i1)
D. Neither (i) nor (i)

Ob.

Yes, the answer is correct.

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C

10) 1point
A is a distributed computer system that consists of a collection of interconnected
stand-alone computers working together as an integrated computing resource.

A. Grid
B. Cluster
C. Cloud
D. Node

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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Week 2: Assignment 2
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Assignment submitted on 2025-01-28, 19:16 IST

1) The public cloud has a risk of multi-tenancy. 1point
A. True
B. False

(©A
B

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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A

2 Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) is an example of 1point

A. Private cloud
B. Public cloud
C. Hybrid cloud
D. Community Cloud

(OA
OB
Oc

OD
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score:
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A

3) Organization should consider-(i) Network Dependency and (1) Risks from multi-tenancy 1point
while thinking of deploying an outsourced private cloud.
A. Only (0)
B. Only (ü)
C. Both () and ()
D. None of () and (ü)
A

CD
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
C

4) 1 point
Which of the following is/are XML parser API(s)?
A. Xaas (Anything as a Model)
B. DOM (Document Object Model)
C. CLI (Command Line Interface)
D. SLA (Service Level Agreement)

(B
Oc
D

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
Accepted Answers:
R
5) What is/are the main difference(s) between virtualization and dual boot? 1 point
A. No difference between dual boot and virtualization.
B. In virtualization, operating systems are not isolated from each other, but not in dual boot.
C. In a dual boot, both operating systems run simultaneousy, but not in virtualization.
D. In virtualization, both operating systems run simultaneously, but not in dual boot.

A
B

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
D

6) In virtualization, a virtual machine monitor is also called Ipoint

A. Hypervisor
B. Short-term Scheduler
C. Analyzer
D. Parser

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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A

7) Speed and flexibility are the two disadvantages of hardware-assisted virtualization. 1point
A. True
B. False

A
B
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
A

8) 1 point
The following problems are addressed through Web services:
A. Firewall
B. Interoperability
C. Complexity
D. Speed

A
VB
c
D

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
A
B
9) Aweb service can be discovered using 1point
A. SMS
B. HTTP
C. SMTP
D. UDDI

OA
B

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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D

10) Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) consists of relationships between: 1point

A. Two entities ( a service provider and a requestor)
B. Two entities (a service provider and a broker)
C. Three entities (a service provider, a service requestor, and a broker)
D. Three entities ( a service provider, a service requestor, and a hypervisor)

OD
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C
 Week 3:Assignment 3
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Due on 2025-02-12, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on 2025-02-12, 14:48 IST

1) 1 point
Which of the following is/are NOT SLA requirement(s) of PaaS cloud delivery model?

a. Privacy
b. Data Retention and Deletion
c. Machine-Readable SLAs
d.Certification

b
c
d

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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23 Which of the following is/are true regarding penalty cost? (Here D(t) and R(t) are instantaneous 1point
demand and resources at time t.)

a. Penalty cost x f|D(t)/R()|dt

b. If demand is flat, penalty is equal to 0.
c. If demand is exponential (D(t)=e'), any fixed provisioning interval (tp) according to the current
demands will fall linearly behind.
d. The penalty cost for exponential demand is exponential.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
d

) Row-oriented storage is efficient for data-warehouse workloads. 1point

a TRUE

b. FALSE

Yes, the answer is correct.

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4) Which of the following is/are example(s) of cloud SLA(s) with laas delivery model? 1point

a. Amazon EC2
b. Google App Engine
c. Salesforce CRM
d. Zoho mail

Oc
d

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
Accepted Answers:
a
5) Which of the following OpenStack components is used for block storage services? 1point

a. Keystone
b. Cinder
c. Swift
d. Neutron

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
b

6) In cloud, service downtime is 30 minutes and availability of the service is 0.80. What is the 1point
service uptime?

(a) 120 minutes

(b) 60 minutes
(c) 150 minutes
(d) 135 minutes

Oa
b

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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) In Google File System (GFS), the master maintains regular communication with the chunk servers. 1point

a. TRUE
b. FALSE

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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a

8) What is/ are the expected SLA parameters for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS): 1point

(a) Reliability
(b) usability
(c) Cache Memory size
(d) Customizability

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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a
b
d
9) Which of the following option(s) is/are correct? 1 point

a. Service Level Agreement(SLA) contains Service Level Objectives(SLO)

b. Service Level Objectives(SLO) contains Service Level Agreement(SLA)
c. Multiple Service Level Agreements (SLAS) are aggregated to Key Performance Indiocator (KPI)
d. Key Performance Indiocators (KPls) are aggregated to Service Level Objectives(SLO)

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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a
d

10) Statement 1: In OpenStack block storage, the stored objects persist until the VM is terminated. 1point
Statement 2: In OpenStack ephemeral storage, the stored objects are accessible from within VM
as local file system.

a. Both statement 1 and 2 are correct

b. Statement 1 is correct and statement 2 is incorrect
c. Statement 2 is correct and statement 1 is incorrect
d. Both statement 1 and 2 are incorrect

(Oc
d

Yes, the answer is correct.

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 Week 4: Assignment 4
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Due on 2025-02-19, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on 2025-02-19, 15:54 IST

1) In Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Cloud Datastore provides flexible object storage with global 1point
edge caching.
(a) TRUE
(b) FALSE

(Ob
Yes, the answer is correct.
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b

2) ipoint

A. Cinder, OpenStack 1. MySQL or NoSQL databases.

2. Google's fully managed, petabyte scale, low cost analytics
B. GoogleAPls data warehouse to find meaningful insights.
3. Integrate Google's services into the application.
C. Cloud sQL 4. Manages block storage in OpenStack.

Choose the correct option:

a A-4, B-3, C-1
b) A-1, B-3, C-2
c) A-2, B-4, C-1
d) A-3, B-1, C-2

Oa

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a

3) Statement 1: Azure supports public cloud platform. 1point

Statement 2: Azure App Service plan defines security.
(a) Statement 1 is True and Statement 2 is False
(b) Statement 1 is False and Statement 2 is True
(c) Both are True
(d) Both are False

d
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score:
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a

4) Which of the following components of 0penStack is responsible for providing persistent 1point
block storage to running instances
(a) Nova
(b) Cinder
(c) Swift
(d) None of the above

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
b
5) Which of the following is/are App services provided by Google Cloud Platform? Opoints

(a) BigQuery
(b) Google App Engine
(c) Cloud Endpoints
(d) Cloud SsQL
a

No. the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:

0) Which of the following is/are App Services provided Google Cloud Platform? 0 points
(a) Big Query
(b) Cloud App Engine
(c) Cloud Endpoints
(d) Cloud SQL

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
a

) Google Cloud End Points helps to: 1point

a) migrate the web app to Google Cloud Platform.

b) scale up the app according to the demand/ service requests.
c) provide flexible object storage with global edge caching.
d) Integrate Google's services into the application.
a

(Ob

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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b

8) The Azure App plan has a scale count of instances. 1point

(a) 1 to 50
(b) 1 to 20
(c) 1to 10
(d) 1 to 100
a

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Score: 1
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9) Match the following columns regarding OpenStack: ipoint

Column Column 2

A. Ephemeral storage 1. Cinder

B. Block storage 2. Nova
C. Object storage 3. Swift

(a) A-1, B-2, C-3

(b) A-2, B-3, C-1
(c) A-3, B-1, C-2
(d) A-2, B-1, C-3
a

(d
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score:
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d

10) In GCP. "gcloud app browse" - can be used to start the local development server for the ipoint
application.

(a) TRUE
(b) FALSE

Oa
b

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
b
Week 5:Assignment 5
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Due on 2025-02-26, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on 2025-02-26, 19:00 IST

1) Multiple KPls are aggregated to SLA. 1point
A. TRUE
B. FALSE

OB
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
B

2) Statement I: In resource management, resource allocation is the allocation of a service provider's 1point
resources to a customer
Statement II: Resource mapping is correspondence between resources required by the users and
resources available with the provider.
Which of the options is/are correct?
A. Statement I is TRUE and Statement Il is FALSE
B. Statement I is FALSE and Statement Il is TRUE
C. Both statements are TRUE
D. Both statements are FALSE

Oc

OD
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score:
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B

3) Athird party application runs in the cloud for 12 hours/day. At the end of one month [30 days], it 1point
was found that the cloud service suffered 5 outages of durations: 1 hour 30 minutes, 30 minutes, 2
hours 15 minutes, 1 hour 45 minutes and T hours, each on different days over the service period.
Suppose a cloud guarantees service availability for 97% of time. What are the possible value(s) of
T that SLAnegotiation gets honored in terms of service availability?

A. 3 hours
B. 6 hours
C. 12 hours
D. 8 hours

OA
OB
Oc
D
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score:
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A

4) 1point
In a MapReduce framework, the HDFS block size is 64 Mb. We have 3 files of size 65 Kb, 64 Mb
and 128 Mb. How many input splits will be created by the Hadoop framework?
A. 2
B. 3
C.4
D. 5

A
B

OD
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score:
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C
5) What is/are the correct statement(s) regarding VM load management?
A. When load increases, new VMs should be scheduled to new nodes.
B. When load decreases, use WOL to start up waiting nodes.
C. When load increases, use WOL to start up waiting nodes.
D.When load decreases, live migrate VMs to more utilized nodes.

D
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
A

6) Which of the following is/are the objective(s) of Resource Management?

A. Improved Quality of Service (QoS)
B. Scalability
C. Increased overhead
D. Increased throughput
A
B

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
ACcepted Answers:
A

The correct statement(s) for necessary and sufficient conditions for the detection of inheritance
conflict is/are:
A. Sufficient condition: current entry role and at least one exit role forms conflicting pair
B. Sufficient condition: current entry role is senior to at least one exit role
C. Necessary condition: current entry role is senior to at least one exit role
D. Necessary condition: at least one exit role

D
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score:
1

Accepted Answers:
B

8 Which of the following part(s) of the MapReduce is responsitble for processing one or more chunks
of data and producing the output results?
A. Mapper
B. Reducer
C. Map task
D. Task execution

OD
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Score: 1
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9) i point
Consider that the peak computing demand for an organization is 200 units. The demand as a
function of time can be expressed as D(t) = 3(1+t). Baseline (owned) unit cost is 120 and cloud
unit cost is 125.
Cloud is costlier than owning for a period of 150 time units.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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A

10) Which of the following is/are resource provisioning approaches? 1point

A. Intelligent multi-agent model

B. Network queueing model
C. Adaptive resource provisioning
D. Reinforcement learning guided control policy
A

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score 1
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R
 Week 6: Assignment 6
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Due on 2025-03-05, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on 2025-03-04, 14:07 IST

1) 1point
Modification threat on cloud security is an example of:
A. Deception
B. Disclosure
C. Disruption
D. Usurpation

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
A
C
D

2)
Which of the following is/are example(s) of passive attack? 1point
A. Replay
B. Denial of service
C. Traffic analysis
D. Masquerade
OA

OB

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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3) 1point
Interception is an attack on integrity
A. TRUE
B. FALSE

OB
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
B

4) Statement I: Intrusion Detection System (IDS) scans the incoming messages, and creates alerts 1point
when suspected scans/attacks are in progress.
Statement ll: Authentication is the identification of legitimate users.

A. Statement I is TRUE and statement Il is FALSE.

B. Statement Iis FALSE and statement Ilis TRUE.
C. Both statements are TRUE.
D. Both statements are FALSE.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
C
5 1point

1. Injection attack (a) Attacker sending huge amounts of requests to a

certain service and causing denial of service.
2. Flooding (b) Browser-based security issues.
3. Metadata (WSDL) spoofing attack (c) Introduce malicious code to change the course of
execution.

(d) Malicious reengineering of Web Services'

metadata description.

A. 1-{a), 2-(b), 3-(d)

B. 1-(c), 2-(a), 3-(d)
C. 1-(b), 2-(c), 3-(d)
D. 1-(a), 2-(c), 3-(d)

C
D

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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B

0) Recovery Time Objective (RTO) represents the period of time allowed for the complete execution 1point
of the task.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE

A
B

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
B

1 point
7 The correct statement(s) for necessary and sufficient conditions for the detection of inheritance
conflict islare:
A. Sufficient condition: current entry role and at least one exit role forms conflicting pair
B. Sufficient condition: curTent entry role is senior to at least one exit role
C. Necessary condition: curent entry role is senior to at least one exit role
D. Necessary condition: at least one exit role

VB
C

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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B
D

8 1point
Which of the following is/are hypervisor risks associated with VM escape?
A. Vuinerable virtual machine applications like Vmchat, VMftp, Vmcat etc.
B. Rogue hypervisor that hides itself from normal malware detection systems
C. Improper configuration of VM
D. Rogue hypervisor that creates a covert channel to dump unauthorized code

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
A
9) point
In fault tolerance, replication is the duplication of critical components of a system with the intention
of increasing reliability of the system, usually in the case of a backup or fail-safe.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE

OB
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B

10) 1point
Which of the following Open-source tools is/are used for retrieving web pages in Amazon EC2
platform?

A. wget
B. hping
C. ifconfig
D. nmap

OB
Oc
OD

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
Accepted Answers:
A
 Week 7:Assignment 7
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Due on 2025-03-12, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on 2025-03-11, 13:59 IST

1)
Which of the following options is corect about geographic information? ipoint
Statement 1: Geographic information could be static or dynamic.
Statement 2: Geographic infornmation varies in scale
Statement 3: Population of a city/town is a static geographic information
a. Statement 1 & 2 are True, but Statement 3 is False.
b. Statement 2 & 3 are True, but Statement l is False.
c. Statement 1& 3 are True, but Statement 2 is False.
d. All the statements are True.

Od
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a

2) Which of the following is true about geographical information system? Choose the most 1point

appropriate option.
a) Variable load of the GIS server needs dynamic scaling of resources.
b) GIS uses network intensive web services.
c) GIS requires a high level of reliability.
d) All of these.
a

Ob

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
d

3) Which of the following is/are not a benefit of Fog computing ? 1point

a. Location awareness
b. Improved QoS
c. High latency
d. Man-in-the-middle-attack

Yes, the answer is correct.

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C
d

4) 1 point
Which of the following statements is false about Code offloading using cloudlet?
Statement 1: The architecture reduces latency by using multi-hop network.
Statement 2: It potentially lowers battery consumption by using short range radio.
a. Statement 1 is correct but Statement 2 is incorrect
b. Statement 2 is corect but Statement 1 is incorrect
c. Both the statements are correct
d. Both the statements are incorrect.

(b

Yes, the answer is correct.

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b
5) Which of the following are some of the key components of Mobile cloud computing ? Choose the 1point
most appropriate option.
a. Solver
b. Synchronizer
c. Profiler
d. All of the above

a
b

(d
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score:
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d

6) 1point
Which of the following statement(s) is/are FALSE about Fog Computing?

a. Intelligence is brought to the cloud from the end users.

b. Fog computing is used for real-time applications
c. Fog nodes' response time is much higher than cloud server
d. Network routers, WiFi Gateways will not be capable of running applications

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a

) Fog computing enablers are 1point

a. Virtualization
b. Big data
c. Service oriented architecture
d. None of these

Yes, the answer is correct.

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1point
8) Which of the following is/are feature(s) of Mobile Cloud Computing?
a) Use less mobile device resources because applications are cloud-supported
b) Reduce reliability with information backed up and stored in the cloud
c) Mobile devices connect to services delivered through an API architecture
d) Facilitates slower development, delivery and management of mobile apps

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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a
9) 1point
Which of the following is/are the challenge(s) of Geospatial Cloud?

a) Scaling of Spatial Databases

b) Policy management among the tenants
c) Implementation of Spatial Databases
d) None of the above

Va

Yes, the answer is correct.

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a
b
C

10) Consider following statements: 1point

Statement 1: Geospatial Cloud helps to integrate data from heterogeneous back-end data
service.
Statement 2: Data services can be inside andor outside of the cloud environment in Geospatial
Cloud.

a. Statement 1 is Corect, but Statement 2 is Incorrect.

b. Statement 2 is Correct, but Statement 1 is Incorrect.
c. Both statements are Corect.
d. Both statements are Incorrect

Yes, the answer is correct.

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 Week 8: Assignment 8
The due date for submítting this assignment has passed.
Due on 2025-03-19, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on 2025-03-18, 13:32 IST

1) Which of the following statements is/are true about Docker ? 1point
Statement 1: Docker hub is used for building docker images and creating docker containers.
Statement 2: Docker compose is a registry used to host various docker images.

a. Statement 1 is correct but Statement 2 is incorrect

b. Statement 2 is correct but Statement l is incorrect
c. Both the statements are correct
d. Both the statements are incorrect.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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d

1point
2) Virtual machines take up less space than Containers.
a. True
b. False

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
Accepted Answers:
b

3) Which of the following statements is/are correct? Choose the most appropriate option. 1point
Statement 1: An image is a light weight, stand alone, executable package that includes everything
to run a piece of software.
Statement 2:Container is a run time instance of an image.

a. Statement 1 is corect but Statement 2 is incorrect

b. Statement 2 is coect but Statement l is incorrect
c. Both the statements are correct
d. Both the statements are incorrect.

Od
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
C

4) In loT based vehicular data clouds, vehicles providing their networking and data processing 1 point

capabilities to other vehicles through the cloud is best identified with which of the following
services?

a. SaaS
b. PaaS
c. IaaS
d. BaaS

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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c
 1point
D Each container can not run as an isolated process in user space.
a. True
b. False

(Ob
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b

0) Containers can share the OS kernel with other containers. 1 point

a. True
b. False

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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D For sensor resources that do not have direct connection to the cloud, sensor network proxy 1 point

provides the connection.

a) True
b) False

(a
Ob
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a

1point
8) An IoT platform has following basic building blocks
(a) Things
(b) Gateway
(c) Network and Cloud
(a) Learming Module

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a

b
9) In the context of Green Cloud Computing, the Power Usage Effectiveness is defined as 1point

a. Power Delivered / Overall Power

b. Overall Power / Power Delivered
c. Overall Power * Power Delivered
d. None of these

Oa

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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b

1point
10) Agreen broker can perform scheduling of applications to reduce energy consumption.
a. True
b. False

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
Accepted Answers:
a
 Week 9: Assignment 9
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Due on 2025-03-26, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on 2025-03-24, 11:58 IST

1) Which of the following statements is/are false ? 1point

a. Fog and Edge computing are substitutes for cloud computing.

b. Fog and Edge computing may aid cloud computing in overcoming some of the limitations
like latency issues.

Oa

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a

2) Which of the following is not a layer of the Cloud-Fog environment model? 1point
a. Client layer
b. Serverless layer
c. Fog layer
d. Cloud layer

Oc

Od
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
b

3) In the Cloud-Fog environmental model, servers contain a fog server manager and virtual machines 1point

to manage requests by using technique.

a. Image virtualization
b. Container virtualization
c. Server virtualization
d. None of these

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
Accepted Answers:
C

4) The architecture used for resource management in fog/edge computing is classified on the basis of 1point

which of the following?

a. Tenancy
b. Data flow
c. Hardware
d. All of these

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a

b
 1point
3Which of thefollowing underlying algorithm(s) is used to facilitate fog/edge computing ?
a. Discovery
b. Load balancing
c. Benchmarking
d. Cache Flow

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a
b
C

6) is a technique in which a server, an application and the associated data are moved Ipoint

onto the edge of the network

a. Containerization
b Virtualization
C Ofloading
d. None of these

(c
Od
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Score:
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7) Cloud federation is the collaboration between cloud service providers to achieve which of the 1point

following? Choose the most appropriate option(s).

a. Capacity utilization
b. Interoperability
c. Offloading
d. None of these

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a

1point
8) Which of the following is false about loosely coupled federations?
a. Limited inter operations between cloud instances.
b. Usually no support for advanced features.
c. Advanced control over remote resources.
d. None of these

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
C
9) In which of the following different CSPs establish an agreement stating the terms and conditions 1point
under which one partner cloud can use resources from another.
a. Loosely coupled federation
b. Partially coupled federation
c. Tightly coupled federation
d. All of these

Oa

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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b

1 point
0) Hybrid architecture combines the existing on-premise infrastructure (usually a private cloud) with
remote resources from one or more public clouds to provide extra capacity to satisfy peak demand
periods.
a. True
b. False

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score1
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Week 10: Assignment 10
The due date for submitting this assignment has passed.
Due on 2025-04-02, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on 2025-03-31, 21:00 IST

1) VM migration is the process of moving running applications or VMs from one physical host to 1point
another host.
a. True
b. False

(Oa
Ob.
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a

2) Given the VM memory size of 1024GB and the transmission rate of 16 MB/sec 1point
What are the total migration time and downtime for non-live VM migration? Choose the most
appropriate option.

a. 20 hours, 25 hours
b. 18 hours, 18 hours
C. 16 hours, 16 hours
d. 24 hours, 20 hours
a

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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) With Docker, the resource management effort is separated from the configuration effort. 1point
a. True

b. False

(a
b

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a

4) In Docker utility, is a collection of filesystem layers and some metadata which, if 1point
taken together, can be spun up as Docker containers.

a. Operating System
b. Microservice
c. Virtual Machine
d. Image

Ob

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
Accepted Answers:
d
5) What is(are) the reason(s) to opt for VM migration in the cloud computing paradigm? 1point

a. No particular reason, depends on the will of the end clientuser.

b To remove a physical machine from service
C To save power consumption
d. To relieve the load on the congested hosts.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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6) What is(are) the key advantage(s) of Docker? 1point

a. It facilitates microservice architecture

b. It can be used to package software
c. It can be used to model networks.
d. None of these

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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a
b

7) Post-copy and Pre-copy migration approaches are followed in 1point

a. Live Migration process
b. Non-live Migration process
c. Hybrid Migration process
d. None of these

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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a

1point
8) Which of the following is (are) true in the case of Docker architecture?
Statement-1: Private Docker registry is a service that stores Docker images.
Statement-2: Docker on the host machine is split into two parts- a daemon with a RESTful API and
a client who talks with the daemon.

a. Only Statement-1l is true

b. Only Statement-2 is true
c. Both Statement-1l and 2 are true
d. Neither Statement l nor 2 is true

Oc

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
Accepted Answers:
C
 1point
9 Which of the statement(s) is(are) true for containers?
Statement-1: Docker is an open platform for automating the deployment, scaling, and management
of containerized applications.
Statement-2: Containers make it easy to share CPU, memory, storage and network resources at the
operating system level.

a. Only Statement-1 is true

b. Only Statement-2 is true
c. Both Statement-l and 2 are true
d. Neither Statement lnor 2 is true
a

d
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score:
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b

10) Kubernetes operates at the hardware level. 1point

a. True
b. False

Oa

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
b
 Week 11:Assignment 11
The due date for submitting this assignment has passed.
Due on 2025-04-09, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on 2025-04-07, 11:47 IST

1) Which of the following statements is/are false? 1point

a. Serverless computing allows the users with more control over the deployment environment
compared to PaaS.
b. Serverless computing is a form of cloud computing that allows users to run event driven
granular applications.
(a
b

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a

2) Which of the following options is most appropriate for FaaS ? 1point

Statement 1: Each function in the FaaS platform gets unlimited execution time.
Statement 2: Functions are always active and ready for execution.
a. Statement 1 is correct but Statement 2 is incorect.
b. Statement 2 is correct but Statement 1 is incorrect.
C. Both the statements are correct.
d. Both the statements are incorrect.
a

Ob

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
d

3) AWs s3 is a fully managed proprietary NoSQL database service that supports key-value and 1point
document data structures and is offered by Amazon.com as part of the Amazon Web Services
portfolio.

a. True
b. False

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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b

4) BigQuery is a fully-managed, serverless data warehouse by 1point

a. AWS

b. Google
c. Microsoft
d. IBM

(Ob

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Score:
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5) AWS charges for the provisioned resources and executing Lambda. i point
a. True
b. False
a

Ob
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
b

6) In serverless computing the user has to manage the scalability needs of a function, unlike FaaS. 1point
a. True
b. False

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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b

) Which of the following is/are the goal of sustainable cloud computing? Choose the most i point
appropriate option.
a. Minimizing the energy consumption.
b. Increasing reliability of CDCs.
c. Minimizing carbon footprint related cost.
d. Increasing network traffic

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a

8) Which of the following is not a category of research initiative on sustainable cloud computing? 1point

a. Renewable Energy
b. Capacity planning
c. Environment Sandboxing
d. None of these

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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c
9) CDCs consist ofa chassis and racks to place the servers to process the IT workloads. i point

a. True
b. False

Oa

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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a

10) 1point
are an important distribution mechanism for libraries and custom runtimes in AWS
serverless ecosystem.
a. Runtimes
b. Lambda Layers
c. Log streams
d. None of these

(b

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
Accepted Answers:
b
Week 12: Assignment 12
The due date for submitting this assignment has passed.
Due on 2025-04-16, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on 2025-04-16, 19:27 IST

1) The key features of Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) for 5G networks include 1 point

a. Reliability improvement
b. Sharing of resources
c. Offloading data processing
d. Mitigating network traffic congestion

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
Accepted Answers:
b
C

2) Cyber-physical system is all about of the physical and the cyber. 1point
a. Union
b. Intersection
c. Segregation
d. None of above

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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b

3) Cloud computing services provide a flexible platform for realizing the goals of Cyber-Physical 1point
systems.
a. True
b. False

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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a

4) The advantage(s) of Cyber-Physical Cloud Computing is(are) as follows 1point

a. Modular composition
b. Multi-Tenancy
c. Data flow

d. Reliability and resiliency

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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a

d
5) A is a trace generated by a moving object in geographical space, usually represented by 1point

a series of chronologically ordered points.

a. Time series
b. Road map
c. Spatial trajectory
d. Spatial crowdsourcing
Oa
Ob

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
C

6)
Limitation(s) of loT devices is(are) i point

a. Containerization
b. Storage
C Processing
d. Power requirement

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:

C
d

7) 1point
Which of the statements is(are) true with respect to Spatial cloud
Statement 1: It does not support shared resource pooling which is useful for participating
organizations with common or shared goals
Statement 2: Spatial cloud provides infrastructure requirement that is based on application, with
nothing to purchase. This leverages the scalability of the application.

a. Only statement 1 is true

b. Only statement 2 is true
c. Both statements are true
d. None of the statements is true

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
b

8) Customized wearable devices for collecting health parameters are the best examples of 1point

a. IoHT
b. Fog device
c. Fog-Cloud interfaced.
d. Cloud-Fog-Edge-IoHT
a

Yes, the answer is correct.

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9) The eyber-physical system involves transdisciplinary approaches, merging the theory of 1point

cybemetics, mechatronics, design, and process science.

a. True
b. False

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score:
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a

10) ipoint
5G netwok technology has proven to offer a theoretical download speed of 1Gbit's.

a. True
b. False

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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