Review Questions

Q) What is virtualization and what are its benefits?
Q) What are the characteristics of virtualized environments?
Q) What are hardware virtualization techniques?
Q) Discuss the architecture of Hyper-V. Its advantages and disadvantages
Q) What are the benefits of virtualization in the context of cloud computing?
Q) What is Cloud Computing?
Q) What are Characteristics of cloud Computing
Q) Comment on “Cloud and virtualization”
Q) What do you mean by pods, aggregation and silos in terms of IAAS
Q) Enlist and explain the challenges and obstacles while adopting cloud computing?
Q) What is administrating and monitoring cloud services? Enlist and explain different tools used for administrating and monitoring cloud services.
Q) How do you relate cloud computing with utility computing?
Q) What is utility computing?
Q) Enlist services provided by SAAS, PAAS and IAAS
Q) What is demand self service? Explain how it is implemented in cloud computing platforms.
Q) Compare and contrast utility computing, grid computing and cloud computing.
Q) Mainframe Computing Vs Cloud Computing
Q) Explain the component stack of SaaS , PaaS and IaaS
Q) What is multi-tenancy? Explain in brief different ways to achieve multi-tenancy in application
software.
Q) Define Cloud computing, Enlist and explain essential characteristics of cloud computing
Q) What is cloud computing? Enlist and explain three service models, and four deployment models of cloud computing.
Q) Explain in brief, how cloud helps reducing capital expenditure?
Q) Explain cloud computing and its need.
Q) Which are the technologies on which cloud computing relies?
Q) What are the major distributed computing technologies that led to cloud computing?
Q) Difference between Cluster, Grid and cloud computing?
Q) How is cloud development different from traditional software development?
Q) What is Virtualization and Why it is required?
Q) What are the Characteristics of virtualized environments
Q) Explain Managed execution characteristic of virtualized environment.
Q) What is Virtual Machine Migration?
Q) Explain Execution virtualization
Q) Explain Machine reference model in Execution virtualization
Q) Explain Programming language-level virtualization
Q) Write  a short note on Hardware-level virtualization
Q) Explain Application-level virtualization
Q) Explain Storage virtualization
Q) Explain Desktop virtualization
Q) What is network virtualization
Q) Explain a hypervisor reference architecture
Q) Explain 3 properties of VMM to support virtualization.
Q) Explain Hardware virtualization techniques
Q) Compare Full Vs para virtualization techniques
Q) What is Operating system-level virtualization
Q) What is Server Consolidation
Q) Explain Pros and cons of virtualization
Q) Explain Xen Architecture
Q) Explain VMWare full virtualization reference model
Q) Explain in detail Microsoft Hyper-V architecture

Q) Explain Hadoop Distributed File System
Q) Explain Google File System (GFS)
Q) Compare between HDFS and GFS
Q) Explain BigTable
Q) Write a short note on Dynamo
Q) Explain HBase
Q) Why distributed File system is needed?
Q) HBase Vs HDFS

Q)Explain the greenfield and brownfield deployment options
Q) Compare Cloud computing platforms : Openstack, Opennimbus, Eucalyptus
Q) Explain VSAN
Q) Write a short note on VLAN