CEC315: Tutorial Sheet
1. In the NIST definition of Cloud computing, what does the phrase “shared pool of configurable
computing resources” comprise?
2. Using a diagram, explain the components, actors and their roles in the NIST reference
architecture.
3. List all the tasks that hypervisors do accomplish or perform in the cloud.
4. A study was conducted by a cloud business consulting firm and reported that more than ¾ of
companies today are using cloud computing to expand their business frontiers; what concrete
benefits do attract companies to the cloud?
5. What relationship do exist between AI and cloud computing?
6. What are some of the key components of: cloud infrastructure, cloud platform, cloud software?
Give real world examples.
7. Using a diagram, explain the different components of the SOA and how they work.
8. Write concise notes or: Web services, APIs, Virtualization, Migration to the cloud, SLA
9. Draw the flowchart of SLA management in the cloud and link it to its life cycle.
10. In relation to REST, discuss the five principles of web technologies.
11. Describe some of the companies involved in cloud computing and the services they provide.
12. Advise an organisation that needs to run a highly sensitive and mission critical application with
unpredictable performances and capacity requirements on the type of model or models it can go
in for that will best meet their requirements and give convincing arguments to support your
choice.
13. In which situations or cases will it be ideal or best suited for bare metal savers, traditional servers,
blade servers and virtual servers.
14. Briefly describe the different types of cloud storage.
15. Elaborate or advance some of the motivations for cloud federations.
16. Many see cloud adoption as an integral part of modernizing organisations, discuss.
17. Mi_Den.KomSoft a Kumbuea-based IT company plans to migrate their data to a secure, scalable,
performant cloud and they are totally blank about the process. Assuming that you have been
contracted as a cloud consultant to help the company in the process, elaborate the migration
process, strategies to them, stating the elements/SLOs you will negotiate to be included in their
SLA, address their fears and school them on the benefits that the migration will bring to the
company. Exercise fair play protecting the interest of your client and that of the cloud provider(s).
Give the best practices to ensure cloud migration success.
18. Using a car analogy, explain the differences between the three services models, stating how the
following are related to the services: buying, renting, hiring or leasing.
19. Describe the scenarios that are good for each cloud model.
20. Differentiate between server farms, datacentres and the cloud.
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