UNIT-II
Syllabus:
UNIT-II: Virtual Machines and Virtualization of Clusters and Data Centers Implementation Levels
of Virtualization, Virtualization Structures/ Tools and mechanisms, Virtualization of CPU, Memory
and I/O Devices, Virtual Clusters and Resource Management, Virtualization for Data Center
Automation
Implementation Levels of Virtualization:
1. State and explain different implementation levels of virtualization in cloud computing.
[7M-R20-SET-1-Jan 2024]
2. How does full virtualization differ from paravirtualization in terms of cloud implementation?
[7M-R20-SET-2-Jan 2024] [Remember]
3. Briefly describe the different levels of Virtualization Support at the OS Level?
[7M]A:Analysis
Virtualization Structures/ Tools and mechanisms:
4. Explain about the Hypervisor and Xen Architecture. [7M]U:Understand
5. Describe the Para-Virtualization with Compiler Support? [7M]A:Analysis
Virtualization of CPU, Memory and I/O Devices:
6. List down the benefits and drawbacks of hardware-assisted virtualization in cloud
environments. [7M-R20-SET-1-Jan 2024]
7. Explain about the Virtualization in Multi-Core Processors.[7M] [U:Understand]
Virtual Clusters and Resource Management:
8. Explain about the Physical versus Virtual Clusters. [7M]U:Understand
9. Describe the Live VM Migration Steps and Performance Effects? [7M]A:Analysis
10. What are the Migration of Memory, Files and Network Resources? [7M][Remember]
Virtualization for Data Center Automation:
11. Describe in detail about the concept of virtualization for data-centre automation.
[7M-R20-SET-1-Jan 2024]
12. Explain about the Cloud OS for Virtualized Data Centers. [7M]U:Understand
UNIT-III
Syllabus:
Part-I: Cloud Platform Architecture: Cloud Computing and service Models, Public Cloud Platforms
Part-II: Service Oriented Architecture, Programming on Amazon AWS and Microsoft azure
Part-I
Cloud Computing and service Models:
1. What are the different service models in cloud computing, and how do they differ from each
other? Explain. [7M-R20-SET-1-Jan 2024] [Remember]
2. What is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)? Explain some examples of IaaS providers.
[7M-R20-SET-2-Jan 2024] [Remember]
3. What are the benefits and considerations of using Software as a Service (SaaS) for enterprise
applications? Explain with a use case [7M-R20-SET-4-Jan 2024] [Remember]
4. What are the Different types of clouds and explain.[7M] [Remember]
public cloud platforms:
5. Explain some common troubleshooting techniques and resources for debugging and resolving
issues in programming on Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. [7M-R20-SET-1-Jan 2024]
6. Define the Public Clouds and Service Offerings?[7M] U:Understand
7. Explain about the GAE Architecture? [7M]U:Understand
8. Explain about the Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Windows Azure?
[7M-R19-SET-1, NOV 2022] [Understand]
Part-II
Service-oriented architecture:
1. Explain Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and how does it differ from traditional software
architectures? [7M-R20-SET-4-Jan 2024]
2. Describe the REST and Systems of Systems?[7M]A:Analysis
3. Briefly Describe the Services and Web Services? [7M]A:Analysis
4. Define briefly about the Enterprise Multitier Architecture?[7M] U:Understand
Programming on Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure:
5. Describe the key features and services offered by popular public cloud platforms like AWS,
Azure, and Google Cloud. [7M-R20-SET-1-Jan 2024] A:Analysis
6. Describe the Programming on Amazon EC2?[7M][Analysis]
7. Discuss about the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)?[15][R19, SET-2, NOV 2022] [Evaluate]
8. Explainthe Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and SimpleDB?[7M] A:Analysis
UNIT-IV
Syllabus: Policies and Mechanisms for Resource Management, Applications of Control Theory to
Task Scheduling on a Cloud, Stability of a Two-Level Resource Allocation Architecture, Feedback
Control Based on Dynamic Thresholds, Coordination Autonomic Performance Managers, Resource
Bundling, Scheduling Algorithms for Computing Clouds, Start-Time Fair Queuing
Policies and Mechanisms for Resource Management:
1. What are the Policies and mechanisms for resource management?[7M] [Remember]
Applications of control theory to task scheduling on a cloud:
2. Illustrate the concept of how can control theory account for varying workload demands and
prioritize tasks accordingly in a cloud environment? [7M-R20-SET-1-Jan 2024]
Stability of a two-level resource allocation architecture:
3. How do cloud providers handle resource allocation and scaling to meet customer demands?
[7M-R20-SET-1-Jan 2024] [Remember]
Feedback control based on dynamic thresholds:
4. Explain about the Feedback control based on dynamic thresholds? [7M] U:Understand
5. Describe briefly in the Thresholds and Proportional Thresholding?[7M] U:Understand
Coordination autonomic performance managers:
6. Define theCoordination of specialized autonomic performance managers?[7M]R:Remember
Resource bundling:
7. Explain about the Combinatorial auctions for cloud resources in Resource bundling? [7M]
A:Analysis
8. Describethe ASCA Combinatorial Auction Algorithm? [7M] U:Understand
Scheduling algorithms for computing clouds:
9. Explain about theScheduling algorithms for computing clouds?[7M]A:Analysis
Start-time fair queuing:
10. With the help of an example explain the start time fair queuing scheduling algorithm in cloud
computing. 7M-R20-SET-1-Jan 2024] [Remember]
UNIT-V
Syllabus:The Evolution of Storage technology, Storage Models, File Systems, and Databases, Distributed
File Systems, general parallel filesystem, Google file system .
The Evolution of Storage Technology:
1. Explain about the Evolution of Storage Technology? [7M] R:Remember
Storage models, file systems, and databases:
2. Explain about the Storage models, file systems and databases?[7][R19, SET-4, NOV 2022]
[understand]
Distributed file systems and General file systems:
3. Briefly Explain about Distributed File systems[14M-R20-SET-2-Jan 2024] [Analysis]
4. Describe about the Network File System?[7M] A:Analysis
5. Explain about the Andrew File System?[7M]R:Remember
6. Briefly explain about the Sprite Network File System?[7M] C:Create
7. Explain about the General Parallel File System?[7][R19, SET-1, NOV 2022] [Evaluate]
Google File System:
8. Explain about the Google File System? [7M] C:Create
Syllabus:
UNIT I: Systems Modeling, Clustering and Virtualization: Scalable Computing over the
Internet-The Age of Internet Computing, Scalable computing over the internet, Technologies for
Network Based Systems, System models for Distributed and Cloud Computing, , Performance,
Security and Energy Efficiency
UNIT I
ASSISNMENT QUESTIONS
Scalable Computing over the Internet:
1. Explain about the different types Scalable Computings over the
internet?[7M]R:Remember
Technologies for network-based systems:
2. Describe the different technologies for Network based systems?[7M]U:Understand
3. Explain about the Virtual Machines and Virtual Middleware?[7][R19, SET-2, NOV
2022] [Analysis]
System models for distributed and cloud computing:
4. Explain about the Distributed and cloud computing?[7M]R:Remember
5. Explain about the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)?[7M]A:Analysis
Performance, Security, and Energy efficiency:
6. Briefly explain about thePerformance Metrics and Dimensions of
Scalability?[7M]U:Understand
7. Explain about the Energy Consumption of Unused Servers and Reducing Energy in
Active Servers?[7M]R:Remember
