Here’s a well-structured categorization of the important Cloud Computing questions
for better revision:
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### **1. Cloud Computing Basics & Architecture**
- Cloud computing and its characteristics (2)
- Features and functions of cloud computing platforms
- Cloud computing service-oriented architecture (SOA)
- Different service model deployments and how they work
- Service-oriented architecture (SOA) – How it supports cloud computing
- What are inner cloud issues? Describe the functions of cloud platforms
- What are the issues in cloud computing and how to improve the performance of
cloud platforms?
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### **2. Cloud Services & Management**
- Administration and monitoring of cloud services
- Cloud monitoring system
- Secure communication in cloud and how it is achieved
- Load balancing and resource optimization
- Utility computing and elastic computing
- How does a cloud environment balance the workload?
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### **3. Virtualization & Its Role in Cloud Computing**
- What is virtualization, and why is it needed in cloud computing?
- Services provided by virtualization
- Challenges of virtualization in cloud computing
- Virtual threats & VM-specific security techniques
- Benefits of virtualization
- Pitfalls of virtualization
- Hardware virtualization techniques
- Virtualization hypervisor management software
- What virtualization support is needed to achieve fast cloning of VMs?
- How VM cloning can enable fast recovery
- Why are virtual machines and virtual clusters suggested in a cloud computing
system?
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### **4. Hypervisors & Virtualization Software**
- Hypervisor
- Discuss different types of hypervisors with examples
- VMware and vSphere
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### **5. Cloud Storage & Distributed Systems**
- Bigtable – Why is it known as a distributed storage system?
- Google File System (GFS)
- Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
- Features of HDFS
- Compare GFS and HDFS (Repeated)
- Differentiate between a database and a data store
- Relational database
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### **6. Data Migration & Cloud Middleware**
- Cloud middleware (3)
- Data migration (2)
- Sky computing (4)
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### **7. Cloud Security & Threats**
- Security-related challenges in cloud computing (2)
- Trusted cloud computing
- Explain security reference architecture of the cloud with a neat diagram
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### **8. Cloud Computing Standards & Protocols**
- Elements of UDDI – Explain in detail
- WSDL (2)
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### **9. Cloud Mashups & Multi-Tenant Systems**
- Need for cloud mashups in cloud computing (2)
- Multi-tenant software and techniques (2)
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### **10. MapReduce & Data Processing in Cloud**
- How does MapReduce work? What is shuffling in MapReduce? (3)
- MapReduce model and its applications
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### **11. Miscellaneous Topics**
- How does cloud computing support mobile cloud computing? What are its features?
- Purpose of mobile cloud computing and its features
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