Unit 1: Introduction
1. Explain Challenges and Applications of Cloud Computing.
2. Define Cloud Computing and state its Desirable Features.
3. Difference between Public Cloud and Private Cloud.
4. Explain Various Layers of Cloud Computing.
5. Write and explain Types of Deployment Models of Cloud Computing.
6. What is Virtualization? What are its Advantages in Cloud Computing?
7. What are the Characteristics of Cloud Computing?
8. Explain the difference between Cloud and Traditional Data Centers.
9. Explain Pod, Silos, Aggregations in terms of cloud.
[Link]: On-Demand Self-Service, Resource Pooling, Broad Network
Access, Rapid Elasticity, Measured Services.
[Link]: Hardware Virtualization, Multi-Tenant, Autonomic
Computing, High Availability, Dynamic Resource Allocation.
Unit 2: Service Models & VM Migration
1. Explain Cloud Computing Service Models.
2. Explain PaaS and SaaS with examples.
3. Explain Identity as a Service (IDaaS).
4. What are the Services provided by SaaS?
5. Give Differences between IaaS and PaaS.
6. Describe Virtual Machine Migration Services.
7. Justify: “SaaS integration is hard.”
8. Explain IaaS Technology in cloud computing with a real-world example.
9. Describe Grid Computing and Utility Computing.
[Link] PaaS Application Framework in detail.
Unit 3: Virtualization & Automation
1. Write a note on Load Balancing and Elastic Load Balancer.
2. Explain Hypervisor.
3. How does Machine Imaging support cloud goals?
4. What is a Virtual Machine? Explain its Types and Mobility Patterns.
5. How does Virtualization help Data Center Management?
6. Explain Virtual Clusters.
7. Compare Physical vs Virtual Clusters.
8. Define Porting Applications via Virtualization.
9. Explain CPU Virtualization with an example.
[Link] and explain Virtual Machine Migration Techniques (Hot & Cold
Migration).
[Link] Deployment Models of clouds with use cases.
[Link] Virtualization in Data Center Automation.
[Link] and explain Layered Virtualization Technology Architecture.
[Link] features of Cloud Management Products.
[Link] a short note on Emerging Cloud Management Standards.
Unit 4: Resource Management
1. What are SOAP and REST Web Services?
2. Explain Inter-Cloud Resource Management.
3. Explain important features of Cloud Resource Management.
4. Explain Billing and Metering Services.
5. Explain Digital Signatures.
6. Explain Application Porting in the Cloud.
7. Explain Identity Management and Access Control in cloud computing.
8. Enlist Design Challenges of Cloud Infrastructure & Resource
Management.
9. Explain Architectural Design of Compute and Storage Clouds.
Unit 5: Cloud Security
1. Write a short note on Identity Management and Access Control.
2. What are the Basic Issues of Securing the Cloud?
3. Explain Autonomic Security and Storage Area Networks (SANs).
4. Explain Cloud Security Architecture.
5. Explain Disaster Recovery in Clouds.
6. How does AWS handle Disaster Recovery?
7. Explain Securing Data in the cloud.
8. How would you Secure Data in Transit in cloud?
Unit 6 & 7: Middleware & Case Studies
1. What is Eucalyptus? Explain its architecture with a diagram.
2. How can we create IaaS using Eucalyptus?
3. Explain various Components of Eucalyptus.
4. Give a brief introduction to Windows Azure Operating System.