Unit 1: Cloud Fundamentals
No Complete Question Years Importance
1 Describe three service offering models of Cloud Computing. 2025, 2024, 2023 5
2 Explain in detail Motivation for Cloud Computing? 2025, 2024, 2023 5
3 What is Computing Paradigm? Explain various Computing types? 2024 3
4 Explain Benefits and Drawbacks of Cloud Computing? 2025, 2023 5
5 List and Explain Requirements for Cloud Services? 2025, 2024, 2023 5
6 What is cloud migration? What are its phases? 2024, 2023, 2022 5
7 How is cloud anatomy different from cloud architecture? 2024, 2023 4
8 Explain principles of cloud computing. 2024 3
Unit 2: Cloud Models & Deployment
No Complete Question Years Importance
1 Explain in brief Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). 2025, 2024, 2023 5
2 What is public Cloud? Explain several issues related to Public Cloud. 2025, 2024, 2023 5
3 Explain in brief Platform as a Service (PaaS). 2025, 2024 4
Explain in detail Hybrid Cloud with its suitability/advantages and 2025, 2024, 2023,
4 5
disadvantages. 2022
5 Compare Hybrid cloud and Community cloud. 2023 4
6 What is SLA? Are SLAs different for each type of cloud deployment? 2024, 2023, 2022 4
7 What is Private Cloud? Explain in detail On-Premise Private cloud. 2024, 2023 4
8 Explain private cloud? Discuss its characteristics and issues. 2023, 2022 4
Unit 3: Cloud Application & Virtualization
No Complete Question Years Importance
2025, 2024,
1 What are Application Development Methodologies? Explain. 4
2023
2 Explain in detail Features of Cloud Operating System. 2025, 2024 4
3 Explain how Cloud Computing is Different from Virtualization? 2025, 2023 5
4 Differentiate between type I and type II hypervisors. 2024, 2022 4
What is role of OS in Cloud Computing? Explain different types of Operating
5 2024, 2023 3
System.
2024, 2023,
6 What is Virtualization? List its Benefits and Drawbacks. 5
2022
Explain role of Hypervisors in virtualization? Explain different types of
7 2023 3
Hypervisors.
8 What are protection rings? Explain how it is used in virtualization. 2022 3
Unit 4: SaaS, Multitenancy & Data Centers
No Complete Question Years Importance
List the challenges that make SaaS development a difficult task. Explain
1 2025, 2024 5
any five challenges in detail.
2 Explain in details networking issues/data center issues in Data Centers. 2025, 2024, 2023 4
2025, 2024, 2023,
3 Explain different multitenancy levels with neat diagrams. 5
2022
2025, 2024, 2023,
4 What are the different ways to classify data centers? 5
2022
5 Explain benefits of SaaS application. 2022 3
What is Cloud-Aware Software Development using PaaS Technology?
6 2023 3
Explain in brief.
No Complete Question Years Importance
7 SaaS development and deployment models. Explain with diagram. 2023 4
8 Explain in brief the Architecture of Classical Data Centers. 2024 3
Unit 5: Cloud Service Providers & Tools
No Complete Question Years Importance
What do you mean by cloud service provider? Which are the major
1 2025, 2024 5
cloud service providers?
2 Explain in brief Salesforce Cloud with its services. 2025, 2024 4
2025, 2024, 2023,
3 List the tools/service provided by Microsoft and explain them in brief. 5
2022
Explain Services provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) with neat
4 2025, 2024, 2022 4
diagram.
5 Explain SAP HANA cloud in detail. 2023 3
6 Explain vCloud in detail. 2023, 2022 3
7 Explain different services provided by Google Cloud. 2023 3
8 What are the service/support services offered by IBM smart cloud? 2023, 2022 3
Unit 6: Security & Open Source Tools
No Complete Question Years Importance
1 List the difference between open source tools and closed source tools. 2025, 2024 5
2025, 2024,
2 What are the different open source tools for SaaS? Explain any of them. 5
2023
3 What are the privacy challenges for cloud computing? Explain. 2025, 2024 4
4 What are the security issues in PaaS? Explain. 2025, 2024 4
No Complete Question Years Importance
5 Explain the architecture of OpenStack. 2023, 2022 3
6 Explain the architecture of the Hadoop framework. 2023, 2022 3
State and explain the use of Disaster Recovery, Privacy, Data Centre Security,
7 2022 3
Access Control, Encryption/Decryption.
What are the different open source tools for research (CloudSim,
8 2022 3
SimMapReduce etc.)?
Unit-Wise Repetition & Ratings
Avg. Overall
Unit Repeat Concept Interrelation
Unit Title Repeated Importance
No Frequency Difficulty Level
Qs/Year (5=highest)
Cloud Easy- Strong (basis
1 Very High 4-5 5
Fundamentals Moderate for all)
Cloud Models &
2 High 4 Easy Moderate 5
Deployment
Application &
3 High 3-4 Moderate Strong 4
Virtualization
SaaS, Data Centers, Moderate-
4 3-4 Moderate Moderate 4
Multitenancy High
Moderate- Low (some
5 Providers & Tools Moderate 2-3 3
Easy overlap)
Security, Open Low (can
6 Moderate 2-3 Moderate 3
Source & Research overlap tools)