ARAVALI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & MANAGEMENT, FARIDABAD

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE ENGINEERING

Interview Questions and Answers

Program: [Link] Computer Science Engineering Batch: CSE 2021-25

Class: CSE Semester Section: 7A&B
Subject Name: Cloud Computing Subject Code: PEC-IT-I-703
Faculty Name: Ms. Mamta Saxena No. of Credits: 3

Q1. Compare Cloud and On-premise Computing.

Q2. What is a Cloud?

Q3. What is Cloud Computing?

Q4. What are some of the key features of Cloud Computing?

Q5. What are the benefits of Cloud Computing?

Q6. Mention the layers of PaaS architecture.

Q7. What are the cloud service models?

Q8. Write about Function as a Service.

Q9. What are the components of Windows Azure?

Q10. What are the main constituents of the cloud ecosystem?

Q11. Who are the cloud consumers in a cloud ecosystem?

Q12. Who are the direct consumers in a cloud ecosystem?

Q13. Who are the Cloud service providers in a cloud ecosystem?

Q14. What are the differences occurred in distributed operations?

Q15. Which agent is equivalent of Nova Compute?

Q16. Mention the reliability and availability of Cloud Computing.

Q17. Explain the Cloud Computing Architecture.

Q18. What are the Cloud Storage Levels?

Q19. What are the differences between the three main Cloud service models: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS?

Q20. List some of the major benefits of using Cloud Computing.

Q21. Explain the concept of a Virtual Machine (VM) and its role in Cloud Computing.

Q22. Give examples of real-world applications of Cloud Computing.

Q23. What are some popular Cloud storage solutions?

Q24. What are the serverless components in cloud computing with their advantages and
disadvantages?

Q25. Give the best example of the open-source Cloud Computing.

Q26. What are microservices and their importance in the cloud?

Q27. What is an AMI? How do we implement it?

Q28. Why Hybrid Clouds are so important?

Q29. List the platforms that are used for large-scale Cloud Computing.

Q30. Mention the different types of models used for the deployment in Cloud Computing.

Q31. Explain security management in terms of Cloud Computing.

Q32. Which are the layers of Cloud Computing?

Q33. Explain the full form and the usage of 'Eucalyptus' in Cloud Computing.

Q34. Mention the names of some large cloud providers and databases.

Q35. Explain the difference between cloud and traditional data centers.

Q36. What is meant by Edge Computing?

Q37. Describe the Cloud Computing architecture.

Q38. List out the different layers that define Cloud architecture.

Q39. What are system integrators in Cloud Computing?

Q40. Explain the use of “EUCALYPTUS” in Cloud Computing.

Q41. What is Amazon SQS?

Q42. What are the uses of APIs in cloud services?

Q43. Mention different data center deployments of Cloud Computing.

Q44. List down the three basic functioning clouds in Cloud Computing.

Q45. What are the characteristics of cloud architecture that differ from traditional cloud architecture?

Q46. What are the building blocks of cloud architecture?

Q47. Explain AWS.

Q48. Mention the key components of AWS.

Q49. Explain how you can vertically scale an Amazon instance.

Q50. Explain the security usage in the Amazon Web Services model.

Q51. What are reasons that make Amazon so big?

Q52. How does Resource Replication take place in Cloud Computing?

Q53. What is Containers as a Service (CaaS)?

Q54. Can you explain how Cloud Computing differs from traditional data center operations?

Q55. What is Cloud migration and what are its benefits?

Q56. What are containerized data centres?

Q57. What are some issues with Cloud Computing?

Q58. What do you mean by rate limiting?

Q59. How does Cloud-native foundation define Cloud-native applications?

Q60. What is encapsulation?

Q61. How does resource replication take place in Cloud Computing?

Q62. What is a Cloud usage monitor?

Q63. List some Cloud-enabling technologies.

Q64. What is the difference between cloud computing and mobile computing?

Q65. What is the difference between scalability and elasticity?

Q66. How would you secure data for transport in cloud?

Q67. What is an API Gateway?

Q68. What are Cloud-Native Applications?

Q69. How does the Polling Agent monitor cloud usage?

Q70. How does the Resource Agent monitor the cloud usage?

Q71. How does the Monitoring Agent monitor the cloud usage?

Q72. Why are microservices important for a true cloud environment?

Q73. What are Microservices?

[Link] is cloud computing the future?

Q75. What are the cons of cloud computing?

Q76. What are the disadvantages of the SaaS cloud computing layer?

Q77. What is big data in cloud computing?

Q78. Which delivery model is an example of cloud computing?

Q79. What is Load Balancing in Cloud Computing?

Q80. Can you name some of the most critical cloud platform databases?

[Link] should a company opt for utility computing?

Q82. What is the best way to make this operation safe when transferring data to the cloud?

Q83. What is the best way to make this operation safe when transferring data to the cloud?

Q84. What are the benefits of using Traffic Manager in Azure?

[Link] is Amazon S3?

Q86. What is Amazon Machine Image?

Q87. How is Geo Restriction in CloudFront helpful?

Q88. What are the modes of SaaS?

Q89. What are the advantages and disadvantages of serverless computing?

Q90. How would you safeguard data for transport in the cloud?

Q91. How Does Cloud Computing Architecture Differ From Traditional IT Infrastructure?

Q92. What Roles do Cloud Service Providers Play in the Cloud Ecosystem?

[Link] are the major performers in Cloud Computing Architecture?

[Link] is Virtualization in Cloud Computing?

[Link] is Server Virtualization?

Q96. What is meant Resiliency in Cloud Computing?

[Link] is Everything as a Service (XaaS)?

Q98. What is Resource Pooling Architecture in Cloud Computing?

[Link] is Grid Computing?

Q100. What is Hypervisor Security in Cloud Computing?