SRI LANKA TECHNOLOGICAL CAMPUS
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE HONOURS IN CLOUD
COMPUTING
YEAR 3 – SEMESTER 2 – January 2023
End Semester Examination
CCS316 – Designing Cloud Infrastructure
Three Hours
Answer all Questions
No. of Questions: 05
No. of Pages: 5 (including the cover page)
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• The mode of the exam will be in the form of a closed book examination.
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1.
i. Explain the concept of cloud computing using a real-world example that you are familiar with.
(05 marks)
ii. What are the essential characteristics of cloud computing? Explain each essential
characteristic using real world examples.
(05 Marks)
iii. What are the cloud service models? Explain each cloud service model using actual cloud
applications that you have used.
(05 Marks)
iv. Compare the three major cloud platforms AWS, Azure and GCP.
(05 Marks)
(Total 20 Marks)
2.
i. Explain the concept of virtualization using real world examples. What is the importance of
virtualization for cloud computing?
(04 Marks)
ii. Draw a virtualized stack and explain each component in detail.
(04 Marks)
iii. Mention the two types of hypervisors and explain the real-world use cases of each hypervisor
type.
(03 Marks)
iv. Draw VM and container overview and compare the main differences of the two stacks.
(03 Marks)
v. Explain the cloud deployment models with real world examples and highlight the telco
preferred option and justify.
(06 Marks)
(Total 20 Marks)
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3.
i. What is NFV? Explain this with respect to the telco transformation from physical hardware to
virtualized environments.
(04 Marks)
ii. Cloud Security is a very important concept where you need to identify the responsibilities of
the stake holders.
Consider the network architecture given above and mention whether AWS or the customer
is responsible for ensuring security during the below mentioned scenarios.
a. Ensuring that the AWS Management console is not hacked
b. Configuring the subnet
c. Configuring the VPC
d. Protecting against network outages in AWS region
e. Securing the SSH keys
f. Ensuring network isolation between AWS customers’ data
g. Ensuring law latency connectivity between web server and S3 bucket
h. Enforcing MFA for all user logins
(04 Marks)
iii. Consider the compute services related various lab sessions that you did in AWS. Compare the
following compute services in terms of key concepts, characteristics, and ease of use.
a. Amazon EC2
b. AWS lambda
c. AWS Beanstalk
(06 Marks)
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iv. Write short notes on below
a. AWS Region and availability zone
b. AWS IAM
c. Securing data on AWS
(06 Marks)
(Total 20 Marks)
4.
i. Explain the types of cloud storage, using lab exercises you performed.
(06 Marks)
ii. What is container orchestration and why is kubernetes the most widely used container
orchestration platform? Explain in detail.
(05 Marks)
iii. What is an Application Load Balancer (ALB)? Consider that you are asked to deploy two web
servers and load share HTTP traffic. Explain the functionality of the load balancer and its
advantages with respect to the example scenario.
(05 Marks)
iv. Explain the importance of auto-scaling functionality based on a real-world example.
(04 Marks)
(Total 20 Marks)
5.
i. Explain the three fundamental drivers of cost with AWS
(06 Marks)
ii. Explain the three main options that you have to pay for the public cloud resources based on
the concepts of pay for what you use, pay less when you reserve and pay less when you use
more and the public cloud grows.
(06 Marks)
iii. What is total cost of ownership (TCO)? Explain using the TCO considerations.
(06 Marks)
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iv. What are the billing and cost management options available in AWS ?
(02 Marks)
(Total 20 Marks)
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