Cloud Computing (21CS72)
Question Bank on Module-5
1. What is AMI? Brief on how AMIs are created and used. (5M)
2. Explain the following with reference to EC2 instances. (Each carries 4M)
i. Different configurations for EC2 instances.
ii. EC2 environment
iii. AWS CloudFormation
iv. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
v. Amazon MapReduce
3. Discuss the following with reference to Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). (Each carries
6M)
i. S3 Key concepts
ii. Different forms of resource naming
iii. Buckets and objects management
iv. Access control and security
v. Amazon elastic block store
4. Briefly discuss the following Amazon’s storage solutions. (5M each)
i. Amazon RDS
ii. Amazon SimpleDB
5. Explain the communication services of AWS. (6M)
6. With a necessary block diagram explain the architecture and core components of GoogleApp
Engine. (8M)
7. Give the summary on DataStore component of GoogleApp Engine. (6M)
8. Describe the following with respect to GoogleApp Engine. (Each carries 4M)
i. URLFetch
ii. MemCache
iii. Mail and instance messaging
iv. Task queues and Cron jobs
9. Briefly discuss on life cycle of Java application development on GoogleApp Engine. (6M)
10. Discuss the following application area of Cloud Computing. (Each carries 6M)
i. Healthcare: ECG analysis in the cloud
ii. Biology: gene expression data analysis for cancer diagnosis
iii. Geoscience: satellite image processing
iv. Office automation and complete desktop
v. Social networking
