This document contains sample questions for the course CS6703 Grid and Cloud Computing. The questions cover topics in virtualization including defining cloud computing, listing the characteristics and categories of clouds, describing cloud deployment models, private, public and hybrid clouds, defining IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, defining virtualization and virtual machines, explaining hypervisors, full and para virtualization, virtualization at the CPU, memory and I/O levels, and describing virtual clusters and their management. The questions range from short 2 mark definitions and listings to longer 8 and 16 mark questions requiring explanations and comparisons of key cloud and virtualization concepts.

1. Dr Gnanasekaran Thangavel, Professor and Head, RMK College of Engineering and Technology, Chennai
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CS6703 GRID AND CLOUD COMPUTING
Regulation 2013
SAMPLE QUESTIONS
UNIT III- VIRTUALIZATION
2 MARKS
1. Define Cloud Computing.
2. List down the Characteristics of Cloud Computing.
3. List down the Categories of Cloud Computing.
4. What are the various levels of virtualization?
5. What are the cloud deployment models?
6. What is private cloud?
7. What is community cloud?
8. What is public cloud?
9. List the advantages of public cloud.
10.What is hybrid cloud?
11.What are the types of cloud providers?
12.What is IaaS?
13.What is PaaS?
14.What is SaaS?
15.Define virtualization.
16.What is a virtual machine?
17.What is hypervisor?
18.What is the role of VMM?
19.What is full virtualization?
20.What is binary translated virtualization?
21.What is dynamic binary translation?
22.List the disadvantages of OS Level Virtualization
23.Differences between virtualization and cloud computing
24.What are the three design requirements for virtual machine monitor?
25.What is meant by Hypervisor Based virtualization?
26.List down the primary elements of XEN hypervisor.
27.What is meant by No Critical instruction and Critical instruction?
28.What is meant by Para virtualization?
29.Define CPU virtualization.
30.What is meant by Input/Output Virtualization?
31.What are the methods used for implementing multicore processors virtualization?
32.Define virtual cluster.
33.List down the methods for managing the virtual clusters.
34.List down the states of the virtual machine.

2. Dr Gnanasekaran Thangavel, Professor and Head, RMK College of Engineering and Technology, Chennai
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8 MARKS
1. Compare the three cloud models.
1. Discuss the Pros and Cons of cloud computing.
2. Describe the categories of cloud.
3. Explain virtual clusters.
4. How resources management is done in cloud?
5. How virtualization is implemented in data centers?
16 MARKS
1. Explain briefly the cloud deployment models.
2. Discuss in detail about the categories of cloud computing.
3. Discuss briefly about the virtualization for data center automation.
4. Brief about the advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing.
5. Describe the implementation levels of virtualization.
6. Explain the virtualization is achieved in CPU, memory and I/O devices.