This document contains sample questions for the subject "Grid and Cloud Computing". It includes questions ranging from 2 to 16 marks related to grid middleware packages like Condor-G, Sun Grid Engine, Globus GT4, Hadoop framework, HDFS, MapReduce and other associated concepts. The questions cover topics such as the components, advantages and usage of different middleware, file transfer mechanisms, job scheduling, data storage and processing using MapReduce.

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 IV - PROGRAMMING MODEL
2 MARKS
1. What is middleware?
2. Define Grid middleware.
3. What are the middleware packages?
4. What is Condor-G?
5. List the components of Condor-G.
6. Give the advantages of Sungrid Engine.
7. List down the research grids.
8. Define sun grid engine.
9. What is GT4?
10.List down the GT4 efficiency.
11.List the services of GT4?
12.What is the use of GRAM?
13.What is meant by staging of files?
14.What are the ways for making secure file transfer in globus?
15.What are the objectives of GSI?
16.What are the functions of GSI?
17.What is Replica Location Service (RLS)?
18.What is Data Replication Service (DRS)?
19.What is Reliable File Transfer (RTF)?
20.What is GridFTP?
21.What is MDS?
22.What is meant by MDS?
23.Give the features of index service.
24.What are trigger services?
25.What is aggregator framework?
26.List the aggregator sources.
27.Define Aggregator framework.
28.What is CSF4?
29.What is Hadoop?
30.Give the modules in Hadoop framework.
31.What is Mapreduce?
32.What is Chukwa?
33.What is AVRO?
34.What is zookeeper?

2. Dr Gnanasekaran Thangavel, Professor and Head, RMK College of Engineering and Technology, Chennai
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35.What is HIVE?
36.What are the tasks of job monitoring?
37.What is Pig data flow language?
38.What is Scoop?
39.What is input splitting?
40.What are the operational modes of Hadoop?
41.Give the features of HDFS.
42.List down the parts of grid FTP?
43.What is meant by mutual authentication?
44.What is namenode?
45.What is datanode?
46.Name the various implementations of file systems in Hadoop.
47.What is meant by Reduce function?
48.What is meant by communication integrity?
8 MARKS
49.Explain Condor-G.
50.List some major commands in Hadoop.
51.Describe the salient features of Sungrid Engine.
52.Describe in detail about Hadoop framework.
53.Describe the file read and write process in Hadoop.
16 MARKS
54.Explain briefly the open source grid middleware packages.
55.Discuss in detail about the hadoop framework with mapreduce and input splitting.
56.Give a brief overview of GT4 architecture.
57.Explain the programming model of GT4.
58.Discuss the Concepts of globus GT4 Architecture.
59.Explain the design of hadoop file system.
60.How to configure and run a job in Hadoop?
61.Elucidate the role of Java in Hadoop.
62.Discuss briefly about the dataflow of file read and write.
63.Explain Mapreduce in detail