Reg No.

Agni College of Technology

Thalambur, Chennai 600 130
Office of Examcell
Internal Test-2
Sub Name : Grid and Cloud computing
Sub Code : CS6703 Department : CSE
Date : 25.08.18 Year & Sec : IV A & B
Timing : 12:45 pm to 3.45 pm Max Mark : 100 Marks

PART – A (10 x 2 = 20 Marks)

1. Differentiate between Public and Private cloud. CO1, CO5
2. Define virtualization and its goal. CO2
3. Define Micro Kernel and Monolithic hypervisor. CO2
4. What is Cloud Computing? CO5
5. Why do we need a hybrid cloud? CO1,CO5
6. How divide-and-conquer strategy does relate to MapReduce paradigm? CO4
7. Brief out the main components of Globus toolkit. CO4
8. Write the significant use of GRAM. CO3,CO4
9. What are the most common GT3 security handlers? CO4
10. Differentiate Name nodes and Data nodes. CO3

PART – B (5x 16 = 80 Marks)

11. (a) (i) Give the importance of cloud computing and elaborate the different types of [CO2]
services offered by it. [15]
(Or)
(b) (i) Discuss how virtualization is implemented in different layers. [CO2]
[15]

12. (a) (i) What do you mean by a data centre automation using virtualization? [CO2]
[15]
(Or)
(b) (i) What is virtualization? Describe Para and full virtualization architectures. [CO2]
Compare and contrast them. [15]

13. (a) (i) Explain in detail about live migration in VM. [CO2]
[15]

(Or)
(b) (i) Explain in detail about virtual cluster and resource management. [CO2]
[15]
14. (a) (i) Illustrate dataflow in HDFS during file read/write operation with suitable [CO3]
diagrams. [10]
(ii) Explain about Hadoop Framework. [CO3]
[5]
(Or)
(b) (i) “Virtualization is the wave of the future”. Justify. Explicate the process of CPU, [CO4]
memory and I/O device virtualization in data center. [15]

15. (a) (i) What is GT4? Describe in detail the components of GT4 with a suitable diagram. [CO3]
[15]
(Or)
(b) (i) Describe service and deployment models of cloud computing environment with [CO2]
illustrations. How do they fit in NIST cloud architecture? [10]
(ii) Explain pros and cons of cloud computing. [CO2]
[5]

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