Introduction to Cloud Computing

All cloud computing applications suffer from the inherent _______ that is intrinsic in their WAN connectivity.

• Propagation

• Latency

• Noise

• All of the Above

Cloud computing is a _______ system and it is necessarily unidirectional in nature.

• Stateless

• Stateful

• Reliable

• All of the above

What is cloud Computing replacing?

• Corporate data centers

• Expensive personal computer hardware

• Expensive software upgrades

• All of the above

Which of these is a cloud computing pricing model?

• Free

• Pay Per Use

• Subscription

• Perpetual License

what widely used services is built on cloud computing technology?

• Twitter

• Gmail

• YouTube

• Skype

• All of the above

Cloud computing embraces many concepts that were previously touted as the next big thing in information technology. Which of these are an antecedent of the cloud?

• Software as a services

• Utility computing

• Remote hosted services

• Desktop computing

The term "Cloud Computing" is a metaphor that originated in what?

• Graphical depiction of computer architecture

• Meteorological symbolism

• Worries about an unclear future for computing architecture

• The idea that computer user trust in magic

_________ computing refers to applications and services that run on a distributed network using virtualized resources.

Point out the wrong statement:

• All applications benefit from deployment in the cloud

• With cloud computing, you can start very small and become big very fast

• Cloud computing is revolutionary, even if the technology it is built on is evolutionary

• None of the mentioned

Which of the following cloud concept is related to pooling and sharing of resources ?

• Polymorphism

• Abstraction

• Virtualization

• None of the above