NPTEL CLOUD COMPUTING-1 2025

Which of the following fall(s) under the “essential characteristics” of cloud computing?

• Resource Pooling

• Measured Service

• Rapid Elasticity

• Latency

“Google Doc” is an example of

• PaaS

• IaaS

• SaaS

• FaaS

Business-Process-as-a-Service is not a part of XaaS.

• True

• False

Network Function Virtualization involves the implementation of _______ function in software that can run on a range of industry-standard servers ______________.

• network,software

• hardware, software

• hardware, network

• network,hardware

Which are the following applications for SaaS (Software as a Service) architecture?

• Billing software

• CRM

• App engines

• None of above

Web access to commercial software is one of the SaaS characteristics in the cloud computing paradigm.

• True

• False

In the case of the client-server model: Statement (i) Virtualization is a core concept; Statement (ii) system can scale infinitely

• Only Statement (i) is correct

• Only Statement (ii) is correct

• Both Statements (i) and (ii) are correct

• None of the statements is correct

Client-server model is always load-balanced

• True

• False

PaaS (Platform as a Service) brings the benefits: (i) Creation of software (ii) Integration of web services and databases

• Only (i)

• Only (ii)

• Both (i) and (ii)

• Neither (i) nor (ii)

Which of the following is false?

• Private cloud is dedicated solely to an organization.

• Community cloud is a composition of public and private cloud.

• Public cloud is available to the general public.

• None of these