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Cloud Computing
Assignment- Week 3
One or more options may be correct.
Number of questions: 10 Total mark: 10 X 1 = 10
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QUESTION 1:
A formal contract between a Service Provider (SP) and a Service Consumer (SC) is
known as

a. Service Level Agreement

b. Service Level Objectives
c. Quality of Service
d. Cloud Economics

Correct Answer: a

Detailed Solution: A formal contract between a Service Provider (SP) and a

Service Consumer (SC) is known as Service Level Agreement.

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QUESTION 2:
In cloud, service uptime is 64 minutes and downtime is 16 minutes. What is the
availability of the service?

a. 0.25
b. 0.75
c. 4
d. 4/3

Correct Answer: b

Detailed Solution: Availability = 1 – (downtime/uptime) = 1- (16/64) = 3/4 = 0.75

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QUESTION 3:
Which of the following are the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) of SLA?

a. Downtime
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b. Uptime
c. Inbytes
d. None of the above

Correct Answer: a,b,c

Detailed Solution: Downtime, Uptime, Inbytes are the Key Performance Indicators
(KPI) of SLA.

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QUESTION 4:
Coefficient of variation (Cv) is defined as

a. Absolute value of mean / Standard deviation

b. Standard deviation / Absolute value of mean
c. Absolute value of mean * Standard deviation
d. None of the above

Correct Answer: b

Detailed Solution: Coefficient of variation (Cv) is defined as the ratio of the

standard deviation to the absolute value of mean.

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QUESTION 5:
When is cloud cheaper than owning?

a. When utility premium is more than the ratio of peak demand to average
demand
b. When utility premium is less than the ratio of peak demand to average
demand
c. When utility premium is equal to the ratio of peak demand to average
demand
d. When utility premium is equal to twice the ratio of peak demand to
average demand

Correct Answer: b

Detailed Solution: When utility premium is less than the ratio of peak demand to
average demand, cloud cheaper than owning.
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QUESTION 6:
Statement 1: Row-oriented storage is optimal for transaction processing applications.

Statement 2: Column-oriented storage is efficient for data-warehouse workloads.

Which of the following is correct?

a. Both statement 1 and 2 are correct

b. Statement 1 is correct and statement 2 is false
c. Statement 2 is correct and statement 1 is false
d. Both statement 1 and 2 are false

Correct Answer: a

Detailed Solution: Row-oriented storage is optimal for transaction processing

applications. Column-oriented storage is efficient for data-warehouse workloads.

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QUESTION 7:
Which of the following OpenStack component is used for compute services?

a. Swift
b. Keystone
c. Nova
d. Cinder

Correct Answer: c

Detailed Solution: Nova is used for compute services in OpenStack.

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QUESTION 8:
Which component of OpenStack facilitates the creation and management of block
storage devices?

a. Swift
b. Keystone
c. Nova
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d. Cinder

Correct Answer: d

Detailed Solution: Cinder is used to create and manage the block storage devices
in OpenStack.

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QUESTION 9:
In OpenStack, ephemeral storage is managed by
a. Swift
b. Keystone
c. Nova
d. Cinder

Correct Answer: c

Detailed Solution: Nova manages the ephemeral storage in OpenStack.

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QUESTION 10:
An example of data warehousing database is

a. Oracle
b. DB2
c. Teradata
d. SQL Server

Correct Answer: c

Detailed Solution: Teradata is an example of data warehousing database.

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