Cloud Computing Solved MCQs for Engineering Set 4

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1. Which one of the statement is generally NOT correct for Microkernelized Hypervisor?

A. Drivers run within guests

B. Simple partitioning functionality

C. Increase reliability and minimize lowest level of the TCB

D. Contains its own drivers model

ANSWER: D. Contains its own drivers model

2. In multiple VM processing, CPU is alloted to the different processes in form of:

A. Space slices by the OS

B. Different CPUs are allocated to different processes

C. Time slices by the OS

D. Frequency slices by the OS

ANSWER: C. Time slices by the OS

3. Appear IQ, Mendix, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Beanstalk, Google App Engine and Heroku, are some of the example of providing services for:

A. IAAS

B. SAAS

C. PAAS

D. None

ANSWER: C. PAAS

4. Which one of the cases not impacting major system availability

A. Service performance degrade

B. Service outage by unplanned downtime

C. Live migration of VM for load balancing

D. Service outage by planned downtime

ANSWER: C. Live migration of VM for load balancing

5. Which of the following is the central application in the AWS portfolio?

A. Amazon elastic compute cloud

B. Amazon simple queue service

C. Amazon simple notification service

D. Amazon simple storage system

ANSWER: A. Amazon elastic compute cloud

6. Which of the following is a message queue or transaction system for distributed Internet-based applications?

A. Amazon elastic compute cloud

B. Amazon simple queue service

C. Amazon simple notification service

D. Amazon simple storage system

ANSWER: B. Amazon simple queue service

7. Which of the following feature is used for scaling of EC2 sites?

A. Auto replica

B. Auto-scaling

C. Auto ruling

D. All of the mentioned

ANSWER: B. Auto-scaling

8. Which of the following provides a bridge between a company’s existing network and the AWS cloud?

A. Amazon virtual private cloud

B. AWS premium support

C. Amazon fulfillment web services

D. All of the mentioned

ANSWER: A. Amazon virtual private cloud

9. Point out the wrong statement.

A. Between FBA and FWS, you can create a nearly virtual store on amazon.com

B. Amazon plans to extend the capabilities of VPC to integrate with other systems in the amazon cloud computing portfolio

C. FPS is exposed as an API that sorts transactions into packages called quickstarts that makes it easy to implement

D. None of the mentioned

ANSWER: B. Amazon plans to extend the capabilities of VPC to integrate with other systems in the amazon cloud computing portfolio

10. Which of the following is Amazon’s technical support and consulting business?

A. Amazon virtual private cloud

B. AWS premium support

C. Amazon fulfillment web services

D. All of the mentioned

ANSWER: B. AWS premium support

11. Which of the following is a method for bidding on unused EC2 capacity basedon the current spot price?

A. On-demand instance

B. Reserved instances

C. Spot instance

D. All of the mentioned

ANSWER: C. Spot instance

12. Point out the wrong statement.

A. The standard instances are not suitable for standard server applications

B. High memory instances are useful for large data throughput applications such as SQL server databases and data caching and retrieval

C. FPS is exposed as an API that sorts transactions into packages called quickstarts that makes it easy to implement

D. None of the mentioned

ANSWER: A. The standard instances are not suitable for standard server applications

13. Which of the following instance has an hourly rate with no long-termcommitment?

A. On-demand instance

B. Reserved instances

C. Spot instance

D. All of the mentioned

ANSWER: A. On-demand instance

14. Which of the following tool is used for measuring I/O of your systems toestimate these transaction costs?

A. EBS

B. iostat

C. esw

D. All of the mentioned

ANSWER: B. iostat

15. Point out the wrong statement.

A. The cost of creating an EBS volume is lesser than creating a similarly sized S3 bucket

B. An EBS volume can be used as an instance boot partition

C. EBS boot partitions can be stopped and started, and they offer fast AMI boot times

D. None of the mentioned

ANSWER: A. The cost of creating an EBS volume is lesser than creating a similarly sized S3 bucket

16. Which of the following is also referred to edge computing?

A. Cloudwave

B. Cloudfront

C. Cloudspot

D. All of the mentioned

ANSWER: B. Cloudfront

17. Amazon EMR uses Hadoop processing combined with several                      products.

A. AWS

B. ASQ

C. AMR

D. AWES

ANSWER: A. AWS

18. What is a virtual server platform that allows users to create and run virtual machines on Amazon’s server farm.

A. Azure

B. EC2

C. EC5

D. None of the mentioned

ANSWER: B. EC2

19.                                  is the central application in the AWS portfolio.

A. Amazon simple queue service

B. Amazon elastic compute cloud

C. Amazon simple notification service

D. All of the above

ANSWER: B. Amazon elastic compute cloud

20. Which of the following is a means for accessing human researchers or consultants to help solve problems on a contractual or temporary basis?

A. Amazon Elastic MapReduce

B. Amazon Mechanical Turk

C. Amazon DevPay

D. Multi-factor Authentication

ANSWER: B. Amazon Mechanical Turk

21. Point out the wrong statement.

A. Virtual private servers can provision virtual private clouds connected through virtual private networks

B. Amazon web services is based on soa standards

C. Starting in 2012, amazon.com made its web service platform available to developers on a usage-basis model

D. All of the mentioned

ANSWER: C. Starting in 2012, amazon.com made its web service platform available to developers on a usage-basis model

22. Point out the correct statement.

A. SQL server is having an enormous impact on cloud computing

B. Amazon.com’s services represent the largest pure infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

C. EC2 is a platform as a service (PaaS) market

D. None of the mentioned

ANSWER: B. Amazon.com’s services represent the largest pure infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

23. Which of the following is a system for creating block level storage devices thatcan be used for Amazon Machine Instances in EC2?

A. Cloudwatch

B. Amazon Elastic Blockstore

C. AWS import/export

D. All of the mentioned

ANSWER: B. Amazon Elastic Blockstore

24. Which of the following allows merchants to fill orders through Amazon.com fulfillment service?

A. Amazon elastic compute cloud

B. Amazon fulfillment web services

C. Amazon relational database service

D. Amazon simple storage system

ANSWER: B. Amazon fulfillment web services

25. Point out the correct statement.

A. With EC2, you can launch and run server instances called amazon machine images (AMIs) running different operating systems such as red hat linux

B. A machine image is the software and operating system running on top of the instance

C. A machine image may be thought of as the contents of a boot drive

D. All of the mentioned

ANSWER: D. All of the mentioned

26. Which of the following provides access for developers to charge Amazon’scustomers for their purchases?

A. FWS

B. FAS

C. FPS

D. All of the mentioned

ANSWER: C. FPS

27. Which of the following uses an authentication device?

A. Amazon Elastic MapReduce

B. Amazon Mechanical Turk

C. Amazon DevPay

D. Multi-factor Authentication

ANSWER: D. Multi-factor Authentication

28. Which of the following is a batch processing application?

A. IBM Smash

B. IBM WebSphere application server

C. Condor

D. Windows Mediaserver

ANSWER: C. Condor

29. Point out the correct statement.

A. Security can be set through passwords, Kerberos tickets, or certificates

B. Secure access to your EC2 AMIs is controlled by passwords, Kerberos, and 509 certificates

C. Most of the system image templates that amazon AWS offers are based on red hat linux

D. All of the mentioned

ANSWER: D. All of the mentioned

30. How many EC2 service zones or regions exist?

A. 1

B. 2

C. 3

D. 4

ANSWER: D. 4

31. Amazon              cloud-based storage system allows you to store data objectsranging in size from 1 byte up to 5GB.

A. S1

B. S2

C. S3

D. S4

ANSWER: C. S3

32. CloudFront supports              data by performing static data transfers andstreaming content from one CloudFront location to another.

A. Table caching

B. Geocaching

C. Index caching

D. Windows Mediaserver

ANSWER: B. Geocaching

33. Point out the correct statement.

A. A volume is mounted on a particular instance and is available to allinstances

B. The advantages of an ebs boot partition are that you can have a volume up to 1tb

C. You cannot mount multiple volumes on a single instance

D. All of the mentioned

ANSWER: B. The advantages of an ebs boot partition are that you can have a volume up to 1tb

34. Data stored in                      domains doesn’t require maintenance of a schema.

A. Simpledb

B. Sql server

C. Oracle

D. RDS

ANSWER: A. Simpledb

35. Amazon Web Services falls into which of the following cloud-computingcategory?

A. Platform as a service

B. Software as a service

C. Infrastructure as a service

D. Back-end as a service

ANSWER: C. Infrastructure as a service

36. AWS reaches customers in how many countries?

A. 137

B. 182

C. 190

D. 86

ANSWER: C. 190

37. Which of the following should be used considering factors shown in the figure?

Database selection for the use case

A. Simpledb

B. RDS

C. Amazon EC2

D. All of the mentioned

ANSWER: B. RDS

38. Point out the wrong statement.

A. Amazon machine instances are sized at various levels and rented on a computing/hour basis

B. The metrics obtained by cloudwatch may be used to enable a feature called auto scaling

C. A number of tools are used to support ec2 services

D. None of the mentioned

ANSWER: D. None of the mentioned

39. Which of the following is built on top of a Hadoop framework using the Elastic Compute Cloud?

A. Amazon Elastic MapReduce

B. Amazon Mechanical Turk

C. Amazon Devpay

D. Multi-factor authentication

ANSWER: A. Amazon Elastic MapReduce

40. Which of the following correctly describes components roughly in their order of importance from top to down?

A. 1. Amazon elastic compute cloud 2. Amazon simple storage system 3. Amazon elasticblock store

B. 1. Amazon elastic block store 2. Amazon elastic compute cloud 3. Amazon simplestorage system

C. 1. Amazon simple storage system 2. Amazon elastic block store 3. Amazon elasticcompute cloud

D. None of the mentioned

ANSWER: A. 1. Amazon elastic compute cloud 2. Amazon simple storage system 3. Amazon elasticblock store

41. Which of the following is a Web service that can publish messages from an application and deliver them to other applications or to subscribers?

A. Amazon Elastic compute cloud

B. Amazon Simple queue service

C. Amazon Simple notification service

D. Amazon Simple storage system

ANSWER: C. Amazon Simple notification service

42. Which of the following metrics are used to support Elastic Load Balancing?

A. Cloudwatch

B. Amazon elastic blockstore

C. AWS import/export

D. All of the mentioned

ANSWER: A. Cloudwatch

43. Which of the following is an online backup and storage system?

A. Amazon elastic compute cloud

B. Amazon simple queue service

C. Amazon simple notification service

D. Amazon simple storage system

ANSWER: D. Amazon simple storage system

44.                    is a virtual server platform that allows users to create and runvirtual machines on Amazon’s server farm.

A. EC2

B. Azure

C. EC5

D. None of the mentioned

ANSWER: A. EC2

45. AMIs are operating systems running on the            virtualization hypervisor.

A. yen

B. xen

C. ben

D. multi-factor authentication

ANSWER: B. xen

46. Which of the following instance class is best used for applications that areprocessor or compute-intensive?

A. Standard instances

B. High memory instances

C. High CPU instances

D. None of the mentioned

ANSWER: C. High CPU instances

47. Which of the following can be done with S3 buckets through the SOAP and REST APIs?

A. Upload new objects to a bucket and download them

B. Create, edit, or delete existing buckets

C. Specify where a bucket should be stored

D. All of the mentioned

ANSWER: D. All of the mentioned

48. Which of the following operation retrieves the newest version of the object?

A. Put

B. Get

C. Post

D. Copy

ANSWER: B. Get

49. Which of the following statement is wrong about Amazon S3?

A. Amazon s3 is highly reliable

B. Amazon s3 provides large quantities of reliable storage that is highly protected

C. Amazon s3 is highly available

D. None of the mentioned

ANSWER: C. Amazon s3 is highly available

50. Which of the following is relational database service provided by Amazon?

A. Simpledb

B. Sql server

C. Oracle

D. RDS

ANSWER: D. RDS