Cloud Computing

State the five essential characteristics of Cloud Computing.

What is Platform as a Service (PaaS)?

Define Grid Computing.

What is a Community Cloud?

State the purpose of a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM).

What is Amazon S3 used for?

Define Elasticity in Cloud Computing.

What is a Web Browser's role in SaaS?

Name any two cloud service providers.

Define serverless computing.

Briefly describe the evolution of Cloud Computing from cluster and grid computing.

What is Amazon EC2? Explain its core features.

Differentiate between hardware-level and OS-level virtualization.

Discuss data replication in HDFS.

Explain the role of an Identity Provider in Cloud IAM.

Discuss load balancing in Cloud Computing.

How does vendor lock-in affect cloud consumers? Suggest a mitigation strategy.

Explain the various deployment models of Cloud Computing. Discuss their relative advantages, disadvantages, and use cases.

Discuss Resource Management and Scheduling in Cloud Computing. Explain any two task scheduling algorithms used in cloud environments.

What is the Hadoop Ecosystem? Detail the functions of NameNode, DataNode, JobTracker, and TaskTracker.

Explain Service Level Agreements (SLA) in cloud computing. How are SLAs monitored and managed to ensure Quality of Service (QoS)?

Detail the security architecture for Cloud Computing. Discuss various threats, vulnerabilities, and the counter-measures implemented in modern cloud platforms.