AL604 (A) - Cloud Computing

Discuss the role of middleware and management software in Grid and Cloud computing architectures.

Explain how public Cloud providers address security concerns through encryption, access controls, and compliance certifications.

Explain how elastic computing allows organizations to dynamically scale resources up or down based on demand fluctuations.

Explain the concept of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and its relevance to Cloud design.

Discuss Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) and its role in managing data throughout its lifecycle, from creation to deletion.

Discuss the architecture of VDI solutions and the components involved, including virtual desktops, hypervisors, and connection brokers.

Explain the role of hypervisors in server virtualization and provide examples of popular hypervisor platforms.

Explain the concepts of Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network-Attached Storage (NAS) in the context of storage virtualization.

Explain how virtualized data centers enable organizations to deploy and scale applications more efficiently in modern IT environments.

Discuss the importance of vulnerability assessment in cloud environments and its role in identifying and mitigating security risks.

Discuss the importance of contractual agreements, such as SLAs and DPAs, in ensuring privacy and security compliance in the cloud.

Define autonomic security and explain how it involves self-configuring, self-healing, and self-protecting mechanisms to adapt to changing security threats in cloud environments.

Discuss how IaaS providers expose infrastructure services as reusable and composable components that can be accessed and organized using SOA principles.

Define OLAP and explain its role in business intelligence (BI) applications for analyzing and querying large datasets.

Write a short note on any two: (i) Cloud Performance Monitoring Commands (ii) Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) (iii) Virtual Machine Introspection (VMI) (iv) Issues in Cloud Computing.