$1.$ Definitions $($Terms You Should Be Familiar With$)$:

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First Level Terms:

$1.$ Cloud Consumer.

$2.$ Cloud Provider

$3.$ Cloud Carrier

$4.$ Cloud Broker

$5.$ Cloud Auditor

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Second Level Terms:

$8.$ Service Deployment

$9.$ Service Orchestration

$18.$ Security Audit

$19.$ Privacy$-$Impact Audit

$20.$ Performance Audit

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Third Level Terms:

$21.$ Service Intermediation

$22.$ Service Aggregation

$23.$ Service Arbitrage

$24.$ Private Cloud

$26.$ Public Cloud

$27.$ Hybrid Cloud

$31.$ Portability

$32.$ Interoperability

$33.$ Provisioning$/$Configuration

$34.$ Mobile Endpoints

$35.$ Fixed Endpoints

$41.$ Monitoring and Reporting

$42.$ Metering

$43.$ SLA management

Cloud Security

$1.$ What is DDoS and why is it important for both Cloud Consumers and Cloud Providers?

Cloud Virtualization

$2.$ What is the difference between a Type $1$ Hypervisor and Type $2$ Hypervisor?

Containers

$3.$ What is the main difference between containers and VMs$?$

$4.$ What distinguishes Kubernetes from Docker Swarm

$5.$ Name $3$ Primary Container Usecases

IoT$/$Drones

$6.$ What is MQTT$,$ and how is it relevant in IoT Applications$/$Solutions

Machine Learning

$7.$ What is TensorFlow?

$8.$ What is the difference between a GPU and TPU?

$9.$ What are the ML services offered in GCP$?$

Cloud Infrastructure

$10.$ Identify the need for and techniques behind automation and orchestration of resources, as

well as key scheduling considerations in the cloud.

$11.$ Describe challenges and requirements for a cloud$-$centric data center and how they differ

from large, single$-$entity warehouse$-$scale computers.

$12.$ What changes should be made to the design of future applications software, infrastructure

software, and hardware to match the needs and opportunities of Cloud Computing?

$13.$ List some of the enabling technologies in cloud computing and discuss their significance

$14.$ List $10$ obstacles in Cloud Computing along with a $1$ sentence description on the resolution to

the obstacle

Cloud Economics

$1.$ Articulate the economic benefits as well as issues$/$risks of the cloud paradigm for businesses

$($cloud consumers$)$ as well as cloud providers

$2.$ Identify major reasons for why virtualization is useful, especially on the cloud.

Cloud Resource Management

$1.$ Outline recent developments in software defined networking and software defined storage

from the cloud computing perspective.

Cloud Storage

$1.$ Identify the problems of scale and management in big data. Discuss various storage

abstractions$.$

$2.$ List the various types of data within the data taxonomy and classify different data types within

the data taxonomy.

General Cloud Computing Questions:

$1.($EXTRA CREDIT$)$ Choose the most appropriate architectural pattern and cloud services for

the $5$ description below. Motivate for your choices $($give reasons for choosing the pattern$)$:

a$.$ Wants to split a system into a number of computationally independent execution

structures $($groups of software and hardware$)$ such as database, business logic, web

interface and client, connected by some communication media. The structure is chosen

to provide a specific server environment optimized for operational requirements and

resource usage.

b$.$ Wants to set up a set of equally distributed computational entities that are connected via

a common protocol to share their services and provide high availability and scalability.

c$.$ Wants a system that can be divided into reusable, loosely coupled components that can

be flexibly combined and arranged to transform between various data formats.

d$.$ Wants a distributed system with a structure that enables that service users do not need to

know the nature or location of service providers.

e$.$ Wants a system that quickly can analyze enormous volumes of data by sorting the data

and then analyzing the group data.