NPTEL CC Feb-Apr 2019 Assignment-Week 2

NPTEL Online Certification Courses
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Cloud Computing
Assignment- Week 2
TYPE OF QUESTION: MCQ/MSQ
[One or more options may be correct]
Number of questions: 10 Total mark: 10 X 1 = 10

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QUESTION 1:
Virtualization assigns a logical name for a physical resource and then provides a pointer to
that physical resource when a request is made
a) True
b) False
Correct Answer: a
Solution: Virtualization basically allows one computer to do the job of multiple

computers, by sharing the resources of a single hardware across multiple environments.
Virtualization is way to run multiple operating systems and user applications on the same
hardware
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QUESTION 2:
SOAP is a format for sending messages and is also called as __________.
(a) Network protocol

(b) Data Transfer protocol
(c) Communication protocol
(d) XML description protocol
Correct Answer: c
Solution: SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a format for sending messages over
Internet between programs.
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QUESTION 3:
In public cloud, the workload location is visible to public.
(a) True
(b) False
Correct Answer: b
Solution: In public cloud, workload locations are hidden from clients (public):– In the
public scenario, a provider may migrate a subscriber's workload, whether processing or
data, at any time.
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QUESTION 4:
Which is not a correct name for an XML element?
a) <doremon>
b) <dora_mon>
c) <doreamon cartoon>
d) <harry potter>
Correct Answer: c,d
Solution: A XML element name can only start with a letter character (this includes
underscore, then the next characters can be letter characters or numbers or the hyphen,
but the space is a delimiter and is not allowed as part of any name
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QUESTION 5:
Web Services are not used to -
(a) Reuse application-components.

(b) Solve the interoperability problem
(c) Connect existing software
(d) Implement client-server paradigm
Correct Answer: d
Solution: Web services - An application component that: Communicates via open

protocols (HTTP, SMTP, etc.), processes XML messages framed using SOAP, describes its
messages using XML Schema, provides an endpoint description using WSDL and can be
discovered using UDDI. However, it is not used to deploy client-server paradigm.
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QUESTION 6:
The basic Web Services platform is combination of _____ and _______.
(a) CSS+HTTP
(b) XML+JAVA
(c) XML+HTTP
(d) XML+HTML
Correct Answer: c
Solution: Web services use XML (eXtensible Markup Language : A uniform data
representation and exchange mechanism) and HTTP (most firewalls allow access though
port 80 (HTTP), leading to easier and dynamic collaboration)
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QUESTION 7:
_________ is a directory for storing information about web services.
(a) UDDI
(b) SOAP
(c) HTTP
(d) XML Namespace
Correct Answer: a
Solution: UDDI – Universal Description, Discovery and Integration specification: A

mechanism to register and locate WS (Web service) based application.
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QUESTION 8:
In WSDL a <portType> refers to
(a) TCP/IP or UDP port on the server

(b) The operations that can be performed, and the messages that are involved
(c) The actual protocol used in the Web Service
(d) Only the messages that are involved including their types and elements to be
used
Correct Answer: b
Solution: A WSDL document is just a simple XML document. It defines a web service
using these major elements:
• port type - The operations performed by the web service.
• message - The messages used by the web service.
• types - The data types used by the web service.
• binding - The communication protocols used by the web service
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QUESTION 9:
Virtual Machines (VMs) are offered in cloud by
(a) SaaS
(b) PaaS
(c) IaaS
(d) None of these
Correct Answer: c
Solution: IaaS component stack comprises of hardware, operating system, middleware,

and applications layers.
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QUESTION 10:
XML is similar to
(a) CSV
(b) Java Script
(c) SGML
(d) UML
Correct Answer: c
Solution: XML is developed from Standard Generalized Markup Method (SGML)

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Number of questions: 10 Total mark: 10 X 1 = 10

Solution: Virtualization basically allows one computer to do the job of multiple

(a) Network protocol

Correct Answer: c,d

(a) Reuse application-components.

Solution: Web services - An application component that: Communicates via open

Solution: UDDI – Universal Description, Discovery and Integration specification: A

(a) TCP/IP or UDP port on the server

Solution: IaaS component stack comprises of hardware, operating system, middleware,

Solution: XML is developed from Standard Generalized Markup Method (SGML)

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