NPTEL Cloud Computing Week 5 Assignment Answers 2025
1. Multiple KPIs are aggregated to SLA.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
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2. Statement I: In resource management, resource allocation is the allocation of a service provider’s resources to a customer
Statement II: Resource mapping is correspondence between resources required by the users and
resources available with the provider.
Which of the options is/are correct?
A. Statement I is TRUE and Statement II is FALSE
B. Statement I is FALSE and Statement Il is TRUE
C. Both statements are TRUE
D. Both statements are FALSE
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3. A third party application runs in the cloud for 12 hours/day. At the end of one month [30 days], it was found that the cloud service suffered 5 outages of durations: 1 hour 30 minutes, 30 minutes, 2 hours 15 minutes, 1 hour 45 minutes and T hours, each on different days over the service period. Suppose a cloud guarantees service availability for 97% of time. What are the possible value(s) of T that SLA negotiation gets honored in terms of service availability?
A. 3 hours
B. 6 hours
C. 12 hours
D. 8 hours
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4. In a MapReduce framework, the HDFS block size is 64 Mb. We have 3 files of size 65 Kb, 64 Mb and 128 Mb. How many input splits will be created by the Hadoop framework?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
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5. What is/are the correct statements) regarding VM load management?
A. When load increases, new VMs should be scheduled to new nodes.
B. When load decreases, use WOL to start up waiting nodes.
C. When load increases, use WOL to start up waiting nodes.
D. When load decreases, live migrate VMs to more utilized nodes.
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6. Which of the following is/are the objectives) of Resource Management?
A. Improved Quality of Service (QoS)
B. Scalability
C. Increased overhead
D. Increased throughput
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7. The correct statements) for necessary and sufficient conditions for the detection of inheritance
conflict is/are:
A. Sufficient condition: current entry role and at least one exit role forms conflicting pair
B. Sufficient condition: current entry role is senior to at least one exit role
C. Necessary condition: current entry role is senior to at least one exit role
D. Necessary condition: at least one exit role
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8. Which of the following parts) of the MapReduce is responsible for processing one or more chunks of data and producing the output results?
A. Mapper
B. Reducer
C. Map task
D. Task execution
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9. Consider that the peak computing demand for an organization is 200 units. The demand as a
function of time can be expressed as D(t) = 3(1+t). Baseline (owned) unit cost is 120 and cloud
unit cost is 125.
Cloud is costlier than owning for a period of 150 time units.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
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10. Which of the following is/are resource provisioning approaches?
A. Intelligent multi-agent model
B. Network queueing model
C. Adaptive resource provisioning
D. Reinforcement learning guided control policy
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