MCA E2011
Cloud Computing
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Syllabus topics
Cloud Computing definition, Types of cloud, Cloud services: Benefits and challenges of cloud computing, Evolution of Cloud Computing , Applications cloud computing, Business models around Cloud – Major Players in Cloud Computing - Issues in Cloud - Eucalyptus - Nimbus - Open Nebula, CloudSim. [Q-1]
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Syllabus topics
Cluster Computing, Grid Computing, Grid Computing Versus Cloud Computing, Key Characteristics of Cloud Computing. Cloud Models: Benefits of Cloud Models, Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Community Cloud, Shared Private Cloud, Dedicated Private Cloud, and Dynamic Private Cloud. [Q-2]
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Syllabus topics
Types of Cloud services: Software as a Service - Platform as a Service – Infrastructure as a Service - Database as a Service- Monitoring as a Service – Communication as services. Service providers - Google App Engine, Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Sales force. [Q-2]
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Syllabus topics
Basics of Virtualization - Types of Virtualization - Implementation Levels of Virtualization - Virtualization Structures - Tools and Mechanisms - Virtualization of CPU, Memory, I/O Devices - Virtual Clusters and Resource management – Virtualization for Data-center Automation. Introduction to MapReduce, GFS, HDFS, Hadoop Framework. [Q-2]
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Security Overview – Cloud Security Challenges and Risks – Software-as-a-Service Security – Security Monitoring – Security Architecture Design – Data Security – Application Security – Virtual Machine Security - Identity Management and Access Control – Autonomic Security. [Q-1]
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Syllabus: supplied PDF, page 29.
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