DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SIENCE AND ENGINEERING (UG & PG) CLOUD COMPUTING Final Year Computer Science and Engineering, 8 th Semester 2 Marks Question and Answer Subject Code & Name: Cloud Computing Prepared by:Mr. S.M.Nandhagopal UNIT I 1.Define Cloud Computing with example. Cloud computing is a model for enabli ng convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. For example, Google hosts a cloud that consists of both smallish PCs and larger servers. Google’s cloud is a private one (that is, Google owns it) that is publicly accessible (by Google’s users). 2.What are the properties of Cloud Computing? There are six key properties of cloud computing: Cloud computing is • • •user-centric •task-centric • • •powerful • • •accessible • • •intelligent • • •programmable 3. What is the working principle of Cloud Computing? The cloud is a collection of computers and servers that are publicly accessible via the Internet. This hardware is typically owned and operated by a third party on a consolidated basis in one or more data center locations. The machines can run any combination ofoperating systems. EASA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY NAVAKARAI,COIMBATORE-641105
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Any web-based application or service offered via cloud computing is called a cloud
service. Cloud services can include anything from calendar and contact applications to word
processing and presentations.
6. What are the advantages of cloud services?
•••• If the user’s PC crashes host application and document both remain unaffected in the cloud.
•••• An individual user can access applications and documents from any location on any PC.
•••• Because documents are hosted in the cloud, multiple users can collaborate on the samedocument in real time, using any available Internet connection.
•••• Documents are not machine-centric
7. Why is Cloud Computing important?
There are many implications of cloud technology, for both developers and end users.
For developers, cloud computing provides increased amounts of storage and processingpower to run the applications they develop. Cloud computing also enables new ways to accessinformation, process and analyze data, and connect people and resources from any locationanywhere in the world.For users, documents hosted in the cloud always exist, no matter whathappens to the user’s machine. Users from around the world can collaborate on the samedocuments, applications, and projects, in real time. And cloud computing does all this at lowercosts, because the cloud enables more efficient sharing of resources than does traditionalnetwork computing.
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Google Calendar is free, full featured, and easy to use. It lets the user create both personal
and shared calendars, which makes it ideal for tracking business group, family, and
community schedules
2. What types of calendars can you create with Google Calendar?
•••• Personal calendars, like default calendar
•••• Public calendars, which others can access via the web
•••• Friends’ calendars, which is imported from Google Calendar web pages
•••• Holiday calendars, which add national holidays to a basic calendar
3. Define Yahoo calendar.
One subtle difference in Yahoo! Calendar is the presence of an Add Task button. This
reflects Yahoo! Calendar’s offering of tasks in addition to events. The user can still add
individual items to daily schedule, but can also add longer-term tasks and have due dates show
up on calendar
4. Define Apple MobileMe Calendar
The MobileMe Calendar is a web-based calendar that can be accessed from any computer
connected to the Internet, Mac or Windows. What makes it more unique and potentially moreuseful is that it can also be accessed from Apple’s iPhone, which makes it a truly mobilecalendar.
5. What is Hunt calendar?
Hunt Calendars (www.huntcal.com) offers event-based web calendars. Useful featuresinclude email reminders, notification of event conflicts, notification of new and updated events,and the like.
6. What are the types of calendars in a single interface?
•••• Member Event calendar helps users manage their personal time, keep track of meetings with others, and so on.
•••• Team Event calendar is used to schedule activities for a group, as well as schedulefacilities.
•••• Supervisor calendar provides reports to managers about business activities and schedules.
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Web-based email marketing enable the user to promote event via targeted email messages.Other applications help to create own event website (on cloud computers), which also helps topromote event.
8. List the applications that are offered by 123 Signup.
123 Signup company offers four different applications:
•••• Event Manager
•••• Association Manager
•••• Training Manager
•••• Member Directory
9. What are the modules in the Conference.com?
•••• Appointment Manager
•••• Credit Card Manager
•••• Email Manager,
•••• Export Manager
•••• Hotel Manager
•••• Lead Track Manager
•••• Profile Manager
•••• Registration Manager
•••• Survey Manager
•••• Travel Manager
10. What are the tools provided by Cvent’s Event Management system?
Cvent’s Event Management system is a suite of interrelated tools, including the following:•••• Event Registration
•••• Email Marketing
•••• Secure Online Payment Processing
•••• Housing and Travel Management
•••• Contact Management
•••• Budget Management
•••• Custom Event Websites
•••• Event Workflow Management
•••• Event Calendar
•••• On-Site Functionality
•••• Event Reporting
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Web-based word processors are hosted in the cloud, not on the hard drive—as are thedocuments created with these applications. And these web-based applications mimic thekey features of Microsoft Word.
12. Who should use a Web-Based Word Processor?
•••• Beginning users
•••• Casual users
•••• Anyone who wants access to their documents from multiple locations
•••• Anyone who needs to share their documents with others
•••• Anyone who needs to edit their documents in a collaborative environment
13. Who shouldn’t use one of these applications?
•••• Power users
•••• Anyone who wants to create sophisticated printouts
•••• Anyone working on sensitive documents
•••• Anyone who needs to work when not connected to the Internet
14. List the web-based word processing applications.
•••• Google Docs
•••• Adobe Buzzword
•••• ajaxWrite
•••• Docly
•••• Glide Write
•••• iNetWord
•••• KBdocs•••• Peepel WebWriter
•••• ThinkFree Write
•••• WriteBoard
•••• Zoho Writer
15. What are the most popular web-based office suites applications?
•••• Glide Business (www.glidedigital.com)
•••• Google Docs (docs.google.com)
•••• Peepel Online Office (www.peepel.com)
•••• ThinkFree My Office (www.thinkfree.com)
•••• WebEx Web Office (www.weboffice.com)
•••• Zoho Office (office.zoho.com)
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16. What are the Benefits of Web-Based Spreadsheets?
•••• The spreadsheets can be accessed from any Internet-connected computer, not just thecomputer originally created the spreadsheet with.
•••• Spreadsheets are still accessible even in the case of computer problem or hard disk crash.
•••• The user can share spreadsheets with others—enabling workgroup collaboration with usersin other locations.
•••• In addition, most web-based spreadsheets today are free
17. Who should use a Web-Based spreadsheet?
•••• Beginning users
•••• Casual users
•••• Anyone who wants access to their documents from multiple locations
•••• Anyone who needs to share their documents with others
•••• Anyone who needs to edit their documents in a collaborative environment
18. Who shouldn’t use a Web-Based spreadsheet?
•••• Power users
•••• Anyone who wants to create sophisticated printouts
•••• Anyone working on sensitive documents
•••• Anyone who needs to work when not connected to the Internet web-based word processingapplications
19. List the web-based spreadsheet applications
•••• Google Spreadsheets
•••• EditGrid
•••• eXpresso•••• Glide Crunch
•••• Num Sum
•••• Peepel WebSheet
•••• Sheetster
•••• ThinkFree Calc
•••• Zoho Sheet
20. How Online Databases Work?
An online or web-based database stores data on a cloud of servers somewhere on theInternet, which is accessible by any authorized user with an Internet connection. The primaryadvantage of a web-based database is that data can easily be shared with a large number of other users, no matter where they may be located.
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22. What are the advantages of using Dabble DB application?
Dabble DB offers three ways to share user data.•••• The Pages option enables the user to collect data from other users without granting access to
the underlying database.
•••• The Users option lets other users access the raw data in the database.
•••• The Schema option uses the Dabble DB JavaScript API to let others interact with data onother websites.
23. What are the features of myWebDB?
•••• Good-looking interfaces
•••• Navigation menus
•••• Editable data grids•••• Intuitive data entry screens
24. What is Zoho Creator?
Zoho Creator (creator.zoho.com) is a versatile data repository, complete with data-entryforms and spreadsheet-like list views. While easy to use, Zoho Creator is robust enough to letthe user create their own simple database applications.
Zoho offers two different database products: Zoho Creator and Zoho DB & Reports. Of thetwo, Zoho Creator is the easiest to use and best suited for casual users.
25. List the web-based presentation applications.
•••• BrinkPad
•••• Empressr
•••• Google Presentations
•••• Preezo
•••• Presentation Engine
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Web-based email services are also known as web mail or HTTP email. Unlike traditionalPOP email, web mail can be accessed from any PC using any web browser, and all messages
are stored on the web, not locally. It’s just like a cloud service; no special software required.
2. List the popular Web Mail Services.
•••• Gmail
•••• Yahoo! Mail
•••• Windows Live Hotmail
•••• Apple MobileMe Mail
2. List the Instant Messaging Services.
•••• AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ
•••• Google Talk
•••• Windows Live Messenger
•••• Yahoo! Messenger
3. What is AIM?
The most-used instant messaging program is AOL Instant Messenger (www.aim.com),
also known as AIM. AIM supports all manner of special features in addition to basic text
messaging. The users get file sharing, RSS feeds, group chats, ability to text message to and
from mobile phones, voice chat, video chat, and even a mobile client and can also enhance the
basic AIM experience with a variety of official and user-created plug-ins.
PBwiki (www.pbwiki.com) offers various levels of wiki hosting. Small wikis (one to three
users) are free; larger ones are priced as low as $4 per user per month. Wiki creation is easy,thanks to a variety of premade templates. The user also get online file storage to help organize
other documents as part of the wiki.
20. What is Versionate?
Versionate (www.versionate.com) offers hosted wikis designed for group collaboration. A
Versionate wiki is business friendly, because of SSL-level security and full control over editing
privileges. The user can also import Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF documents into wiki.
The company offers several different plans: Free (500MB storage), Personal (2GB storagefor $2/month), Business (unlimited storage for $25/month), and Enterprise (unlimited storage
for $2/user/month).
PART B
1. Explain about evaluating web mail services and Evaluating instant messaging
2. Explain about evaluating web conference tools.
3. How to create groups on social networks? Explain with example.
4. Explain in detail about Evaluating on line groupware.
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