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| What is a challenge posed by having fast multi-core CPUs and traditional hard drives in a cluster of servers? |
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| Summarize in your own words the definition of cloud computing proposed by the NIST. |
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| Allowing network access to a virtual pool of computing resources |
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| What does resource pooling refer to in cloud computing? |
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| Providers resouces are pooled to consumers using virtual and physical resources |
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| What does rapid elasticity refer to in cloud computing? |
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| capabilities are quickly sealed out and rapidly released to scale in |
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| What is a conceptual difference between PaaS and SaaS? |
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| SaaS does not require users to install applications |
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| Why is virtualization key to cloud computing? |
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| Abstracts from physical hardware and produces virtual high level apps |
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| What is a difference between cloud computing and grid computing? |
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| Cloud computing leverages virtualization technolegies from multiple levels |
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| What is utility computing? |
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| charges users on usage rather then a flat rate |
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| What does multitenancy refer to in cloud management? |
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| must be able to support many apps on the same hardware and software infrastructure |
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| Why is the ability to run in heterogeneous environments important to cloud computing? |
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| prevents performance degrading due to parellel processing ondistrabted nodes |
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| What does data lock-in refer to? |
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| API's have not yet been subject of active standardization |
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| What is share-nothing as why is it important to cloud computing? |
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| each nodes is independent, no single point of contention |
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| online public web storage service |
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| Do some online research and look for what Hadoop is and what it is used for. |
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| java programming framework that supports processing of large data sets |
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| Provide a characteristic of a RESTful API. |
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| Provide a characteristic of a NoSQL database |
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| useful for large data sets |
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