IGNOU MCA NEW MCS 227 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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MCS 227 (January 2025 - July 2025) - ENGLISH

Course Code : MCS-227

Course Title : Cloud Computing and IoT

Assignment Number : MCA_NEW(III)/227/Assign/2025

Maximum Marks : 100

Weightage : 30%

Last Dates for Submission : 30th April, 2025 (for January session)

31st October, 2025 (for July session)

This assignment has 16 questions of 5 Marks each, amounting to 80 marks. Answer all questions. Rest 20 marks are for viva voce. You may use illustrations and diagrams to enhance the explanations. Please go through the guidelines regarding assignments given in the Programme Guide for the format of presentation.

Q1: What is Cloud Computing ? How Cloud Computing differs from Cluster Computing , Grid Computing ? Explain the characteristics of Cloud Computing. Also, give benefits & applications of Cloud Computing.

Q2: What do you understand by the term “Cloud Deployment Model”. Explain the following Cloud Deployment Models, with suitable example for each.

 Public Cloud Deployment Model

 Private Cloud Deployment Model

 Community Cloud Deployment Model

 Hybrid Cloud Deployment Model

Also, discuss when it is suitable to use which cloud deployment model

Q3: Explain the virtualization environment with the help of suitable diagram and example

Q4: Explain the following features of virtualization:

(i) Sharing

(ii) Aggregation

(iii)Emulation

(iv) Isolation

Q5: Explain the term Server Level Virtualization. What are the advantages of Server Level Virtualization. List the various Server Level Virtualization techniques used in cloud computing

Q6: What is an Hypervisor? Compare the functionality of Type-1 and Type-2 Hypervisor with the help of suitable block diagram for each, also give advantages and disadvantages of each.

Q7: Differentiate between the following:

(i) Full virtualization and Para-virtualization

(ii) Citrix XenServer hypervisors and VMware hypervisors

Q8: What is a Resource pool ? Explain Resource pooling architecture. Explain the various types of storage pools available.

Q9: What to do you understand by the term Resource Sharing? How the concept of Resource Sharing relates to cloud computing ?

Q10: What is Tenancy in context of cloud computing ? Compare Multi-Tenancy model and Single Tenancy model of resource sharing

Q11: Explain the term Resource Provisioning in context of cloud computing. Also, explain the various approaches used for Resource Provisioning. Discuss the problems of Over-provisioning and Underprovisioning.

Q12: Explain the term Virtual Machine(VM) sizing. Also, compare the Individual VM based sizing with Joint VM based sizing.

Q13: Explain the importance of scaling in cloud computing? How proactive scaling is achieved through virtualization? Write differences between proactive and reactive scaling strategies.

Q14: Explain the term Internet of Things (IoT).List and explain the various components used to implement IoT. Give characteristics of IoT. Briefly discuss the following types of IoT:

(i) Consumer IoT (CIoT)

(ii) Industrial IoT(IIoT)

(iii) Infrastructure IoT

(iv) Internet of Military Things (IoMT)

Q15: What are sensors? Give static and dynamic characteristics of sensors. How sensors differs from actuators? Discuss the role of Sensors and Actuators in IoT. Also elaborate, How Machine to Machine (M2M) technology differs from IoT.

Q16: What is Edge computing? Discuss the working of Edge computing. Also, describe the relation between Edge computing, Fog computing and Cloud Computing, with the help of a suitable block diagram ?

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