ACHARYA NAGARJUNA UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

PRE Ph.D PAPER II CLOUD COMPUTING
(Syllabus of Pre Ph.D Paper 2 form the academic year 2013-2014)

UNIT-I
UNDERSTANDING CLOUD COMPUTING:Beyond the Desktop : An Introduction to
Cloud Computing ,Are you ready for Computing in the Cloud ?,Developing Cloud
Services.

UNIT-II
CLOUD COMPUTING FOR EVERYONE:
Cloud Computing for the Family, Cloud Computing for the Community, Cloud Computing
for the Corporation.

UNIT-III
USING CLOUD SERVICES:
Collaborating on calendars, Schedules and task management,
Collaborating on event management, Collaborating on
Contact Management, Collaborating on Project Management, Collaborating on Word
Processing, Collaborating on Spreadsheets.Collaborating on Databases, Collaborating
on Presentations, Storing and Sharing Files and Other Online Content, Sharing Digital
Photographs, Controlling it all with Web-Based desktops.

UNIT-IV
OUTSIDE THE CLOUD: Other ways to Collaborate Online
Collaborating via Web-Based Communication Tools,Collaborating Social Networks and
Groupware,Collaborating via Blogs and Wikis.

Prescribed book :

Michael Miller, Cloud Computing, Pearson Education, New Delhi.

All the four parts into which the Textbook is devided.

REFERENCES:

1. Haley Beard, Cloud Computing Best Practices for Managing and Measuring
Processes for On-demand Computing, Applications and Data Centers in
theCloud with SLAs, Emereo Pty Limited, July 2008.
2. Cloud Application Architectures, George Reese, ISBN: 8184047142,Shroff/O'
Reilly, 2009.
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PART1/PRE Ph.D PAPER II: CLOUD COMPUTING
Time: 3 Hrs Model Question Paper Max.Marks: 100
Answer Any FIVE questions.
All questions carry equal marks. (5x20=100)

1.
a) Peer-to-peer Computing
b) Collaborative Computing
c) Software as a Service
d) Jotlet
e) Iprioritize
f) Blist
g) eye OS

2. Explain the whole evolution of simple desktop computing to Cloud

Computing during different points of time in the history.

3. a) Who benefits from Cloud Computing ?

b) Discuss about the Pros and Cons of Cloud Service Development.

4. a) Elaborate on usage of Cloud computing for collaborating on contact lists.

b) Discuss about the usage of Cloud Computing in the context of collaborating

on schedules.

5. a) Discuss about Managing Projects.

b) What do you understand by a Virtual Company in the context of Cloud

Computing explain in detail.

6. Compare and Contrast different online Calendar applications.

7. a) Discuss about different online scheduling applications.

b) Explore Online Planning and Task Management.

8. a) Evaluate different Web Mail Services.

b) Evaluate different Web Conferencing Tools.

9. Explain about the features of different Social Networking Sites

10. Discuss about evaluation of Blogs for Collaboration