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Introduction to
Internet of Things
Assignment-Week 9
TYPE OF QUESTION: MCQ/MSQ
Number of questions: 15 Total marks: 15 X 1= 15

QUESTION 1:

OpenStack is proprietary and a closed source software that you have to pay and buy.

a. True
b. False

Correct Answer: b. False

Detailed Solution: OpenStack is open source and requires no payment. (Please refer Lecture
41@2:09)

QUESTION 2:

In OpenStack which of the following component takes care of user authentication?

a. Nova
b. Horizon
c. Keystone
d. None of these

Correct Answer: c. Keystone

Detailed Solution: Keystone component in OpenStack provides authentication and user

authorization features (Please refer Lecture 41@4:07)

QUESTION 3:
You cannot ping your OpenStack instance from an outside network unless you connect your instance with
the public network through a ____________

a. Router
b. Firewall
c. Repeater
d. Load balancer
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Correct Answer: a. Router

Detailed Solution: You are supposed to connect your virtual OpenStack instance with the
public network through a router (Please refer Lecture 41@17:41)

QUESTION 4:

What is the primary service model for a sensor cloud?

a. Hardware-as-a-Service
b. Platform-as-a-Service
c. Data-as-a-Service
d. Sensor-as-a-Service

Correct Answer: d. Sensor-as-a-Service

Detailed Solution: The primary functionality of a sensor cloud is to provide Sensor-as-a-

Service. (Please refer Lecture 42@1:00)

QUESTION 5:

You can run two logical computers, one Linux machine and one Windows machine on top of the same
physical hardware through the use of ________________.

a. Sharing
b. Scaling
c. Virtualization
d. Inheritance.

Correct Answer: c. Virtualization

Detailed Solution: Virtualization supports multiple logical instances of different computers

on the same hardware. (Please refer Lecture 42@8:50)

QUESTION 6:

In Sensor Cloud, one physical sensor can be abstracted as multiple virtual sensors.
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a. True
b. False

Correct Answer: a. True

Detailed Solution: Virtualization allows the abstraction of one physical sensors into multiple
virtual sensors. (Please refer Lecture 42@12:10)

QUESTION 7:

In a Sensor cloud framework, the end-users have to continuously worry about owning and managing the
physical sensor devices.

a. True
b. False

Correct Answer: b. False

Detailed Solution: Sensor cloud supports the existence of multiple actors with end-users
concerned only with the application data and not internal details. (Please refer Lecture
42@13:09)

QUESTION 8:

Virtual sensors within a sensor cloud have communication interfaces with _______________.

a. Only the physical sensors below them

b. Only the end-user applications above them.
c. Both physical sensors below and applications above.
d. Neither the physical sensors, nor the applications above.

Correct Answer: c. Both physical sensors below and applications above

Detailed Solution: Virtual sensor layer sits in the middle having interface to both physical
sensors as well as applications. (Please refer Lecture 43@9:24 and 28:01)
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QUESTION 9:

Which of the following is true?

a. Traditional WSN: Virtualization support, Sensor Cloud: Virtualization support

b. Traditional WSN: No virtualization, Sensor Cloud: Virtualization Support
c. Traditional WSN: Virtualization support, Sensor Cloud: No Virtualization
d. Traditional WSN: No virtualization, Sensor Cloud: No Virtualization

Correct Answer: b. Traditional WSN: No virtualization, Sensor Cloud: Virtualization

Support

Detailed Solution: Sensor Cloud supports complete virtualization (Please refer Lecture
42@12:04)

QUESTION 10:

An organization ABC wishes to have environmental monitoring parameters of a particular region, but
does not have the resources to deploy its own physical sensors. However, another organization B has
some physical sensors that monitor the environment deployed in that region. Can sensor cloud help in
achieving A’s objectives?

a. Yes
b. No

Correct Answer: a. Yes

Detailed Solution: Sensor cloud can provide virtual sensor services to A (Please refer
Lecture 42@17:57)

QUESTION 11:

Referring back to Question 10 (above) and based on your answer, determine the roles that organization A
and B play in the given scenario.

a. A: Sensor owner, B: End-user (service consumer)

b. A: End-User (service consumer), B: Sensor owner
c. Both A and B are sensor owners
d. Both A and B are end-users

Correct Answer: b. A: End-User (service consumer), B: Sensor owner

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Detailed Solution: As B owns the physical sensors and has deployed them, B is the sensor-
owner and as A requires the sensor services, it is the end-user (Please refer Lecture
42@17:57)

QUESTION 12:

Which among the following is a limitation of cloud computing?

a. On-demand services
b. Virtualization orchestration
c. Large amount of computing and storage resources.
d. Additional communication latency for critical applications

Correct Answer: d. Additional communication latency for critical applications

Detailed Solution: Communication latency to and from cloud is one of the major drawback
for clouds, especially for critical applications (Please refer Lecture 44@1:01)

QUESTION 13:
In Fog computing, the Fog layer acts as an intermediary between the data source and the cloud for
immediate processing of time critical data.

a. True
b. False

Correct Answer: a. True

Detailed Solution: Fog actually sits in between the device and cloud to provide immediate
services (Please refer Lecture 44@7:29 and Lecture 45)

QUESTION 14:

Suppose the one-way communication latency from a device to a Fog layer is 20 ms and that from the
device to the cloud layer is 50ms. Data processing time at Fog is 10ms and that at Cloud is 5 ms, after
which (i.e completion of data processing) a reply is sent back to the device by the Fog or Cloud. What is
the difference between total communication latency (two-way round-trip communication plus processing
time at Fog/Cloud) between the device and the Cloud and Fog respectively?
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a. 50ms
b. 60ms
c. 55ms
d. 100ms

Correct Answer: c. 55ms

Detailed Solution: Total communication latency for cloud = 50 + 5 + 50 = 105ms. Total

communication latency for Fog = 20 + 10 + 10 = 50ms. Therefore difference = 105-50 = 55
ms (Please refer Lecture 45@5:06)

QUESTION 15:

Which among the following is true?

a. Fog computing acts as a complement to cloud computing.

b. Fog computing is a replacement for cloud computing.
c. Fog computing and cloud computing are the same.
d. Fog computing is more powerful than cloud computing (with respect to resources).

Correct Answer: a. Fog computing acts as a complement to cloud computing.

Detailed Solution: Fog computing and cloud computing are complementary technologies.
Fog helps in bringing the cloud closer to the IoT devices. (Please refer Lecture 45@1:06)

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