Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles, 9
th
Edition, GE
Testbank Chapter 16
Chapter 16
Cloud and IoT Operating Systems
TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS:
T F 1) There is an increasingly prominent trend in many organizations to move a substantial
portion or even all IT operations to an Internet-connected infrastructure known as
enterprise cloud computing.
T F 2) Cloud computing gives you the ability to expand and reduce resources according to
your speci#c service requirement.
T F 3) With PaaS the customer has access to the resources of the underlying cloud infrastructure.
T F 4) The major advantage of the public cloud is security.
T F 5) With a hybrid cloud solution, sensitive information can be placed in a private area of the
cloud, and less sensitive data can take advantage of the bene#ts of the public cloud.
T F 6) The NIST cloud computing reference architecture focuses on the requirements of “how to”
design cloud solutions and implementations.
T F 7) The cloud OS is the software that implements IaaS.
T F 8) The virtual storage component of the cloud OS provides data storage services for the cloud
infrastructure.
T F 9) With #le-based storage systems, data are stored on hard disk as #xed-size blocks.
T F 10) Nova is the management software that controls virtual machines within the IaaS cloud
computing platform.
T F 11) The main elements of a RFID system are tags and readers.
T F 12) The hardware abstraction layer (HAL) is the same for each hardware platform.
T F 13) One notable feature of RIOT is that it uses a tickless scheduler.
T F 14) Network connectivity is essential for data collection, development of distributed IoT
applications, and remote system maintenance.
T F 15) The term constrained device is used to refer to the vast majority of IoT devices.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS:
1) _________ is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared
pool of con#gurable computing resources.
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