1. Exam 1 Study Guide
Cs 595
Lecture 17

2. Exam 1 content Cloud computing issues PaaS cloud architectures
Scalability, elasticity, availability, manageability, performance, security
PaaS cloud architectures
Requirements, communication, load balancing, service interactions, monitoring
Google File System
Goals, design considerations, architecture, interface, metadata, replication
Map Reduce/Hadoop
Goals, architecture, scalability, fault tolerance, communication protocols, APIs and interfaces
SaaS
Characteristics, benefits, concerns, maturity levels
Green cloud computing
Datacenter power consumption, alternative energy, green hardware design, green software design
PUE characteristics
Energy proportional computing

3. Exam 1 content Questions covered on homework assignments 3 – 5.
Supplemental reading:
Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing
Survey of Open Source Cloud Computing Solutions
Practical Guide to PaaS
Google File System (GFS)
GFS: Evolution on Fast-Forward
MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
Challenges for Adopting Cloud-Based SaaS in the Public Sector
Bill Gates 1995: The Internet Tidal Wave
Bill Gates 2005: Internet Software Services
Energy Logic: Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption
Enabling Datacenter Servers to Scale Out Economically and Sustainably
The Case for Energy-Proportional Computing

4. Exam 1 Exam: six questions, two to omit, graded out of four.
Each question equally weighted (25% each)
Detailed answers must be legible (marked incorrect if I can’t read your answer)
Answer quality/detail will determine your score for each question
Possible multiple section questions; a, b, c, ..
One hour to complete the exam in class (12:40pm – 1:40pm)