Define a sensor with reference to an IoT device. Explain various characteristics of sensors.

Explain the term VM(Virtual Machine) sizing. Also, discuss the two ways to do VM sizing, give suitable example for each. 

Compare Xenserver vs VMware with respect to the features like Guest O/S support, Backup facility, Thin provisioning, asset management and configuration mapping, dynamic resource allocation and failover, graphics support, licensing, host server management and storage specifications.

Define Load Balancing. Explain the following algorithms with reference to load balancing: 

a. Static algorithm approach

b. Weighted Round Robin

Explain the following communication protocols with reference to the IoT devices:

i. IPv6

ii. MQTT

iii. COAP

iv. XMPP

What is scalability in Cloud Computing? Explain the Proactive Scaling and Reactive Scaling strategies. Also, describe Auto scaling in cloud? Write and explain fixed amount auto scaling algorithm, with the help of a suitable example.

What is Internet of Things (IoT)? What are the characteristics of IoT? List and explain the various components used to implement IoT. Also explain industrial IoT, infrastructure IoT and internet of military things (IoMT) categories of IoT.

Define virtualization. Explain its underlying abstraction. Also mention the features provided by virtualization environment. Also, describe various Hypervisor based virtualization approaches like full virtualization, para virtualization and hardware assisted virtualization.

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.

:Draw the block diagram of 3-layer architecture of fog computing and explain all its layers. Also, with the help of a block diagram, explain the 4-levels in Cloud architecture.

Explain the differences between cloud computing, Fog computing and Edge computing. Draw a block diagram of Cloud-Fog-Edge collaboration and explain all itslayers.

Network Pools

 Storage Pools

Server Pools

Define resource sharing in cloud computing. What is Tenancy in context of cloud computing? Explain the implementation of single tenancy and multi-tenancy types of resource sharing in cloud computing.

Differentiate between cluster, grid and cloud computing with respect to its characteristics, physical structure, hardware, resources, applications, networking and scalability features.

Elaborate the local self-government.

 Explain the democratic political system.

Describe the segmentary societies.

Define the terms government and governance.