MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

CLOUD COMPUTING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Cloud computing has its root back in ____
A
1970s
B
1960s
C
1950s
D
2000s
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Cloud computing has its roots as far back in 1950s when mainframe computers came into existence. At that time, several users accessed the central computer via dummy terminals. The only task these dummy terminals could perform was to enable users access the mainframe computer.

Detailed explanation-2: -The term cloud came into widespread use in 2006 when Amazon launched AWS with the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service.

Detailed explanation-3: -The history of cloud computing began in 1963. An offer of $2 million from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was the cue. The money aimed to fund the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for Project MAC. The project targeted the archaic computers to establish simultaneous access of users.

Detailed explanation-4: -The virtual machine (VM) operating system took the 1950s’ shared access mainframe to the next level, permitting multiple distinct computing environments to reside on one physical environment. Virtualization came to drive the technology, and was an important catalyst in the communication and information evolution.

Detailed explanation-5: -There are mainly four roots of cloud computing internet technologies, distributed computing, hardware, and system management. These roots help computers to extend their capacities and make them more powerful.

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