ANNAI MIRA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND

TECHNOLOGY
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Question Bank

YEAR & SEMESTER : III & VI

REGULATION : 2021
DEGREE & BRANCH : B.E & CSE
SUBJCET CODE : CCS365
SUBJECT NAME : SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORK
INCHARGE : A. GAYATHRI,AP/CSE

UNIT – I
SDN: INTRODUCTION
SYLLABUS:
Evolving Network Requirements – The SDN Approach – SDN architecture - SDN Data Plane,
Control plane and Application Plane.
PART – A (2 MARKS)
1. What is software defined network?
2. What is SDN device?
3. What is southbound interface?
4. Define data plane.
5. What is northbound interface?
6. List the functions of control plane?
7. What is network device?
8. What are the challenges of traditional network?
9. State fundamental characteristics of SDN?
10. Explain Plane separation, simplified device and centralized control?
11. Give a brief description of network automation, Virtualization and Openness?
12. What are API’s?
13. Explain East API’s and West API’s?
14. Write short notes on ONF, SDN devices.
15. What is control, Data and Management planes? Explain each.
16. What is mean by SDO’s?
17. What are the advantages of SDN?
18. What is mean by vendor lock-In?
19. What is mean by REST?
20. Difference between SDN & NFV?
21. How SDN is different from a normal network setup?
22. What is Network Controller in SDN?
23. What are the central tasks of the Control Plane with its Network Controller?
24. What are the central tasks of the Data Plane with the forwarding hardware?
25. What is the advantage of central intelligence over distributed intelligence in SDN?
26. How does control plane and data place communicate in SDN?
27. What is Open Flow?
28. What is RBAC?
29. What are the importance interfaces in the SDN?
30. Explain the concept of decoupling in SDN?
31. What is Open vSwitch?
32. What are the modes of SDN?
33. What are the different models of SDN?
34. Write any two SDN approach requirements

PART – B& C
1. Explain in detail about SDN Architecture with block diagram .(13m)
2. Analyze the evolving networking requirements for SDN.(13m)
3. What are the difference of SDN & traditional networking.(8m)
4. What is the relation between SDN and NFV.(7m)
5. What are SDN and NFV related standards explain? (8m)
6. Explain in detail about SDN Approach.(13m)
7. Explain in details about SDN Planes?(8m)
8. Discuss about the Traditional Data Center and Software Defined data Centre.(8m)
9. Explain about the characteristics of Software Defined Networking.(7m)

Grade Part A Part B

G3(50-59) 1-17 1-6
G2(60-79) 1-34 1-9
G1(>80) All the above Questions

UNIT – II
SDN DATA PLANE AND CONTROL PLANE
Data Plane functions and protocols – Open Flow Protocol - Flow Table - Control Plane
Functions - Southbound Interface, Northbound Interface – SDN Controllers - Ryu, Open
Daylight, ONOS - Distributed Controllers.
 PART – A
1. What is an open flow protocol? Why it Is used?
2. Explain various types of flow in detail.
3. Explain proactive and reactive flow.
4. Write open flow advantages and disadvantages.
5. Draw and explain open flow controller in detail.
6. What are the various open flow ports?
7. What is an open flow switch?Why it is used?
8. Compare open v switch features.
9. Explain pipeline processing.
10. What is SDN controller?
11. Define overlay networking.
12. What is logical ports?
13. What is synchronous communication?
14. Define Openflow.
15. Explain proactive rules.
16. What is VLAN?
17. What is VxLAN?
18. Expand the MPLS,TTL,QoS.
19. What are the top of the protocol running to TCP?
20. Define open flow light?
21. Define OVSDB?
22. What are the two interior router protocols?
23. What is the use of BGP?
24. Define REST.

PART – B& C

1. Explain about the architecture and function of SDN data plane.(13m)

2. Explain in detail about the open flow logical network device.(13m)
3. Discuss about the open flow protocol.(7m)
4. Explain about the architecture of control plane.(13m)
5. Explain the (i)open day light
(ii)Ryu
6. Explain about the concept of ONOS.(8m)
7. Explain in detail about the SDN Controller.(13m)
8. Explain the distributed controllers of SDN.(8m)
9. Discuss the concept of pipeline processing.(8m)
10. Explain the concept of routing .(7m)
 11. Explain the flow table structure.(6m)
12. Give the difference between the northbound and southbound interface.(6m)

Grade Part A Part B

G3(50-59) 1-15 1-6
G2(60-79) 1-24 1-12
G1(>80) All the above Questions

UNIT III
SDN APPLICATIONS
SDN Application Plane Architecture – Network Services Abstraction Layer – Traffic
Engineering – Measurement and Monitoring – Security – Data Center Networking.
PART – A
1. Define mininet.
2. What is data centre orchestration?
3. Expand the NOX and POX.
4. List the function of data center orchestration?
5. Define traffic engineering.
6. What is mean by data center networking?
7. What is mean by network services abstraction layer?
8. What is the use of MAC address?
9. Expand the AMS,ODC & DDOS?
10. Give the two examples of Data center SDN application.
11. What are the two aggregation switches in data center network.
12. Write short notes on :Beacon,Maestro.
13. Define SLA.
14. What are the parameters of service level aggrements?
15. Define Attack mitigation systems?
16. Define Protected Networks.
17. What are the two CCN packets?
18. What is frenetic?
PART – B& C
1. Explain in detail about architecture of SDN Application plane.(13m)
2. Explain network services abstraction layer in detail.(8m)
3. Explain about the traffic engineering.(10m)
4. Explain the need of security in SDN Applications in details.(13m)
5. Discuss the concept of data center networking.(13m)
 6. Explain the information – centric networking.(7m)
7. Give the example of network service abstraction layer of frenetic programming language.
(13m)
8. Describe the CCN Communications.(6m)

Grade Part A Part B

G3(50-59) 1-13 1-5
G2(60-79) 1-18 1-8
G1(>80) All the above Questions

UNIT IV
MAP REDUCE APPLICATIONS
NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION
Network Virtualization - Virtual LANs – OpenFlow VLAN Support - NFV Concepts – Benefits
and Requirements – Reference Architecture.
PART – A
1. What is Network functions Virtualization?
2. What are the key components of Virtualization in SDN.
3. What is VLAN?
4. What is VxLAN?
5. Define communication VLAN Membership.
6. What is the use of VID?
7. Define Virtual private networks.
8. Define Label-switching routers?
9. Define forwarding equivalence class(FEC)
10.

PART – B & C
1. Discuss data flow in Map Reduce programming model.(7)
2. Explain about the Input – output format of Map Reduce.(6)
3. Explain the Map Reduce data processing workflow.(8) (OR)
Give an example for Map Reduce Calculations. (8) (NOV/DEC2015)
4. Discuss about the function of task tracker.
 5. Using Map Reduce concept, implement a Java program for matrix multiplication.
6. Explain about the Unit tests with MRunit.
7. Using Map Reduce concept, Implement a Java program for count number of character.
8. How to run hadoop in map reduce job run? (OR)
With necessary diagram explain the Anatomy of Map Reduce job run (15)
(NOV/DEC2014)
9. Define job scheduling. Explain its types? (NOV/DEC 2015)
10. Explain in briefly about the architecture of YARN & give its merits and demerits.(15)
(NOV/DEC 2015)
11. Write short notes on failure in map reduce and YARN.(8)
12. Discuss the shuffle and sort process. (NOV/DEC 2015)

Grade Part A Part B

G3(50-59) 1-16 1-5
G2(60-79) 1-23 1-8
G1(>80) All the above Questions

UNIT V
HADOOP RELATED TOOLS

Hbase – data model and implementations – Hbase clients – Hbase examples – praxis.Pig – Grunt
– pig data model – Pig Latin – developing and testing Pig Latin scripts. Hive – data types and file
formats – Hive QL data definition – Hive QL data manipulation – Hive QL queries.
PART – A
1. What is Zookeeper?
2. What is pig storage?
3. What are the different ways of executing pig program?(NOV/DEC2015)
4. List down the tools related with Hadoop. (NOV/DEC 2014)
5. What are the features of Hive?
6. Contrast TINY –INT and SMALL – INT in Hive data types? (NOV/DEC 2015).
7. Explain data model in H base?
8. What is Hbase?
9. Define pig latin language.
10. What are the responsibility of HMaster?
11. Where to use HBase?
12. What is Hive data definition?
13. Explain services provided by Zookeeper in HBase.
14. What is the difference between pig latin and pig engine?
15. What are the features of Hive?
 16. List out the four types of pig latin data model?
17. Give the pig latinDatatypes.
18. What is mean by Parser in pig?
19. Define DAG.
20. What are the two execution mode of pig.
21. List out the HBase clients?
22. What are the logical components which are used in Hbase data?
23. Difference between Hbase and Relational database.
24. Define DDL, DML. (DEC 2016,MAY 2018)

PART – B & C
1. What is Hbase ? Draw architecture of Hbase. Explain difference between HDFS and
Hbase.(13)
2. Explain Hbase Data Model. (8) (NOV/DEC2014)
3. Write short note on Hbase client.(6) (NOV/DEC2014)
4. What is pig? Explain features of pig. Draw architecture of pig.(13)( NOV/DEC2014)
5. Explain in briefly about the Hive architecture and working of hive.(15)
6. Discuss about the Hive QL Data definition & Data Manupulation.(8) (NOV/DEC2014)
7. Write down the queries involved in Hive Data Definition.(6) (NOV/DEC2014)
8. Implement the following HIVE commands 1. CREATE 2. SHOW 3. DESCRIBE 4. USE
5. DROP 6. ALTER.
9. Write down the command for load, select, insert, delete, update, export, import command
in hive DML command.
10. Implement a HQL command to create a table student with your own attribute and execute
the following command 1. SELECT all fields 2. GROUP BY department 3. WHERE
some condition 4. ORDER BY student number.
11. What are the different ways to insert data into a table using Hive . Give a sample query
for each kind? (NOV/DEC2014)
12. Implement a HQL command (I) To create a table as bankaccount with field name as cid,
cname, cage, acc type (II) Load data into table (III) Display the table content.
13. Write short notes on data types and file formats.(7)
14. Explain a)pig data model. (6) (NOV/DEC 2015)
b)developing and testing pig Latin scripts.(7)

Grade Part A Part B

G3(50-59) 1-16 1-5
G2(60-79) 1-23 1-8
G1(>80) All the above Questions

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