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Introduction to Big Data · Quiz 2 · 2 Apr 2023 · January 2023 term · Set QPE2

Question 16: Would IRCTC's railway ticket booking application be suit…

Question 16

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Would IRCTC's railway ticket booking application be suitable for a serverless implementation?

Select all that apply.

  1. A

    No, because each use of the application by a prospective passenger for ticketsearch, date choosing, ticket seat blocking and ticket purchase is together a high complexityoperation

  2. B

    No, because each use of the application by a prospective passenger for ticketsearch, date choosing, ticket seat blocking and ticket purchase will take a long time

  3. C

    No, because a failed step in the use of the application can result in duplicatepayments

  4. D

    No, because the number of ticket searches cannot be scaled by simply runningthe application in multiple machines

  5. E

    No, because multiple prospective passengers have to use the application onthe single machine (i.e. no embarrassingly parallel computation)

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  • A

    No, because each use of the application by a prospective passenger for ticketsearch, date choosing, ticket seat blocking and ticket purchase is together a high complexityoperation

  • B

    No, because each use of the application by a prospective passenger for ticketsearch, date choosing, ticket seat blocking and ticket purchase will take a long time

  • C

    No, because a failed step in the use of the application can result in duplicatepayments

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Question 16 of 20 in the IIT Madras BS Introduction to Big Data (Intro to Big Data) Quiz 2 paper sat on 2 Apr 2023, in the January 2023 term (IIT M DEGREE AN3 EXAM QPE3 02 Apr 2023). It carries 3 marks.

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