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Introduction to Big Data · Quiz 2 · 3 Dec 2023 · September 2023 term

Question 20: Would IRCTC's railway ticket booking application be suit…

Question 20

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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 ticket search, date choosing, ticket seat blocking and ticket purchase is together a high complexity operation

  2. B

    No, because each use of the application by a prospective passenger for ticket search, 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 duplicate payments

  4. D

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

  5. E

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

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Correct answers

  • A

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

  • B

    No, because each use of the application by a prospective passenger for ticket search, 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 duplicate payments

Question 20 of 26 in the IIT Madras BS Introduction to Big Data (Intro to Big Data) Quiz 2 paper sat on 3 Dec 2023, in the September 2023 term (IIT M DEGREE AN2 EXAM QDB2 03 Dec 2023). It carries 4 marks.

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