Introduction to Big Data · Quiz 2 · 6 Aug 2023 · May 2023 term

Question 9: Would IRCTC's railway ticket booking application be suita…

Question 9

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

Select all that apply.

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
D
No, because the number of ticket searches cannot be scaled by simply running the application in multiple machines
E
No, because multiple prospective passengers have to use on a 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 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

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Question 9 of 22 in the IIT Madras BS Introduction to Big Data (Intro to Big Data) Quiz 2 paper sat on 6 Aug 2023, in the May 2023 term (IIT M DEGREE AN3 EXAM QPE3 06 Aug 2023). It carries 3 marks.

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