4/17/24, 8:44 PM Quiz_Distributed_Computing

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Multiple Choice Questions- 15

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5. Which one is NOT a part of the sets of services underlying the Google Search *
Engine

Crawling

Testing

Ranking

Indexing

18. A replica is more __________ compared to a cached copy *

Non-Persistent and Insecure

Insecure and Accurate

Inaccurate and Insecure

Accurate, Persistent and Secure

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4. The primary name of each host in DNS stored in CNAME record is called *

Canonical Names

Client Names

Resource Names

Domain Names

14. What are the characteristics of a distributed file system? *

Service activity is not carried out across the network

They have single centralized data repository

Its users, servers and storage devices are dispersed

There are multiple dependent storage devices

13. The availability and performance requirements for name servers in the global *
layer can be met by

Client Caches

Client Replicas

Client Distribution

Replicating Servers

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17. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of stateful servers *

Better Performance

Fault Tolerance

Easy Read Ahead

Shorter Request Messages

7. For which file transfer model, cache management is harder due to the variable- *
length data for different access requests.

File-level transfer model

Block-level transfer model

Byte-level transfer model

Record-level transfer model

6. In distributed system, each processor has its own ___________ *

Local Memory

Clock

Both local memory and clock

None of the above

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10. In which file model, a new version of the file is created each time a change is *
made to the file contents and the old version is retained unchanged

Unstructured files

Structured files

Immutable files

Mutable files

11. Remote service model for file accessing has *

Reduced contention for the network

Reduced network traffic

Client’s request is performed at the server’s node

No contention for the file servers

1. In distributed file system, file name does not reveal the file’s *

Physical storage location

Both local name and physical storage location

File size

Local name

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16. Directory User Agents in X.500 implementation represent ________ *

Root

Route

Clients

Servers

9. The capability of a system to adapt the increased service load is called *

Capacity

Tolerance

Scalability

Openness

2. Which amongst the following is not an advantage of Distributed systems? *

Reliability

Incremental growth

Resource sharing

Openness

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12. ________ provides a higher-level language for the execution of the distributed *
computation in the Google Infrastructure

publish-subscribe

protocol buffers

Sawzall

Chubby

3. ________ supports Distributed computation services providing means for *

BigTable

Chubby

publish-subscribe

MapReduce

15. What is a stateless file server? *

It maintains only client access information in them

It maintains only client information in them

It maintains internally no state information at all

It keeps tracks of states of different objects

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19. The lookup operation in NFS is to look up *

Data contained in the file

A subdirectory

Attribute values of a file

A file handle for a given path name

8. Web-based office suite supporting shared editing of documents held on Google *

Gmail

Google Talk

Google News

Google Docs

20. The availability and performance requirements for name servers in the global *
layer can be met by

Replicating Servers

Client Distribution

Client Replicas

Client Caches

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