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Distributed Systems Question Bank

The document is a comprehensive question bank covering various topics related to distributed systems, including tightly and loosely coupled systems, message passing, process migration, synchronization, and distributed file systems. It addresses key concepts, models, protocols, and challenges in designing and implementing distributed computing systems. Each question prompts exploration of essential features, mechanisms, and algorithms relevant to distributed systems.

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Distributed Systems Question Bank

The document is a comprehensive question bank covering various topics related to distributed systems, including tightly and loosely coupled systems, message passing, process migration, synchronization, and distributed file systems. It addresses key concepts, models, protocols, and challenges in designing and implementing distributed computing systems. Each question prompts exploration of essential features, mechanisms, and algorithms relevant to distributed systems.

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Distributed Systems Question Bank

Q.1 Explain Tightly coupled systems.


Q.2 Explain Loosely coupled systems.
Q.3 Write about workstation server model.
Q.4 Write about processor pull model.
Q.5 Write about minicomputer model.
Q.6 Why are the distributed computing system gaining popularity.
Q.7 Write various issues in designing a distributed operating system.
Q.8 Discuss various kinds of transparencies.
Q.9 Desirable features of good message passing systems.
Q.10 What is process? What is message?
Q.11 Write about message in distributed computing Systems with proper block
diagram.
Q.12 Write about message oriented IPC protocol.
Q.13 Discuss synchronization.
Q.14 Write about Two methods for non blocking receive.
Q.15 What is polling? What is testing?
Q.16 What is conditional receive primitive?
Q.17 Write about buffers.
Q.18 What is encoding and decoding of message data.
Q.19 Two representations used for the encoding and decoding.
Q.20 Write about process addressing.
Q.21 What is explicit addressing? What is implicit addressing?
Q.22 Write various techniques for failure handling.
Q.23 Write four message IPC protocol.
Q.24 What is idempotency? Describe with proper example.
Q.25 How to keep track of lost and out-of-sequence packets in multi datagram
messages?
Q.26 Write about selective repeat protocol.
Q.27 How Clock Synchronization can be achieved?
Q.28 Write about process migration.
Q.29 What is pre-emptive process migration?
Q.30 What is non pre-empltive process migration?
Q.31 What are the process migration mechanisms.
Q.32 What is address space transfer mechanisms.
Q.33 Write about various process states.
Q.34 What is total freezing?
Q.35 What is pre transferring?
Q.36 What is transfer on reference?
Q.37 Write about threads.
Q.38 Write various threads states.
Q.39 Write about Issues in synchronization.
Q.40 Write various types of clock synchronization.
Q.41 Write clock synchronization algorithms.
Q.42 Write about Centralized clock synchronizations.
Q.43 Write about Distributed Clock synchronizations.
Q.44 Write about passive time server algorithm.
Q.45 Write about active time server algorithm.
Q.46 Write disadvantages of centralized algorithm.
Q.47 Describe global averaging algorithm.
Q.48 Describe localized averaging algorithm.
Q.49 What is event ordering?
Q.50 How logical clocks are implemented?
Q.51 Write about Election algorithm.
Q.52 Write about bully algorithm.
Q.53 Write about ring algorithm.
Q.54 How to achieve distributed consensus.
Q.55 What are the applications of distributed consensus.
Q.56 Write about DFS components.
Q.57 Describe features of good DFS.
Q.58 Write various applications of DFS.
Q.59 Narrate working of DFS.
Q.60 What is namespace?
Q.61 Write advantages of DFS.
Q.62 Write Disadvantages of DFS.
Q.63 Write various file models in DFS.
Q.64 What is mutable files? What is immutable files?
Q.65 Write various file accessing models in distributed systems.
Q.66 Write about method utilizes for accessing remotes files.
Q.67 Write various consistency semantics for file sharing.
Q.68 Advantages of file caching in distributed file systems.
Q.69 What is cache consistency, cache update policy
Q.70 Write about cache validation.
Q.71 Why file replication required in DFS?
Q.72 Write types of replication.
Q.73 What is active and passive replication?
Q.74 Advantages and disadvantages of active and passive file replication.
Q.75 Write about fault tolerance in DFS.
Q.76 What is need for fault tolerance in DFS?
Q.77 How Fault is detected in DFS?
Q.78 How fault is diagnosed in DFS?
Q.79 Write various types of fault tolerance in DFS.
Q.80 Write about atomic commit protocol in DFS.
Q.81 Write essential properties of Distributed transactions.
Q.82 Write about atomic commit.
Q.83 Write about distributed two phase commit protocol.
Q.84 Write various design principles of DFS.

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