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Flashcards - 02 Reliability in Computer Systems

Reliability is an important attribute for computer systems. [1] Programmers prefer conservative systems because the advantages and weaknesses are known, and new techniques are implemented only after analyzing long-term effects. [2] Critical systems are classified based on their importance, such as safety, mission, business, and security. [3] Organizations take precautions like backups, disaster recovery plans, and redundancy measures to improve reliability and avoid disasters.

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Flashcards - 02 Reliability in Computer Systems

Reliability is an important attribute for computer systems. [1] Programmers prefer conservative systems because the advantages and weaknesses are known, and new techniques are implemented only after analyzing long-term effects. [2] Critical systems are classified based on their importance, such as safety, mission, business, and security. [3] Organizations take precautions like backups, disaster recovery plans, and redundancy measures to improve reliability and avoid disasters.

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Reliability in
computer systems

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Flashcards
Reliability of any computer-
related component is an
attribute that denotes its
What is reliability? consistent performance
according to the
specifications.

Why do Because the advantages


and weaknesses of a
programmers conservative system are well
prefer a known. A new technique is
only implemented after
conservative analysing its long-term
system? effects.

How are critical Safety critical systems,


mission critical systems,
systems business critical systems
classified? and security critical systems.

A backup is a copy of all


What is a backup? data and files used in case
of failure.

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List some Done at a well-defined
schedule. Stored in a
features of a secure and fire-proof
backup location. Can also be
stored using cloud
procedure. technology.

Disaster recovery is the


What is disaster process of getting back lost
recovery? data from the back up after
a system failure.

List some of the Use of uninterruptible


precautionary power supply (UPS), surge
protectors (to minimise the
measures taken by power surges in electronic
organisations to equipment), fire prevention
and anti-virus software.
avoid disasters.

Redundancy is the
What is duplication of critical parts
redundancy? of a computer system to
improve the reliability.

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What are the Hardware redundancy,
types of software redundancy and
data redundancy.
redundancy?

Two power supplies are


State an example arranged in a parallel setup
of hardware so that if one of them fails,
another one can be easily
redundancy. switched ON.

Redundant array of
independent disks (RAID) is
a data storage technology in
What is RAID? which multiple physical disk
drives are used to store
redundant data.

Fault tolerance is the


property that enables a
What is fault- system to operate properly
tolerance? even if the system
undergoes one or more
failures.

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A system that operates at a
What is a fail-soft reduced level after some
system? component failures is called
a fail-soft system.

Defensive programming is a
programming technique
What is defensive that adds checkpoints which
programming? warn the user in case the
program is not working in
the desired manner.

What might happen


to a system in the In the absence of defensive
programming, the program
absence of could crash without any
defensive warning.
programming?

What parameters
Percentage of time, number
are used to of hours, downtime, mean
measure time between failures and
mean time to failure.
reliability?

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