CS1353 Distributed Systems Question Bank : kings.ac.in

Name of the College : Kings College Of Engineering
Department : Computer Science & Engineering
Subject : Distributed Systems
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Document Type : Question Bank

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Kings Distributed Systems Question Paper

UNIT – I

BASIC CONCEPTS :
PART – A : (2 MARKS)
1. Define distributed systems?
2. Give examples of distributed systems .
3. Write the following (i)HTTP (ii) HTML (iii) URL

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4. What are the uses of web services?
5. Define heterogeneity.
6. What are the characteristics of heterogeneity ?
7. What is the purpose of heterogeneity mobile code?
8. Why we need openness?
9. How we provide security?
10. Define scalability.
11. What are the types of transparencies?
12. Define transparencies.
13. Define System model.
14. What is the architectural model?
15. What is the fundamental model?

16. What are the difficult for treat and distributed system?
17. Define Middleware.
18. What are the different types of model?
19. Which type of network can be used by distributed system?
20. What are the different types of network?
21. Define latency.
22. What is the difference between networking and internetworking?
23. What is meant by networking?
24. What is meant by internetworking?
25. What are the different types of switching are used in computer networking?
26. Define protocol.
27. What is the function of router?
28. What is meant by internet protocol?
29. Define domain name.
30. Define mobile IP.

PART-B :
1. a. Explain the Differences between intranet and internet. (8)
b. Write in detail about www (8)
2. Explain the various challenges of distributed systems (16)
3. Write in detail about the characteristics of inter process communication (16)
4. a. Explain in detail about marshalling (8)
b. Explain about the networking principles. (8)
5. Describe in detail about client – server communication. (l6)
6. Write in detail about group communication. (l6)
7. Explain in detail about the various system models (16)
8. a. Describe details about architectural model? (8)
b. Describe details about functional model? (8)
9. a. Explain the various types of networks? (8)
b. What are the networking issues for distributed System? (8)
10.Explain about the internet protocols. (16)

UNIT II

PROCESSES AND DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS :
PART – A : (2 MARKS)
1 . What is meant by interprocess Communication?
2 . What is the difference between RMI and RPC?
3 . Define Datagram.
4 . What is the use of UDP?
5 . What are the methods provides by datagram socket?
6 . What are the characteristic of network hidden by stream abstraction?
7 . What is the use of remote object references?
8. List out the choices in RMI invocation semantics.
9. Write note on Dispatcher.
10. Define the binder.
11. What is a server thread?
12. List the activities of an activator.
13. What is mean by object location?
14. What is remote procedure call?
15. Give the difference between RMI and RPC.
16. What do you mean by Authentication?
17. Define notification.
18. Define the term metadata.
19. What is file replication?
20. Write note on flat file service.
21. Define path name.
22. What are the properties of URL?
23. Define name service.

PART-B :
1. a. Explain the Communication between distributed objects (8)
b. Explain in detail about Events and Notifications (8)
2. Explain in detail about Remote Procedure call with a case study. (16)
3. Describe java RMI. (16)
4. Explain about the group communication (16)
5. Describe about the client server communication (16)
6. a. Explain characteristics of interprocess communication. (8)
b. Explain UDP datagram communication (8)
7. Explain the various type communications. (16)

UNIT III

OPERATING SYSTEM ISSUES I :
PART – A :(2 MARKS)
1. Mention the function of distributed operating system.
2. What is concurrent processing?
3. Write note on protection.
4. Define the shared memory multi-process.
5. What is the function of a process manager?
6. Define threads.
7. Distinguish between threads and multiple process.
8. When an object is considered to be a garbage?
9. How is distributed dead lock detected?
10. What is distributed termination detector?
11. Define marker receiving rule.
12. Define marker sending rule.
13. What is distributed debugging?
14. Why computer clock synchronization necessary?
15. What is global state predicate?
16. Write short note on name spaces.
17. List the domain names.
18. Define the term multi-cast.
19. What do you mean by group communication?

PART-B :
1. Explain in detail the operating system layers. (16)
2 . Write note on : i)Protection ii)Address space (16)
3. Explain the creation of new process in distributed systems. (16)
4. Write a detail note on threads. (16)
5. Explain the operating system architecture. (16)
6 .Write note on : i) clocks ii) clock skew iii)Co-ordinate universal time (16)
7. Discuss about dead locks in detail. (16)
8. Explain about distributed mutual exclusion. (16)
9. Write note on : i) Distributed garbage collection
ii) Distributed deadlock detection
iii) Distributed termination detection (16)
10. Briefly explain the election algorithms. (16)