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Important Question Bank for RTU Exam 2024

Subject: Distributed System


Session:2023-24
Semester: 6th

Q 1. What are the Goals of Distributed Systems?


Q 2. State the difference between Distributed Operating System and Network Operating
System.
Q 3. Explain working of RPC.
Q 4. How a Distributed File System is different from a centralized file system.
Q 5. The Concept of Logical Clocks.
Q 6. How concurrency handles in a distributed system.
Q 7. What is a non uniform memory access model (NUMA) ?
Q 8. Explain Distributed Mutual Exclusion.
Q 9. Explain concept of Fault in distributed agreement.
Q 10. How data is handled in distributed databases.
Q 11. What are the main characteristics of a distributed system?
Q 12. What are the different models of Distributed Systems?
Q 13. Define Distributed File System with its requirement.
Q 14. What is the need of multicast communication in distributed systems?
Q 15. Define Replication. What are the need of replication?
Q 16. Explain goals and services of distributed systems.
Q 17. Explain various theoretical issues in distributed systems.
Q 18. Explain various types of operating systems associated with the distributed systems.
Q 19. Explain design issues in distributed operating systems.
Q 20. Explain architecture model of distributed system.
Q 21. Explain challenges of distributed systems.
Q 22. Discuss about Distributed Computing Environments.
Q 23. Define the term Distributed System and explain with two examples.
Q 24. Explain how micro kernels can be used to organize an operating system in a client-server
fashion.
Q 25. Explain transport level communication services for building distributed applications.
Q 26. Discuss about object Adapter in distributed systems.
Q 27. Does using time stamping for concurrency control ensure serializability. Discuss in detail.
Q 28. Discuss connection less communication between client and server using sockets.
Q 29. How is the state of a distributed system reordered? Explain with a diagram.
Q 30. Explain Distributed Shared Memory with a diagram.
Q 31. “Transparency is one of the most important feature of distributed system”, justify the
statement with an example.
Q 32. “Access Transparency is not maintained by conventional Remote procedure call (RPC)”,
give the reason.
Q 33. How does the Distributed file system (DFS) encourage sharing a storage device,
explained with help of DFS architecture.
Q 34. How Many ways can mutual exclusion be achieved in a distributed system?
Q 35. Explain the following election algorithm with Example-
a. Bully
b. Ring

Q 36. Explain Transaction Recovery techniques with examples in distributed systems.


Q 37. Why do we need a distributed system ?
Q 38. What are the challenges in achieving the requirement of a distributed system?
Q 39. Define Distributed objects.
Q 40. What are the needs of event notification during the communication among distributed
systems?
Q 41. Explain event notification architecture in detail.
Q 42. Define Fault Tolerance.
Q 43. Explain how Fault tolerance is ensured in distributed systems.
Q 44. What are the different fault tolerance techniques?
Q 45. Explain Following term in distributed System -
a. Deadlock Avoidance.
b. Deadlock Prevention.
c. Deadlock detection and Recovery.
Q 46. Explain the CORBA system in a distributed system.
Q 47. Explain lamport’s clock and vector clock with examples.
Q 48. Write Short notes on following-
a. Dynamic Load Sharing and Balancing in a distributed system.
b. Message Passing
Q 49. Explain the concept of RPC and RMI in Distributed systems.
Q 50. Explain Dynamic Load Sharing and balancing and its requirement in distributed process
scheduling with justification.
Q 51. What is transaction service and concurrency control? Explain.
Q 52. Explain Data and File Replication in Distributed File Systems.
Q 53. Explain the following in distributed computation .
a. Failures in a distributed System
b. Distributed deadlock handling.
Q 54. Explain the concepts of Replicated data management and various issues associated with
replicated data management in detail.
Q 55. Describe Concept of Fault, Failure and Recovery in distributed systems.
Q 56. Explain the following in detail.
a. CORBA RMI and services
b. Byzantine faults and Agreement.
c. Impossibility of consensus and randomized distributed agreement.
d. Distributed termination detection techniques.
Q 57. Explain the concepts of processes and threads.
Q 58. State and explain the characteristics of concurrent programming languages.
Q 60. Explain design and implementation issues is Remote Method Invocation (RMI).
Q 61. Describe the concepts of Deadlocks in distributed systems.
Q 62. State and explain various issues of replicated data management.
Q 63 Explain Atomic Multicast in a Distributed System.
Q 64. Define Byzantine agreement problem with its solution. What do you mean by agreement
protocol?
Q 65. Write Short Notes on -
a. General parallel file system and windows file system
b. Andrew and coda file system
c. Sun network file system.
Q 66. Where do you need RPC? Explain with examples.
Q 67. Classify the type of transparency that a distributed file system should support?
Q 68. Describe mechanism for deadlock detection in distributed systems?
Q 69. Discriminate passive replication and active replication.
Q 70. What is Distributed process implementation and also explain static process scheduling
with communication.

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