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1. A distributed system is defined as a collection of autonomous computers linked by a network with software
designed to produce an integrated computing facility.

A. true

B. false

Answer» A. true
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2. A “glue” between client and server parts of application

A. middleware

B. firmware

C. package

D. system software

Answer» A. middleware
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3. The hardware of DS has two types

A. multiprocessor system,multicomputer system

B. multiprocessor system,unicomputer system

C. uniprocessor system,multicomputer system

D. uniprocessor system,unicomputer system

Answer» A. multiprocessor system,multicomputer system

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4. Process Fail - Stop in process omission faults

A. can be detected in synchronous system.

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B. can be detected in asynchronous system.

C. can be detected in synchronous and asynchronous system.

D. can be detected in standalone system.

Answer» A. can be detected in synchronous system.

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5. Distributed pervasive system is also known as

A. ubiquitous computing

B. user interface design

C. graphical user interface

D. peer to peer system

Answer» A. ubiquitous computing

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6. Type of cluster computing is

A. load sharing cluster

B. load holding cluster

Answer» D. load balancing cluster

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6. Type of cluster computing is

C. load replication cluster

D. load balancing cluster

Answer» D. load balancing cluster

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7. Type of grid computing is

A. collaborative grid

B. system grid

C. process grid

D. channel grid

Answer» A. collaborative grid

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8. Scaling transparency hides

A. system expansion

B. system collaboration

C. system failure

D. system security

Answer» A. system expansion

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9. Internet provides for remote login.

A. telnet

B. http

C. ftp

D. rpc

Answer» A. telnet
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10. The header usually consists of the following elements in IPC I. Sequence number II. Structural information III.
Address IV. File mode(Read/ Write)

A. i,iii, iv

B. i,ii, iii

C. i, ii, iv

D. i,iv

Answer» B. i,ii, iii

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11. In RMI, the objects are passed by .

A. value

B. reference

C. value and reference

D. object

Answer» A. value
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12. What are the exceptions which have to be handled in a RMI client program?

A. malformedurlexception

B. notfoundexception

C. arithmeticexception

D. class•not•found•excepti on

Answer» A. malformedurlexception
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13. Transient communication done by layer

A. network

Answer» B. transport

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13. Transient communication done by layer

B. transport

C. physical

D. session

Answer» B. transport
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14. The local operating system on the server machine passes the incoming packets to the

A. server stub

B. client stub

C. client operating system

D. binding agent

Answer» A. server stub

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15. Machine that places the request to access the data is generally called as .

A. server machine

B. client machine

C. request machine

D. database server

Answer» B. client machine

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16. provides programmers a familiar programming model by extending the local procedure call
to a distributed environment

A. distributed environment

B. permanent procedure call

Answer» D. remote procedure call

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16. provides programmers a familiar programming model by extending the local procedure call
to a distributed environment

C. process and file

D. remote procedure call

Answer» D. remote procedure call

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17. An architecture where clients first communicate the server for data then format and display it to the users, is
known as

A. client/server architecture

B. three-tier architecture

C. two-tier architecture

D. peer-to-peer architecture

Answer» A. client/server architecture

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18. is an object acting as a gateway for the client side.

A. skeleton

B. stub

C. remote

D. server

Answer» B. stub
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19. Message passing provides a mechanism to allow processes to communicate and to synchronize their actions

A. by sharing the same address space

B. without sharing the same address space

C. by sharing the same process number and process identifier

D. by sharing port number

Answer» A. by sharing the same address space

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20. Which of the following allocates/deallocates buffers

A. rrl

B. stub/skeleton layer

C. transport layer

D. networking layer

Answer» A. rrl
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21. OSI stands for

A. open system interconnection

B. operating system interface

C. optical serviceimplementation

D. open service internet

Answer» A. open system interconnection

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22. Which address is used to identify a process on a host by the transport layer?

A. physical address

B. logical address

C. port address

D. specific address

Answer» C. port address

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23. In all reliable multicast group communication

A. n\ response expected from the receiver

B. response from any of the receiver required

Answer» D. response needed from all the receivers

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23. In all reliable multicast group communication

C. response from \m\(1<m<n) of the \n\ receiver required

D. response needed from all the receivers

Answer» D. response needed from all the receivers

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24. If processes p and q both receive messages m and m', then p receives m before m' if and only if q receives m
before m'.The order delivery is called

A. absolute ordering

B. consistent ordering

C. causal ordering

D. fifo ordering

Answer» B. consistent ordering

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25. What is close group in group communication?

A. only members can send messages to the group as a whole

B. processes that are not members (clients) can send message to the group.

C. the idea of groups is to support replicated servers

D. processes that are not members (clients) but close to the group can send message to the group.

Answer» A. only members can send messages to the group as a whole

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26. all related objects moved and left to a server upon the first RPC

A. call by value

B. call by move

C. call by visit

Answer» B. call by move

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26. all related objects moved and left to a server upon the first RPC

D. call by reference

Answer» B. call by move

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27. What is the feature of stateful server?

A. longer server recovery time

B. quick recovery after reboot

C. file operations must be idempotent

D. simple server design

Answer» A. longer server recovery time

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28. is a process that prevents multiple threads or processes from accessing shared resources at the same time.

A. critical section

B. deadlock

C. message passing

D. mutual exclusion

Answer» D. mutual exclusion

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29. Absolute time synchronization can be achieved using

A. vector time stamping method

B. christian’s method

C. lamport’s method

D. ricart-agrawala algorithm

Answer» B. christian’s method

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30. Which mutual exclusion algorithm is useful when the membership of the group is unknown?

A. centralized

B. lamport’s.

C. token ring

D. decentralized algorithm

Answer» A. centralized
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31. Which event is concurrent with the vector clock (2, 8, 4)?

A. (3,9,5)

B. (3,8,4)

C. (1,7,3)

D. (4,8,2)

Answer» D. (4,8,2)
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32. A client gets a timestamp of 4:12:30.500 from a

time server. The elapsed time between the request
and response was 20 msec (0.020 sec).
The current
time on the client is 4:12:30.510. Using Cristian’s
algorithm, what is the time set to on the
client?

A. 1970-01-01 04:12:30

B. 1970-01-01 04:12:30

C. 1970-01-01 04:12:32

D. 1970-01-01 04:12:32

Answer» C. 1970-01-01 04:12:32

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33. NTP is layer protocol.

A. application

B. session

C. transport

D. physical

Answer» A. application
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34. Which of the following is an example of election algorithm.

A. berkley algorithm:

B. bully algorithm.

C. cristian’s algorithm

D. lamport’s

Answer» B. bully algorithm.

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35. For each critical section (CS) execution, Ricart-Agrawala algorithm requires
messages per CS execution and the Synchronization delay in the
algorithm is .

A. 3(n − 1), t

B. 2(n − 1), t

C. (n − 1), 2t

D. (n − 1), t

Answer» B. 2(n − 1), t

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36. For each critical section (CS) execution, maekawa’s algorithm requires
messages per CS execution and the Synchronization delay in the
algorithm is .

A. √n , t

B. 2√n , t

C. 3√n , t

D. 3√n , 2t

Answer» D. 3√n , 2t
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37. RAYMOND'S TREE BASED ALGORITHM is an

A. non- token based algorithm.

B. token based algorithm.

C. centralized based algorithm

D. physical clock synchronization algorithm.

Answer» B. token based algorithm.

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38. Suzuki-Kasami's Broadcast Algorithm is an

A. non- token based algorithm.

B. token based algorithm.

C. centralized based algorithm

D. physical clock synchronization algorithm.

Answer» B. token based algorithm.

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39. Full form of NTP is:

A. network time protocol

B. new time protocol

C. new timestamp protocol

D. network timestamp protocol

Answer» A. network time protocol

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40. Which algorithm requires "1 to ∞" messages to enter and leave a critical region?

A. token ring algorithm

B. centralized algorithm

Answer» A. token ring algorithm

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40. Which algorithm requires "1 to ∞" messages to enter and leave a critical region?

C. decentralized algorithm

D. distributed algorithm

Answer» A. token ring algorithm

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41. Pretransfering also known as

A. premigrating

B. precopying

C. prefiltering

D. postcopying

Answer» B. precopying
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42. change the state of thread from suspe

A. run()

B. yield()

C. destroy()

D. start()

Answer» D. start()
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43. Distributed syatem consists of set of resour

A. printer

B. processor

C. cd

D. processes

Answer» B. processor
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44. This is not feature of cooperative algorithm

A. complex

B. larger overhead

C. worst stability

D. better stability

Answer» C. worst stability

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45. How is access to resources of various machines is done?

A. remote logging using ssh or telnet

B. zone are configured for automatic access

C. ftp is not used

D. ftp is used

Answer» A. remote logging using ssh or telnet

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46. What are the characteristics of data migration?

A. transfer data by entire file or immediate portion required

B. transfer the computation rather than the data

C. execute an entire process or parts of it at different sites

D. execute an entire process or parts of it at same site

Answer» A. transfer data by entire file or immediate portion required

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47. What are the characteristics of computation migration?

A. transfer data by entire file or immediate portion required

B. transfer the computation rather than the data

C. execute an entire process or parts of it at different sites

D. execute an entire process or parts of it at same site

Answer» B. transfer the computation rather than the data

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48. What are the characteristics of process migr

A. transfer data by entire file or immediate portion required

Answer» C. execute an entire process or parts of it at different sites

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48. What are the characteristics of process migr

B. transfer the computation rather than the data

C. execute an entire process or parts of it at different sites

D. execute an entire process or parts of it at same site

Answer» C. execute an entire process or parts of it at different sites

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49. When the process issues an I/O request

A. it is placed in an i/o queue

B. it is placed in a waiting queue

C. it is placed in the ready queue

D. it is placed in the job queue

Answer» A. it is placed in an i/o queue

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50. Absolute time ordering of all shared accesses matters in

A. sequential consistency

B. casual consistency

C. strict consistency

D. weak consistency

Answer» C. strict consistency

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