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EXTERNAL PRACTICAL QUIZ PAPER BRANCH : CS YEAR : IV SEM : VII-A SUBJECT: DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS SUB. CODE. ECS-701 TOTAL MARKS: 10 TIME: 15 MIN DATE: ROLL NO. (1) A distributed system is (a) A parallel system with shared memory; (b) A collection of independent computers that appears to its users as a single coherent system. (c) A system that has physically distributed memory and a logically shared memory; (d) A system in which each processor must have the same architecture. (2) In distributed systems, there is no global clock because (a) There is no need to have it for distributed applications; (b) It is too easy to accurately synchronize all the local clocks in DS; (c) It is a direct consequence of the fact that the only communication is message passing through a network; (d) None of the above. (3) Network operating system (a) Is used for managing multiprocessors and homogeneous multicomputer; (b) Is used mainly to provide single system image of a distributed system; (c) Is used for heterogeneous multicomputer systems; (d) Must have middleware to share resources across the networked computer system. (4) Location transparency (a) Allows the movement of resources and clients within a system without affecting the operations of users or programs; (b) Enables local and remote resources to be accessed using identical operations; (c) Hides whether a resource is in memory or on disk; (d) Enables resources to be accessed without knowledge of their location.

(5) Regarding to a thread, (a) Multiple threads in a process may share the same address space; (b) A complete independent address space needs to be allocated; (c) When it (thread) is blocked, all the threads in the same process must also be blocked; (d) None of the above. (6) In transient communication, (a) A message being transmitted is stored by the communication system as long as it takes to deliver it to the receiver; (b) A message is stored by communication system only as long as the sending and receiving applications are executing; (c) A sender is blocked until its message is stored in a local buffer at receiving host; (d) None of the above. (7) In synchronous communication, (a) A sender continues immediately after it has submitted its message for transmission; (b) The sender is blocked until its message is stored in a local buffer at receiving host, or to the receiver; (c) Timing plays a crucial role. The two successive messages may have a temporal relationship such as those in video and audio streams in multimedia applications; (d) A message that has been submitted for transmission is stored by the communication system as long as it takes to deliver it to the receiver. (8) Regarding to idempotent operation, (a) Appending data to a file is an idempotent operation; (b) Adding an non-zero number to a bank account is not an idempotent operation; (c) Adding one element to a set is not an idempotent operation; (d) None of the above. (9) In making remote procedure call (RPC), (a) The parameters can be passed by reference and pointer values; (b) The parameters can only be passed by value; (c) The parameters can be any objects; (d) The parameters can only be object references.

(10) In making remote method invocation (RMI), (a) The parameters can only be passed by value; (b) The parameters can be object references; (c) Only remote objects can be used as parameters; (d) Only local objects can be used as parameters.

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