BVIT Prelim DS

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BVIT Prelim

1. What is a DS? Discuss its advantages and disadvantages. 6

2. Discuss briefly the various issues related to distributed system design. 10

3. What is RPC? List the steps involved in RPC execution. 7

4. Distinguish between the different RPC communication protocols. 5

5. Explain group management mechanism. 7

6. What ordered message delivery. Compare the various ordering semantics for message
passing. Explain how each of these semantics is implemented. 7

7. Discuss briefly the various clock synchronization algorithms. 10

8. Why is there a need for using election algorithms in distributed systems? Explain any
one election algorithm. 7

9. Short note: Techniques for distributed deadlock detection 10

10. Explain desirable features of a good message passing system. 5

11. Discuss the different consistency models used in distributed shared memory systems.
10

12. Explain False Sharing and Thrashing. Also discuss techniques used to handle these
issues. 7

13. Compare and contrast load balancing and load sharing approaches in distributed systems. 9

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