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Code No: D0502, D5802 JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD M.Tech II - Semester Examinations, October/November 2011 DISTRIBUTED DATABASES (COMMON TO COMPUTER SCIENCE, COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING) Time: 3hours Max. Marks: 60 Answer any five questions All questions carry equal marks --1.a) b) What type of services are supported by distributed databases? Explain the reference architecture for distributed databases with a neat diagram. [12] Explain the rationale of semi-join reduction in distributed databases. Write short notes on parametric queries.

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What are the goals of a transaction management? Give a brief account of communication failures in distributed databases.

Write notes on concurrency control based on locking in distributed databases. Give a brief account on Serializability in a centralized database. [12] Draw the state diagram of 3-phase commitment protocol and explain. Define Check point and cold restart. Write short notes on synchronization problem for global checkpoints. Why catalogs are used in distributed databases? Give a brief account on enforcing authorization rules. Explain the architecture of object query processor. Write short notes on transaction management in object DBMS. Give a brief account on CORBA architecture. Write short notes on distributed component object model.

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