Gargi Memorial Institute of Technology Campus

1stInternal Examination for 4th year B. Tech course for the year 2020-2021
(Semester VII)

Subject: Distributed Operating System

Department: CSE
Subject Code: CS 704A
Full Marks: 25 Time: 1 hour

Short Answer Type(5*1 marks)

1. A loosely coupled system is
a)parallel processing system b) distribute computing system
c)real time system d)pipelined processing system
2.The high paging activity is called
a)inter-process communication b)thrashing
c)context switch d)none of these
3. DCE stands for
a)Data computing environment b)Distributed computing engine
c)none of these d)Distributed computing
environment
4.IPC can be done through
a)mails b)messages
c)system calls d)traps
5.LAMPORT logical clock comes under
a)mutual exclusion b)deadlock detection
c)deadlock recovery d)deadlock prevention

Short Answer Type(5*2 marks)

6. What will be the time complexity of Lamport logical clock?
7.How you can define the cascading definition of Distributed system?
8. Point out how the user level thread and kernel level thread can be differentiate?
9.What are the desirable feature of good message passing system?
10.How the transparency property of DOS can be achieved?

Long Answer types(1*10 marks)

11. How the RPC is implemented in DOS? What are the shortcomings of Lamport Logical
Clock? Explain Lamport Logical clock algorithm for mutual exclusion? 4+2+4