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This document contains 13 questions about various topics in distributed systems. The topics covered include distributed system design issues, remote procedure calls and how they are executed, different RPC communication protocols, group management mechanisms, ordered message delivery and various ordering semantics, clock synchronization algorithms, the need for and explanation of election algorithms, techniques for distributed deadlock detection, desirable features of message passing systems, consistency models in distributed shared memory systems, false sharing and thrashing issues and techniques to address them, and comparisons of load balancing and load sharing approaches.

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BVIT Question Bank Overview

This document contains 13 questions about various topics in distributed systems. The topics covered include distributed system design issues, remote procedure calls and how they are executed, different RPC communication protocols, group management mechanisms, ordered message delivery and various ordering semantics, clock synchronization algorithms, the need for and explanation of election algorithms, techniques for distributed deadlock detection, desirable features of message passing systems, consistency models in distributed shared memory systems, false sharing and thrashing issues and techniques to address them, and comparisons of load balancing and load sharing approaches.

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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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