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1) Answer Q1 or Q2, Q3 or Q4, Q5 or Q6, Q7 or Q8.
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Q1) a) What are the general characteristics of inter-process communication?
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communication in IPC? Why it is blocking receive has no disadvantages
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b) What is Network virtualization? What are the types of overlay networks?
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Q2) a) Describe Lamport’s clock algorithm and give an example of how to
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order events in a distributed system. What are the algorithm’s limitations?
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b) Why do we need an election algorithm? Using appropriate diagrams.
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describe the bully algorithm step-by-step. [9]
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Q3) a) What are the key issues in Replica Management? Explain the following
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with respect to content replication and placement with suitable diagram.[9]
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i) Permanent Replicas
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b) What is a primary-based protocol in a consistency protocol? Explain the
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working of replicated write protocols with active replication. [9]
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Q4) a) What is checkpointing in a distributed system? Explain the working of
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Coordinated checkpointing recovery mechanism. [9]
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consistency model with suitable example using distributed shared
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Q5) a) Describe the architecture of Sun Network File System in details. [8]
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What is a Directory Service? What is the difference between DNS and
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support very large multimedia files. How does the BitTorrent protocol
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b) What are web services? Describe with a suitable diagram the general
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Q7) a) Explain the following in brief: [9]
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i) Wearable devices
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Q8) a) Explain in brief the following Distributed System monitoring tools: [9]
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b) Explain in brief following Microkernels. [9]
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