Code No: R1642051 R16 Set No.
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IV B.Tech II Semester Regular Examinations, September - 2020
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
(Common to Computer Science and Engineering and Information Technology)
Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 70
Question paper consists of Part-A and Part-B
Answer ALL sub questions from Part-A
Answer any FOUR questions from Part-B
*****
PART–A (14 Marks)
1. a) Discuss about client server resource sharing. [3]
b) What is Multicast Transmission in Distributed systems? Discuss. [2]
c) Discuss about Remote Procedure Calls. [2]
d) What is meant by Address space? Discuss. [2]
e) What is election process? Discuss about its goal? [2]
f) What is replication? Differentiate between Active and passive replication. [3]
PART–B (4x14 = 56 Marks)
2. Explain the architectural and fundamental models of distributed systems? [14]
3. a) Explain the client server communication model. Also Discuss about marshaling [7]
in detail.
b) Discuss the issues relating to datagram communication. [7]
4. a) Explain the features of distributed object model [7]
b) Explain the design issues of RMI. [7]
5. a) Briefly explain architecture for multi threaded servers. [7]
b) What is the need for protection? Explain various protection mechanisms [7]
supported by operating systems.
6. a) Discuss the mounting issues of remote file systems on NFS client. [7]
b) Explain about overlay routing? Explain how it useful in peer communication. [7]
7. a) Describe various deadlock handling techniques. [7]
b) Explain about concurrency control in distributed transactions. [7]
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Code No: R1642051 R16 Set No. 2
IV B.Tech II Semester Regular Examinations, September - 2020
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
(Common to Computer Science and Engineering and Information Technology)
Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 70
Question paper consists of Part-A and Part-B
Answer ALL sub questions from Part-A
Answer any FOUR questions from Part-B
*****
PART–A (14 Marks)
1. a) What is meant by distributed system? Give any two examples. [2]
b) Discuss about any three applications of Multicast Transmission in Distributed
systems. [3]
c) What is an event and notifications? [2]
d) What is meant by multi threaded model. Discuss. [2]
e) Define overlay routing? What is its importance? [2]
f) What is dead lock? How deadlock can be handled. [3]
PART–B (4x14 = 56 Marks)
2. a) What do you mean by Scalability of a distributed system? Explain the
principles for designing scalable distributed systems. [10]
b) Explain the security challenges of distributed systems. [4]
3. a) Explain the different methods for inter-process communication. [7]
b) Discuss the issues relating to datagram communication. [7]
4. Discuss the design and implementation issues in Remote Method Invocation. [14]
5. a) Explain the general architecture of operating systems for Distributed Systems [7]
b) What is thread? Explain the life cycle of the thread, with neat state diagram. [7]
6. a) Explain how mutual exclusion is handled in distributed system. [7]
b) Discuss the Napster and its legacy with respect to distributed file systems. [7]
7. a) Explain the basic architectural model for the management of Replicated data. [7]
b) What is transaction? Briefly explain about flat and nested distributed
transactions. [7]
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Code No: R1642051 R16 Set No. 3
IV B.Tech II Semester Regular Examinations, September - 2020
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
(Common to Computer Science and Engineering and Information Technology)
Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 70
Question paper consists of Part-A and Part-B
Answer ALL sub questions from Part-A
Answer any FOUR questions from Part-B
*****
PART–A (14 Marks)
1. a) What is meant by resource sharing? Discuss with an example. [2]
b) Discuss about the characteristics of the IPC. [3]
c) Differentiate static and dynamic invocation methods. [2]
d) Differentiate between process and threads. [3]
e) What is mutual exclusion? List its requirements. [2]
f) Define replication? What is the importance of it? [2]
PART–B (4x14 = 56 Marks)
2. What is distributed systems? Explain its key characteristics of distributed [14]
system in detail.
3. a) What is marshaling? Explain marshaling operations in detail. [7]
b) Explain Multicast transmission in Distributed Systems? Discuss about [7]
important applications of Multicast Transmission in Distributed systems.
4. a) What is the importance of distributed garbage collection? Explain the [7]
Distributed garbage collector algorithm.
b) Discuss about various Remote Procedure Calls. [7]
5. a) What is an Execution environment? Explain in detail about the process [7]
execution environment .
b) Describe the architecture for multi-threaded servers. [7]
6. a) What is distributed file system? Briefly explain the file service architecture. [7]
b) What is the goal of an election algorithm? Explain it detail. [7]
7. a) What is concurrency? Write the importance of concurrency control in [7]
distributed systems.
b) What is distributed deadlock? Explain with example. [7]
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Code No: R1642051 R16 Set No. 4
IV B.Tech II Semester Regular Examinations, September - 2020
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
(Common to Computer Science and Engineering and Information Technology)
Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 70
Question paper consists of Part-A and Part-B
Answer ALL sub questions from Part-A
Answer any FOUR questions from Part-B
*****
PART–A (14 Marks)
1. a) What is meant by failure handling? [2]
b) Discuss about marshaling. [3]
c) What is the importance of distributed garbage collection? [2]
d) Discuss about protection mechanisms supported by operating systems. [3]
e) What are the goals of election algorithm? [2]
f) What is transaction? List the different types of transactions. [2]
PART–B (4x14 = 56 Marks)
2. a) Explain the design requirements and challenges for distributed systems. [10]
b) Explain the client server resource sharing system. [4]
3. a) List and Explain the various socket primitives used in TCP stream
communication. [7]
b) Describe IP Multicast communication. [7]
4. a) With a neat sketch, Explain the implementation of Remote Method Invocation. [7]
b) Explain communication between distributed objects, With a neat diagram. [7]
5. What is thread? Explain the issues related to thread programming, thread
lifecycle, and thread synchronization. [14]
6. a) Explain the techniques to achieve high performance in distributed file systems. [7]
b) Explain the main tasks of Routing Overlays. [7]
7. a) What is replication? Explain about Active and Passive replications [7]
b) Compare and contrast the various methods of concurrency control. [7]
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