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B.E / B.TECH DEGREE EXAMINATION Nov / Dec 2015
C52056 Distributed Systems
(REGULATION 2008)
1. (i) State and explain the challenges of distributed systems.
(ii) Define the term distributed system. Explain with two examples.
2. Explain abut the internet protocols? (16)
3. a. Describe details about architectural model? (8)
b. Describe details about functional model? (8)
4. Describe in detail about client - server communication. (16)
5. Discuss the design and implementation issues in Remote Method Invocation.
6. Explain the various type communications. (16)
7. a. Explain characteristics of interprocess communication.(8)
b. Explain UDP datagram communication (8)
8. Describe java RMI (16)
9. (i) Name all modules of file system operations and write in detail about distributed file system
requirements.
(ii) Discuss the mounting issues of remote file systems on NFS client. (8+8)
10. What is name service? What are its goals? How it is implemented? What is directory service?
11. Explain Processes and threads (16)
12. Explain Global States and distributed debugging (16)
13. Explain the case study of Global name services. (16)
14 Explain the case study of X.500 directory services. (16)
15. Explain about the Events and process state. (16)
16. (i) What is the goal of an election algorithm? Explain it detail. (8)
(ii) Explain how mutual exclusion is handled in distributed system. (8)
17. Explain Time stamp ordering in detail (16)
18. Explain about distributed deadlocks (16)
19. Explain in detail about concurrency control in transaction. (16)
20. a. Explain optimistic concurrency control (8)
b. Explain in detail about comparison of methods of concurrency control (8)

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