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Code No: D0502, D5802
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD
M.Tech II - Semester Examinations, October/November 2011
DISTRIBUTED DATABASES
(COMMON TO COMPUTER SCIENCE, COMPUTER SCIENCE &
ENGINEERING)
Time: 3hours Max. Marks: 60
Answer any five questions
All questions carry equal marks
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1.a) What type of services are supported by distributed databases?

b) Explain the reference architecture for distributed databases with a neat diagram.
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2.a)
b) Write short notes on parametric queries.

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Explain the rationale of semi-join reduction in distributed databases.
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3.a) What are the goals of a transaction management?
b) Give a brief account of communication failures in distributed databases. [12]

4.a)
b)
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Write notes on concurrency control based on locking in distributed databases.
Give a brief account on Serializability in a centralized database. [12]

5.a)
b)
c)
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Draw the state diagram of 3-phase commitment protocol and explain.

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Define Check point and cold restart.
Write short notes on synchronization problem for global checkpoints. [12]

6.a)
b)

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Why catalogs are used in distributed databases?
Give a brief account on enforcing authorization rules. [12]

7.a)
b)

8.a)
b)
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Explain the architecture of object query processor.
Write short notes on transaction management in object DBMS.

Give a brief account on CORBA architecture.

Write short notes on distributed component object model.
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