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Q1) a) What are the general characteristics of inter-process communication?

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Q3) a) What are the key issues in Replica Management? Explain the following
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b) What is a primary-based protocol in a consistency protocol? Explain the

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Q4) a) What is checkpointing in a distributed system? Explain the working of

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Q8) a) Explain in brief the following Distributed System monitoring tools: [9]
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