Distributed System MCQ

1. Resources and clients transparency that allows movement

within a system is called ____________________

(A) Mobility transparency

(B) Concurrency transparency

(C) Replication transparency

(D) Performance transparency

Answer: A

2. A distributed system :
(A) is defined as a collection of autonomous computers linked by a network with
software designed to produce an integrated computing facility
(B) is defined as a collection of autonomous computers not linked by a network with
software designed to produce an integrated computing facility
(C) is defined as a collection of autonomous computers(limited to 100) linked by a
network with software
(D) none of the above

Answer: A

3. Which amongst the following is not an advantage of Distributed

systems?
(A) Resource sharing

(B) Incremental growth

(C) Reliability

(D) None of the above

Answer: C
4. If one site fails in distributed system, ___________
(A) the remaining sites can continue operating

(B) all the sites will stop working

(C) directly connected sites will stop working

(D) none of the mentioned

Answer: A

5. The capability of a system to adapt the increased service load is

called _________
(A) capacity

(B) tolerance
(C) scalability

(D) none of the mentioned

Answer: C

6. What are characteristic of Network Operating Systems ?

(A) Users are aware of multiplicity of machines

(B) They are transparent

(C) They are simple to use

(D) All of the mentioned

Answer: A
7. What is the characteristics of atomicity ?

(A) Use communication links

(B) One processor as coordinator which handles all requests
(C) When responses are received from all processes, then process can enter its Critical
Section
(D) All operations associated are executed to completion or none are performed

Answer: D
8. Network operating system runs on ___________
(A) every system in the network

(B) server
(C) both server and every system in the network

(D) none of the mentioned

Answer: B

9. The transparency that enables multiple instances of resources

to be used, is called ____________

(A) Performance transparency

(B) Scaling transparency

(C) Concurrency transparency

(D) Replication transparency

Answer: D

10. A set of highly integrated machines that run the same process
in parallel is known to be ___________

(A) Space based

(B) Loosely coupled

(C) Tightly coupled

(D) Peer-to-Peer

Answer: C
11. Which of the following will be true distributed system ?
(A) tightly-coupled software on loosely-coupled hardware

(B) loosely-coupled software on tightly-coupled hardware

(C) tightly-coupled software on tightly-coupled hardware

(D) loosely-coupled software on loosely-coupled hardware

Answer: A
12.Distributed systems should ?
(A) high security

(B) have better resource sharing

(C) better system utilization

(D) low system overhead

Answer: B

13.Scalability basically refers to the size of the network that is to

be used and it consists for various sizes. Thus this may create

some problems in the network. To solve the scalability problem,

which are basically three techniques for scaling?

I. Hiding communication latencies

II. Distribution

III. Replication
(A) I, III

(B) II, III

(C) I, II

(D) I, II, III

Answer: D

14.Distributed OS works on the ________ principle.

(A) File Foundation

(B) Multi system image

(C) Single system image

(D) Networking image

Answer: C
15.Distributed systems do not have __________

(A) high security

(B) better resource sharing

(C) scalability
(D) tightly coupled software

Answer: B

16.What is not true about distributed system ?

(A) It is a collection of processor

(B) All processors are synchronized

(C) They do not share memory

(D) None of the mentioned

Answer: B

17.What are characteristics of Distributed Operating system ?

(A) Access is done like local resources

(B) Users are aware of multiplicity of machines

(C) none of above

(D) They have multiple zones to access files

Answer: A

18.In distributed file system, when a file’s physical storage

location changes ________________

(A) file name need to be changed

(B) file name need not to be changed

(C) file’s host name need to be changed

(D) file’s local name need to be changed

Answer: B
19.All the resources are tightly coupled in the computing
paradigm of __________

(A) Cloud computing

(B) Parallel computing

(C) Distributed computing

(D) Centralized computing

Answer: D

20.The transparency that enables accessing local and remote

resources using identical operations is called ____________

(A) Access transparency

(B) Concurrency transparency

(C) Performance transparency

(D) Scaling transparency

Answer: A

21.Individual wires from machine to machine, with many different

wiring patterns in use is an example of _________

(A) Switched
(B) Bus

(C) Both
(D) None of the mentioned

Answer: A
22.There are four requirements in the design of a distributed
system. Choose the correct combination from the list below.

(A) Network performance, Quality of Service (QoS), Caching and

replication, Dependability issues

(B) Network dependency, Quantity of Service (QoS), Cookies and

replication, Dependability issues.

(C) Network integrity, Quality of Software (QoS), Caching and

alteration, Dependability issues

(D) Network Accessibility, Quality of hardware (QoH), Caching and

replication, Dependability issues.

Answer: A

23.Concurrency is one of the intrinsic characteristics of distributed

systems. Here, Parallel executions occurs because __________

(A) Many users simultaneously invoke commands or interact with

(the same) application programs.

(B) Many server processes run concurrently, each corresponding

to a single request from a client process.

(C) A and B Both

(D) None of these

Answer: C
24."Consider the two statements.

(A) A network operating system, the users access remote

resources in the same manner as local resource.

(B) In a distributed operating system, the user can access remote

resources either by logging into the appropriate remote machine

or transferring data from the remote machine to their own

machine. Which of the statement is true?

(A) A true, B false

(B) B true, A false

(C) Both A and B false

(D) Both A and B true

Answer: C

25. Location transparency allows for which of the

following?
(A) Users to treat the data as if it is at one location

(B) Programmers to treat the data as if it is at one location

(C) Managers to treat the data as if it is at one location

(D) All of the above.

Answer: D

26. What are the Advantages of Distributed

Systems over Independent PCs?

(A) Data sharing

(B) Resource Sharing

(C) Communication
(D) All of the above

Answer: D
27.The characteristics of a distributed system are :

(A) Resource sharing, heterogeneity, openness, security

(B) Scalability, fault handling

(C) Concurrency, transparency

(D) ALL are acceptable answers

Answer: D

28.Which are the characteristics of a decentralized algorithms:

I. No machine has complete information about the system state.

II. Machines make decisions based only on local information.

III. Failure of one machine does not damage the algorithm.

IV. There is no implicit assumption that a global clock exist

(A) I, II, IV
(B) II, III, IV

(C) I, II, III, IV

(D) I, II, III

Answer: C

29.What is not a major reason for building distributed systems ?

(A) Resource sharing

(B) Computation speedup

(C) Reliability
(D) Simplicity

Answer: D
30.What are design issues in distributed system structure ?

(A) Scalability
(B) Fault-tolerance

(C) Flexibility
(D) All of the mentioned

Answer: D