Spring 2012 Master of Computer Application (MCA) Semester V MC0085 Advanced Operating Systems (Distributed Systems) 4 Credits (Book

ook ID: B 0967) Assignment Set 1 (60 Marks)

Book ID: B 0967 Each Question carries 10 Marks 6 X 10 = 60 Marks

1. Describe the following: o o Distributed Computing Systems Distributed Computing System Models

2. Describe the following with respect to Remote Procedure Calls: o o The RPC Model STUB Generation

3. Describe the following: o o Distributed Shared Memory Systems (DSM) DSM Design & Implementation issues

4. Discuss the clock synchronization algorithms. 5. Discuss the following with respect to Resource Management in Distributed Systems: o o Load Balancing Approach Load Sharing Approach

6. Discuss the following with respect to File Systems: o o Stateful Vs Stateless Servers Caching

Spring 2012 Master of Computer Application (MCA) Semester V MC0085 Advanced Operating Systems (Distributed Systems) 4 Credits (Book ID: B 0967) Assignment Set 2 (60 Marks)
Book ID: B 0967 Each Question carries 10 Marks 6 X 10 = 60 Marks

1. Describe the following: o o Synchronization Buffering

2. Describe the following: o o Communication protocols for RPC Client Server Binding

3. Discuss the following algorithms: o o Centralized Server algorithm Dynamic Distributed Server algorithm

4. Discuss the Election algorithms. 5. Discuss the implementation of threads in Distributed Systems. 6. Discuss the following concepts with respect to Naming: o o Desirable features of a good naming system Name Caches