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QUESTION BANK
BY
T. Rajesh,
Lecturer,
Computer Science & Engineering Department
CHAPTER – 1
1. Define a distributed operating system? Explain 3 important features of DOS?
6. What are the issues concerned with design of distributed operating system?
Explain.
7. Briefly explain the major technological, economical and social factors that
motivated
the development of distributed computing system. Further enlist the main
advantage
and disadvantages of DCS over centralized ones.
1. Describe blocking and non blocking types of IPC. Which is easier to implement
and why? Discuss their relative advantages and disadvantages.
8. What do you mean by absolute ordering. Consistent ordering and casual ordering
of
messages?
Explain further indicate a mechanism to implement each one of them.
CHAPTER – 3 [RPC]
1. What is a stub? How are stubs generated? Explain how the use of stubs helps
in making a RPC mechanism transparent.
2. What is an orphan call? How are orphan calls handled in the implementation
of the following types of call semantics? a. last – one call semantics b. last-
of-many call semantics c.atleast- once call semantics.
7.What is callback RPC facility? Give an example of an application where this may
be useful. What are the main issues involved in supporting this facility in a RPC
system? State the mechanism to handle each of these issues.
1.Explain DSM.What are the design and implementation issues of DSM? Indicate the
figure.
3. What are the main causes of thrashing in a DSM system? What are the methods
to solve the thrashing problem in DSM?
7. Discuss the main causes of thrashing in a DSM system. Further describe the
commonly employed methods to solve the thrashing problem indicating their
suitability in different fields.
CHAPTER -5 [synchronization]