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Attempt all multiple choice questions choosing correct option (i) Communication is achieved in distributed system by (a) Disk Sharing (b) Shared memory location (c) File sharing (d) Message passing (ii) The distributed system is a collection of (a)Loosely coupled hardware on tightly coupled software (b) Tightly coupled hardware on loosely coupled software (c) Tightly coupled software on loosely coupled hardware (d) loosely coupled software on tightly coupled hardware

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In which state transactions executes the final statement (a)Committed (b) Abort (c)Active (d) partially committed Replication transparency (a)Enables the concealment of faults (b) Allow the movement of resources (c) Enables multiple instances of resources (d) Allows system and applications to expand CORBA is a (a) Hardware (b) Software (c) Middleware (d) Firmware Platform is a combination of (a) Application and operating system (b) Middleware and operating system (c) Middleware and computer hardware (d) Operating system and computer hardware

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Section B *Attempt any four of the following questions 2. (a) What are distributed systems? What are significant advantages and limitations of Distributed Systems? (b) What is the problem of distributed deadlock detection? What are the differences in Centralized, Distributed and Hierarchical control organizations for distributed deadlock detection?

3. (a) What are Vector clocks? What are the advantages of Vector clock over Lamports clock? (b) Write short note on CORBA services. 4. (a) Explain distributed file system and architecture of distributed file system. (b) What do you mean by Casual Ordering of message? Give an algorithm for casual ordering of message. 5. (a) What do you mean by Digital Signature? Explain the different methods for generating and verifying signatures? (b) What is Election Algorithm? Explain Bully Algorithm.\ 6. (a) What are commit protocols? Explain Two-phase commit protocol. (b) what are the differences in centralized and distributed algorithms? How is the performance of distributed algorithm evaluated? 7. (a) What do you mean by distributed obects? Explain the concept of remote method invocation with a suitable example. (b) Explain distributed file system and architecture of distributed file system.