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B. E. VIllth Semester Computer Science Examination
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM
Paper-CSE 454-C
Time allowed: 3 hours
lvl(vdmum Marks: 100
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Note: Attempt any five questions.

L W What is meant by distributed systems? What are the

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advantages of distributed systems· over independent
PC's? 10

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~ from a distributed operating system. 10
I ~ 00 For each of the following applications do you think
atleast once semantics or atmost once semantics is
best. Discuss :

(i) Reading and writing files from a file server. (ii)

Compiling a program
(iii) Remote Banking. 15
(b) How 2,., atomic broaucast h: u-.;ed to manage grou!1
membership? 5
3. (a) Name atleast three sources of delay that can be
introduced between WWV broadcasting the time and
the processors in a distributed system setting their
internal clocks? 6
(b) Give the full algorithm for whether an attempt to lock
a file should succeed or fail. Consider both read and
write locks, and the possibility that the file was
unlocked, read locked or write locked. 14

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 4. Discuss the issue of fault tolerance in distributed systems.
Also discuss three approaches towards fault tolerance. 20

5. Discuss the network file system architecture and

implementation in detail.
20

6. Discuss the page based distributed shared memory in detail. ?n

7. (a)
A university is installing DCE on all computers in
campus. Suggest atleast two ways to divide the
machines into cells. 10
(b) Mach has a system call that allows a process to
request
that non-Mach traps be given to a special handler,
rather than causing the process to be killed. What is
8. Write shortthis
notes on : call good for? 10
system
DisuibuLt:J file system components in client Kernel
in DCE. 10
(ii) Distributed shared memory in Mach. 10

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