DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING

1)a)Explain about CORBA object interface. b)Compare TIB and JINI. 2)a)Explain about the grid architecture. b)What are the drawbacks of grid computing? 3)Explain about various parallel programming models and paradigms. 4)a)Explain the comparison between RMI and CORBA. b)Briefly explain about CORBA naming service and interoperable naming service. 5)a)Explain the steps for accessing a remote service in JINI. b)Briefly explain the comparison of WWW And Lotus Notes. 6)a)Briefly explain about resource management system. b)Briefly explain about stream adaptation.

DISTRIBUTED DATABASES 1)a)Write about the properties of transactions. b)Give a brief account of communication failures in distributed databases. 2)a)Write about distributed grouping and aggregate function evaluation. b)Explain about distributed deadlock detection and prevention. 3)a)Define checkpoint and cold restart. b)Write a short notes on synchronization problem for global check points. 4)Write a brief account on CORBA architecture. 5)Write short notes on distributed component object model. 6)a)Draw the state diagram of 3-phase commitment protocol and explain. b)Explain PUSH based technologies.

ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

1)a)What is meant by static branch prediction? b)Explain about thread level parallelism. 2)Explain dynamic scheduling using Tomosulos approach. 3)Explain multiprocessor cache coherence. 4)Explain the designing of clusters with example. 5)a)Explain hardware based speculation. b)Compare and contrast hardware versus software solutions in ILP software approach. 6)a)Write a short notes on RLSC. b)Give a brief account on instruction level parallelism.

ADVANCED COMPUTER NETWORKS

1)a)Distinguish between infrastructure wireless networks and ad-hoc wireless networks. b)What are the various optical networking devices?Explain. 2)Write a short notes on a)Virtual Private Networks. b)The Web and HttP c)Interdomain Multicast Protocols. 3)a)What are principles of application layer protocol. b)Describe the optical routers. 4)a)Define and explain a)Switch b)Wireless Network c)Protocol d)Bridger 5)Explain about mobile IP and the overview of optical networks. 6)a)Compare various VOIP signaling protocols. b)Explain about clustering protocols.

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS

1)a)Explain about selective dissemination of information search. b)Describe about digital libraries. 2)How does the process of information extraction differ from the process of document indexing. 3)Will the clustering process always come to the same final set of clusters no matter what the starting clusters.Justify? 4)Explain hardware and software search algorithms. 5)a)What is meant by automatic indexing?Give the various classes of automatic indexing. b)Explain about statistical indexing. 6)Explain about the following indexing systems. a)full-item indexing b)public-file indexing c)private-file indexing d)multimedia indexing

INFORMATION SECURITY

1)a)Explain about the general techniques that firewalls use to control access and enforce the sites security policy? b)What is meant by trusted system?Discus how Trojan horse is done by the trusted system. 2)a)What is meant by SSL Session and SSL Connection?What parameters define SSL Session and SSL Connection? b)Explain in detail how payment processing is done in SET. 3)Describe in detail the structure of viruses,related threats and their counter measures. 4)a)Explain the digital signature algorithm. b)Explain the X.509 authentication procedures. 5)a)List and explain the pretty good privacy(PGP) services. b)What are the five header fields defined in Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions(MIME).Explain it?