SRM University 2007 B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering BANK for DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING - Question Paper

SRM INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOY
KATTANKULATHUR

ques. BABK
SUB CODE : CS308
SUB TITLE: DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING


UNIT I

1. .What is Distributed System?
2. .List the advantages of Distributed System over Centralized System
3. List the advantages of Distributed System over Personal Computer.
4. List the Disadvantages of Distributed Systems.
5. .Briefly discuss the Flynn’s Classification of computers
6. .Write short note on Tightly coupled System.
7. Write short note on Loosely coupled System.
8. What is meant by write Through Cache
9. What is meant by Snoopy Cache.
10. Write a note on Bus Based Multiprocessor.
11. Write a note on Crossbar Switches.
12. What is MultiComputer?
13. List the types of Transparency in DS
14. Differentiate Monolithic Kernel and Micro Kernel
15. What are the services given by Micro Kernel
16. Differentiate fine-Grained Parallelism and Coarse Grained Parallelism
17. What are the Characteristics of Centralized algorithm
18. Write a few of the potential bottlenecks that should be avoided in very large distributed systems


PART B
1.Explain the advantages and disadvantages of Distributed Systems
2.Explain any 2 hardware design of System
3.Explain the design of Busbased multicomputer
4. discuss the design of Busbased multiprocessor.
5. discuss the design of Switched multiprocessor.
6. discuss the design of Switched multicomputer.
7.Explain the concepts of Network operating system in detail.
8.Explain actual distributed system in detail
9.Explain about timesharing systems
10.Discuss the different design problems of Distributed systems

UNIT II

PART A
1. What is Request/Reply protocol?
2. what are the 2 system calls used for communication in the client/server model?
3. Explain about Send primitive
4. Explain the receive primitive
5. What are the methods used for addressing processes
6. How process is addressed using broadcast
7. What are the solutions to overcome the issues faced in nonblocking primitive
8. Differentiate Buffered & Unbuffered message passing.
9. What is meant by Buffered Message passing?
10. How remote procedure call is made.
11. What is Syntactic transparency?
12. What is semantic transparency?
13. What is stub? How it is generated.
14. What is RPC Runtime?
15. What is Interface?
16. What is Binding Agent?
17. What are 3 primitives of Binding Agent?
18. What are the features of RPC?
19. What is meant by callback RPC?
20. List different kinds of packets.
21. What are elements involved in the implementation of RPC?
22. What is meant by Server Locating?
23. Explain the task of Client Stub.
24. Explain the task of Server Stub.
25. Write a short note on Batch mode RPC.
26. Write a short note on Broadcast.
PART B

Earning:   Approval pending.