Osmania University (OU) 2010-2nd Year M.C.A iii sem (supplementary) ,, distributed systems - Question Paper

FACULTY OF INFORMATICS CODE NO 4021
M.C.A. III YEAR II SEMESTER (SUPPLEMENTARY) EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2010,
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
ELECTIVE -I

Unit I

1. elaborate THE PROPERTIES OF ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE agents? where do Agents Communication Language(ACL)
fit into the OSI model? Why is it often necessary to specify the ontology in ACL message?

2. compare the architecture of 'D' agents with that of an agent platform in FIFA model?

Unit II

3. discuss all election algorithms with examples.

4. provide a comparison of 3 mutual exclusion algorithms that you have learned.

Unit III

5. discuss client - centric consistency models.

6. discuss about distributed commit and recovery.

Unit IV

7. define the architecture of NFS distributed file system.

8. Compare NFS and Coda distributed file system on major design problems.

unit V

9. discuss all the algorithms for implementing DSM.

OR

10. a) discuss the problems in Load distributing.

b) discuss the problems in task migration.

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Earning:   Approval pending.