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Q. Remote Procedure Calls are used ____________

  • (A) for communication between two processes remotely different from each other on the same system
  • (B) for communication between two processes on the same system
  • (C) for communication between two processes on separate systems
  • (D) none of the mentioned

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Q. To differentiate the many network services a system supports ______ are used.

  • (A) variables
  • (B) sockets
  • (C) ports
  • (D) service names

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Q. RPC provides a(an) _____ on the client side, a separate one for each remote procedure.

  • (A) stub
  • (B) identifier
  • (C) name
  • (D) process identifier

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Q. What is stub?

  • (A) transmits the message to the server where the server side stub receives the message and invokes procedure on the server side
  • (B) packs the parameters into a form transmittable over the network
  • (C) locates the port on the server
  • (D) all of the mentioned

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Q. To resolve the problem of data representation on different systems RPCs define _____________

  • (A) machine dependent representation of data
  • (B) machine representation of data
  • (C) machine-independent representation of data
  • (D) none of the mentioned

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Q. What is the full form of RMI?

  • (A) remote memory installation
  • (B) remote memory invocation
  • (C) remote method installation
  • (D) remote method invocation

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Q. The remote method invocation __________

  • (A) allows a process to invoke memory on a remote object
  • (B) allows a thread to invoke a method on a remote object
  • (C) allows a thread to invoke memory on a remote object
  • (D) allows a process to invoke a method on a remote object

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Q. A process that is based on IPC mechanism which executes on different systems and can communicate with other processes using message based communication, is called ________

  • (A) local procedure call
  • (B) inter process communication
  • (C) remote procedure call
  • (D) remote machine invocation

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Q. What is not true about a distributed system?

  • (A) it is a collection of processor
  • (B) all processors are synchronized
  • (C) they do not share memory
  • (D) none of the mentioned

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Q. What are the characteristics of a distributed file system?

  • (A) its users, servers and storage devices are dispersed
  • (B) service activity is not carried out across the network
  • (C) they have single centralized data repository
  • (D) there are multiple dependent storage devices

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