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Q. What is not a major reason for building distributed systems?

  • (A) resource sharing
  • (B) computation speedup
  • (C) reliability
  • (D) simplicity

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Q. What is a stateless file server?

  • (A) it keeps tracks of states of different objects
  • (B) it maintains internally no state information at all
  • (C) it maintains some information in them
  • (D) none of the mentioned

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Q. What are the characteristics of the stateless server?

  • (A) easier to implement
  • (B) they are not fault-tolerant upon client or server failures
  • (C) they store all information file server
  • (D) they are redundant to keep data safe

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Q. What are the advantages of file replication?

  • (A) improves availability & performance
  • (B) decreases performance
  • (C) they are consistent
  • (D) improves speed

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Q. What are characteristic of NFS protocol?

  • (A) search for file within directory
  • (B) read a set of directory entries
  • (C) manipulate links and directories
  • (D) all of the mentioned

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Q. What is the coherency of replicated data?

  • (A) all replicas are identical at all times
  • (B) replicas are perceived as identical only at some points in time
  • (C) users always read the most recent data in the replicas
  • (D) all of the mentioned

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Q. The file once created can not be changed is called ___________

  • (A) immutable file
  • (B) mutex file
  • (C) mutable file
  • (D) none of the mentioned

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Q. ______ of the distributed file system are dispersed among various machines of distributed system.

  • (A) clients
  • (B) servers
  • (C) storage devices
  • (D) all of the mentioned

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Q. _______ is not possible in distributed file system.

  • (A) file replication
  • (B) migration
  • (C) client interface
  • (D) remote access

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Q. What are design issues in distributed system structure?

  • (A) scalability
  • (B) fault-tolerance
  • (C) clustering
  • (D) all of the mentioned

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