Distributed Computing MCQ

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Question 1001 : Which set of events is concurrent (all events are concurrent with each other)?

  1. (3, 1, 5, 7), (3, 2, 6, 7), (2, 1, 6, 8)
  2. (2, 1, 3, 4), (2, 2, 3, 3), (3, 3, 2, 5)
  3. (1, 2, 3, 4), (2, 3, 4, 5), (3, 4, 5, 6)
  4. (1, 5, 6, 7), (1, 4, 5, 7), (1, 3, 2, 2)
  

Question 1002 : Which of the following is/are the advantages of load balancing. i) It improves the system performance ii) Response time beomes longer iii) small jobs do not suffer from long starvation

  1. i and iii only
  2. ii and iii only
  3. i and ii only
  4. All i, ii and iii
  

Question 1003 : The Resource Reservation Protocol is __________________ layer protocol designed to reserver resources in Distributed Computing.

  1. Transport Layer
  2. Network Layer
  3. Interface Layer
  4. Internet Layer
  

Question 1004 : What are the characteristics of process migration?

  1. transfer data by entire file or immediate portion required
  2. transfer the computation rather than the data
  3. execute an entire process or parts of it at different sites
  4. execute limited portion of data
  

Question 1005 : Which among below is not Distributed system models are

  1. Architectural model
  2. Interaction model
  3. Fault model
  4. Performance model
  

Question 1006 : In weak consistency-------

  1. All read or write operation on data items are allowed to be performed until all previous operations to synchronization variables have been performed
  2. No read or write operation on data items are allowed to be performed until all previous operations to synchronization variables have been performed
  3. One read or write operation on data items are allowed to be performed until all previous operations to synchronization variables have been performed
  4. Two read or write operation on data items are allowed to be performed until all previous operations to synchronization variables have been performed
  

Question 1007 : Which of the following is NOT a Significant Consequence of Distributed Systems.

  1. Concurrency of components
  2. Lack of global clock
  3. Independent failures of components
  4. Scalability
  

Question 1008 : Other organizations are able to run their ______________on the Google platform.

  1. own web applications
  2. own services
  3. own queries
  4. own network programs
  

Question 1009 : which of the following is not basic requirements of Mutual Exclusion Algorithms

  1. Safety property
  2. Liveness property
  3. Fairness
  4. System throughput
  

Question 1010 : Which is not possible in distributed file system?

  1. File replication
  2. Migration
  3. Client interface
  4. Remote access
  

Question 1011 : Multiprogramming is mainly accomplished by:

  1. os
  2. software
  3. hardware
  4. program
  

Question 1012 : What is common problem found in distributed system ?

  1. Process Synchronization
  2. Communication synchronization
  3. Deadlock problem
  4. Power failure
  

Question 1013 : Cambridge file server is belongs to which unit data transfer model used for file accessing in DFS

  1. File Level Transfer Mode
  2. Byte Level Transfer Model
  3. Record Level Transfer Model
  4. Block Level Transfer Model
  

Question 1014 : What is not a major reason for building distributed systems?

  1. Resource sharing
  2. Computation speedup
  3. Reliability
  4. Simplicity
  

Question 1015 : Which event is concurrent with the vector clock (2, 8, 4)?

  1. (3,9,5)
  2. (3,8,4)
  3. (1,7,3)
  4. (4,8,2)
  

Question 1016 : Which is not an examples of state information ?

  1. Mounting information
  2. Description of HDD space
  3. Session keys
  4. Lock status
  

Question 1017 : Which are the two complementary deadlock-prevention schemes using timestamps?

  1. The wait-die & wound-wait scheme
  2. The wait-n-watch scheme
  3. The wound-wait scheme
  4. The wait-wound & wound-wait scheme
  

Question 1018 : The capability of a system to adapt the increased service load is called ___________

  1. scalability
  2. tolerance
  3. capacity
  4. polling
  

Question 1019 : At any point of time number of coordinator in distributed system is______.

  1. At least one
  2. One and only one
  3. At most one
  4. More than one
  

Question 1020 : Increasing the speedup for parallel processor which law is suitable

  1. Amdhals law
  2. Flynns law
  3. Minsky conjecture
  4. Moores Law
  

Question 1021 : What is Inter process communication?

  1. allows processes to communicate and synchronize their actions when using the same address space
  2. allows processes to communicate and synchronize their actions without using the same address space
  3. allows the processes to only synchronize their actions without c
  4. communicate with one another without resorting to shared dat
  

Question 1022 : A remote procedure call is __________.

  1. a single process
  2. a single thread
  3. a single stream
  4. inter-process communication
  

Question 1023 : In a multi-processor configuration two coprocessors are connected to host 8086 processor. The instruction sets of the two coprocessors

  1. must be same
  2. may overlap
  3. must be disjoint
  4. must be the same as that of host