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Distributed Computing System (DCS) Solved MCQs (Set-4)

This document provides 100 multiple choice questions about distributed computing systems and distributed file systems. Some key points covered include: - XDR stands for external data representation in distributed file systems. - Scalability refers to a file system growing without affecting system performance. - Storing files in secondary memory makes them permanently available. - Network File System (NFS) was developed by Sun Microsystems. - Immutable files cannot be changed once created. - Remote Procedure Calls allow communication between processes on separate systems. - Remote Method Invocation allows a thread to invoke a method on a remote object. - Distributed systems have users, servers, and storage devices dispersed across a network. - File replication improves availability

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Distributed Computing System (DCS) Solved MCQs (Set-4)

This document provides 100 multiple choice questions about distributed computing systems and distributed file systems. Some key points covered include: - XDR stands for external data representation in distributed file systems. - Scalability refers to a file system growing without affecting system performance. - Storing files in secondary memory makes them permanently available. - Network File System (NFS) was developed by Sun Microsystems. - Immutable files cannot be changed once created. - Remote Procedure Calls allow communication between processes on separate systems. - Remote Method Invocation allows a thread to invoke a method on a remote object. - Distributed systems have users, servers, and storage devices dispersed across a network. - File replication improves availability

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Distributed Computing System (DCS) MCQs

[set-4]

76. In distributed file system,XDR stands for?


A. external data request
B. external device request
C. external data recovery
D. external data representation
Answer: D

77. If file system is growing without affecting performance of the system then this
feature is called as?
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A. union
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B. portable
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C. robust
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D. scalability
Answer: D
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78. Storing file in M it permanently available
makes
A. secondary memory
B. ram
C. register
D. dram
Answer: A

79. Session file sharing semantics are suitable for caching


A. complete folder
B. complete file
C. one byte
D. one block
Answer: B

80. Network file system(NFS) is developed by?


A. sun microsystem
B. oracle
C. apple
D. honeywell
Answer: A

81. The file once created can not be changed is called


A. rigid file
B. rex file
C. immutable file
D. robust file
Answer: C

82. 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
Answer: C

83. To differentiate the many network services a system supports ______ are used.
A. variables
B. sockets
C. ports
D. service names
Answer: C

84. RPC provides a(an) _____ on the client side, a separate one for each remote
procedure.
A. stub
B. identifier
C. name
D. process identifier
Answer: A

85. What is stub?

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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
Answer: D

86. 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
Answer: C

87. What is the full form of RMI?


A. remote memory installation
B. remote memory invocation
C. remote method installation
D. remote method invocation
Answer: D

88. 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
Answer: B

89. 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
Answer: C

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90. 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
Answer: B

91. 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
Answer: A

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


A. resource sharing
B. computation speedup
C. reliability
D. simplicity
Answer: D

93. 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
Answer: B

94. 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
Answer: A

95. What are the advantages of file replication?


A. improves availability & performance

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B. decreases performance
C. they are consistent
D. improves speed
Answer: A

96. 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
Answer: D

97. 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
Answer: D

98. The file once created can not be changed is called ___________
A. immutable file
B. mutex file
C. mutable file
D. none of the mentioned
Answer: A

99. ______ 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
Answer: D

100. _______ is not possible in distributed file system.


A. file replication
B. migration
C. client interface

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D. remote access
Answer: B

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