DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.Sc. (Software Engineering) Years Integrated) DEGREE
EXAMINATION, MAY 2018.
DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
SECTION A — x 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions.
1. How can you implement intranet and describe the
services of intranet?
2. Discuss about IP multicast.
3. Explain how multithreading helps us to maximize the
throughput.
4. What are the uses of cryptography? Explain them briefly.
5. Describe the main design issues of for name services.
6. Describe the procedure for detecting global properties.
7. What are nested transactions? Also write its advantages.
8. How can you detect a distributed deadlock?
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SECTION B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
9. What are the factors to be considered in order to derive
the client-server model and explain.
10. Describe the main features of TCP/IP and write the
advantages and limitations when used in distributed
systems.
11. Explain the distributed object model and describe the
design issues of RMI.
12. Draw the operating system layers and explain. Also
describe the core functionality of OS.
13. Explain the architecture of SUN NFS.
14. Write about Logical time and Logical clocks in detail.
15. Explain the distributed multimedia system.