My Profile
Active Members
TodayLast 7 Days
more...
Awards & Gifts
Online Exams
Fresher Jobs
Our fresher job section is exclusively for fresh graduates! Find jobs for freshers in major Indian
cities including Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune or Kochi
Resources
Find educational articles, blogs, discussion threads and other resources.
Colleges
Find details about any college in India or search for courses.
|
Download Model question papers & previous years question papers
|
Posted By: India Member Level: Diamond Posted Date: 26 Dec 2007
|
2006 Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University B.E Computer Science IV Year I Sem (NR410502) -Sup.Nov '06 - Distributed Systems Question paper
Code No: NR410502 NR
IV B.Tech I Semester Supplementary Examinations, November 2006
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
( Common to Computer Science & Engineering, Information Technology
and Electronics & Computer Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
1. (a) Differentiate between the monolithic kernel and micro kernel approaches for
designing a distributed operating system. State the relative advantages and
disadvantages.
(b) Why are distributed operating system more difficult to design than operating
systems for centralized time-sharing system? [12+4]
2. (a) Elucidate the main differences between a LAN and a WAN.
(b) Why are medium-access control protocols needed? What properties must a
good medium-access-control protocol have? [8+8]
3. Discuss the strategies used to handle deadlocks and their applicability to distributed
systems. [16]
4. (a) Discuss the issues that has to be considered in allocating processors to processes in a distributed system.
(b) Discuss the hierarchial, heuristic and the bidding algorithm for processor al-
location. [8+8]
5. (a) Write about Satyanarayanan’s observation on file usage in a distributed sys-
tem. How it is useful in implementation of a file system.
(b) Compare write through and write once protocols. [8+8]
6. (a) Explain about Dash(Directory Architecture for shared memory)
(b) How NUMA multiprocessor differ from other multiprocessor. [8+8]
7. (a) Does a process know that a port it is reading from is actually a port set? Does
it matter?
(b) Illustrate the concept of Thread in Mach OS. [6+10]
8. (a) What is the need for distributed file system (in DCE)
(b) Discuss the main features of distributed file system(in DCE) [8+8]
Attachments:
Return to question paper search
|
|
|
Submit Previous Years University Question Papers and make money from adsense revenue sharing program
Are you preparing for a university examination? Download model question papers
and practise before you write the exam.
|
Watch TV Channels
|