Distributed Computing System (DCS) MCQ Questions with answers and solutions Page 13

Q. 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

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✅ Correct Answer: (C) remote procedure call

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Q. 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

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✅ Correct Answer: (B) all processors are synchronized

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Q. 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

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✅ Correct Answer: (A) its users, servers and storage devices are dispersed

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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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✅ Correct Answer: (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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✅ Correct Answer: (B) it maintains internally no state information at all

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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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✅ Correct Answer: (A) easier to implement

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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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✅ Correct Answer: (A) improves availability & performance

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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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✅ Correct Answer: (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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✅ Correct Answer: (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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✅ Correct Answer: (A) immutable file

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Distributed Computing System (DCS) MCQs | Page - 13

Q. 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 ________

Q. What is not true about a distributed system?

Q. What are the characteristics of a distributed file system?

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

Q. What is a stateless file server?

Q. What are the characteristics of the stateless server?

Q. What are the advantages of file replication?

Q. What are characteristic of NFS protocol?

Q. What is the coherency of replicated data?

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

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