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Agni College of Technology

Thalambur, Chennai 600 130
Office of Examcell
Internal Test-1
Sub Name : Distributed Systems
Sub Code : CS6601 Department : CSE
Date : 18.01.2019 Year & Sec : III – A&B
Timing : 12:45 pm to 3:45 pm Max Mark : 100 Marks
PART – A (10 x 2 = 20 Marks)
1. List the limitations of distributed system. [CO1]
2. Define distributed system. [CO2]
3. What are the two type of resource sharing? [CO3]
4. List the distributed systems challenges? [CO4]
5. What are the security challenges? List them. [CO5]
6. Differentiate between RMI and RPC? [CO1]
7. What is meant by group communication? [CO2]
8. Write the characteristics of multicast communication [CO3]
9. Draw the Middleware Architecture. [CO4]
10. Mention the properties of indirect communication. [CO5]

PART – B (5 x 13 = 65 Marks)
11. (a) State and explain the challenges of distributed systems. [CO1]
[13]
(Or)
(b) Elucidate the trends in distributed systems. [CO1]
[13]

12. (a) Write in detail about the examples of distributed systems. [CO1]
[13]
(Or)
(b) Summarize in detail about resource sharing and the challenges [CO1]
involved in it. [13]

13. (a) Explain in detail about the fundamental model of communication in [CO1]
distributed systems. [13]
(Or)

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 (b) Illustrate the TCP and UDP communication with suitable example [CO1]
programs. [13]

14. (a) Write down the steps in javaRMI and explain it with suitable [CO1]
programs. [13]
(Or)
(b) Explain in detail the RPC architecture with the functionality of [CO1]
components. [13]

15. (a) What is purpose of external data representation and marshaling? [CO1]
Discuss. [13]
(Or)
(b) Explain in detail about publish-subscribe system. [CO1]
[13]

PART – C (1 x 15 = 15 Marks)
16. (a) Discuss MPI. [CO1]
[15]

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