Distributed Operating Systems

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In a Distributed Operating System, what is the primary benefit of OS having control over all nodes in the system?

To enable concurrent processing of shared resources
To allow nodes to operate independently without any central control
To reduce the tendency for servers to become bottlenecks
To provide a single system image across the nodes (correct)

What is the primary purpose of Operating System Layer Encapsulation in a Distributed Operating System?

To provide a unified interface for resource management (correct)
To protect resources from illegitimate access
To schedule processes and threads across nodes
To enable concurrent processing of shared resources

What is the primary advantage of using threads in a Distributed Operating System?

To improve the security of resource access
To enable concurrent processing of shared resources (correct)
To reduce the overhead of process creation and context switching
To increase the scalability of the system

What is the primary mechanism used to pass operation parameters and results between resource managers in a Distributed Operating System?

Network Communication (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary purpose of Scheduling in a Distributed Operating System?

To schedule processes and threads across nodes (C) Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary benefit of using invocation mechanisms such as RPC and RMI in a Distributed Operating System?

To facilitate communication between resource managers (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary function of middleware in distributed systems?

To facilitate communication between heterogeneous components (B) Signup and view all the answers

Which protocol is responsible for ensuring reliability of packet delivery in a distributed system?

TCP (B) Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary advantage of distributed systems in terms of resource management?

Autonomous management of resources (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary function of operating system support in a distributed system?

To provide abstraction to physical resources (D) Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is a characteristic of distributed applications?

Concurrent and multithreaded (C) Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary advantage of TCP/IP in distributed systems?

Connection-oriented and reliability (D) Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following statements about asynchronous communication is TRUE?

The sender continues its process after sending the message. (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the main purpose of the Object Request Broker (ORB) in CORBA?

To provide a platform for remote method invocation. (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is a characteristic of a CORBA object?

It can be implemented in any programming language. (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of the interface in CORBA?

To define the name and set of methods for clients. (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the main advantage of using CORBA in distributed systems?

It allows for remote method invocation regardless of the programming language. (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is the role of IDL in CORBA?

It is used to define the interface for clients. (C) Signup and view all the answers