DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

CP7204 / ADVANCED OPERATING SYSTEMS

ACADEMIC YEAR: 2013-2014

BATCH: 2013-2015

DEGREE&BRANCH: M.E. & CSE

YEAR / SEMESTER: I / 02
II UNIT
PART - A

1. What are the advantages of Distributed OS over time-sharing systems ?

2. List the issues in Distributed OS.
3. List the design issues in RPC.
4. What is the limitation of Lamports clocks?
5. What is a Local and Global state?
6. What are the requirements of Mutual exclusion algorithm?
7. What is an centralized and distributed control?
8. Define an path-pushing algorithm.
9. What is an Edge-Chasing algorithm?
10. What is the key point in Ho-Ramamoorthy algorithm?
11. What is the Byzantine Agreement problem?
12. Define Impossibility result?
PART-B
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Briefly explain Distributed OS with its architecture diagram.

Discuss in detail Lamports logical clocks.

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Explain the distributed mutual exclusion algorithms.

Explain briefly Agreement protocols with suitable examples.

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