CS435 - Distributed Systems<br>
with Dr. Basit Qureshi<br>
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Tutorial 2<br>
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Complete the following tasks.

<li>Read <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.4395" target="_blank"> S. M. Thampi ,"Introduction to Distributed Systems", arXiv:0911.4395, 2009. </a></li>
<li>Read <a href="http://www.hpcs.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/~tatebe/lecture/h23/dsys/dsd-tutorial.html" target="_blank"> Introduction to Distributed System Design - Google Code University </a></li>
<br>Answer the following questions:<br>
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<li>List the challenges in a Dist. System.</li>
<li>What is Partial failure in Dist. Systems? Can there be a total failure?</li>
<li>Explain how recovery works in Dist. Systems?</li>
<li>How does caching differ from replication?</li>
<li>Often TCP/IP protocol is used for Dist. Systems communication. What could go wrong with Async. mode data transmission in a Dist System.</li>
<li>What is RPC? How is this different from System call?</li>
<li>What are the security challanges in Dist. Systems?</li>