DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING

1. Which of the following best defines distributed computing?

• a) Computing on a single powerful system

• b) Computing across multiple interconnected computers
  
  

• c) Cloud storage for data backup

• d) Only parallel processing within one CPU

2. What is the main goal of distributed computing?

• a) Increase electricity usage
  

• b) Share resources and improve performance

• c) Eliminate the need for networks
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• d) Reduce system availabili

3. In distributed systems, each computer is called a:

• a) Node

• b) Block

• c) Bit

• d) Cluster

4. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of distributed systems?

• a) Transparency

• b) Scalability

• c) Fault tolerance

• d) Single point of failure

5. What is an example of a peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed system?

• a) Google Docs

• b) Torrent networks

• c) Amazon EC2

• d) Oracle Database

6. In distributed computing, what does "fault tolerance" mean?

• a) System crashes frequently

• b) System continues to work even if some components fail

• c) Faults are never allowed

• d) Backup is always manual

7. Which algorithm is commonly used for synchronization in distributed systems?

• a) Round Robin
  
  
  

• b) Lamport’s Logical Clock

• c) FIFO

• d) Binary Search

8. Which of the following is a distributed computing framework?

• a) MapReduce

• b) Windows OS

• c) MS Word

• d) SQL

9. CAP theorem in distributed systems refers to:

• a) Consistency, Availability, Partition Tolerance

• b) Cloud, Application, Processing

• c) Cache, Access, Processing

• d) Consistency, Accuracy, Performance

10. Which of the following is an advantage of distributed systems?

• a) Easy debugging

• b) Centralized controlb) Centralized control

• c) Scalability and resource sharing

• d) No need for communication