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a) Polling
b) Token Passing
c) Handshaking
d) Generation of Interrupts
5) What in a distributed file system cannot be obtained from the file name of a file? 1 point
6) Which of the following are the characteristics of a fully distributed system? i) When a 1 point
process has executed its critical section, the process then sends reply to all the requests it has
postponed ii) A process can enter the critical section when it has obtained response from all other
processes iii) All requests are handled by a coordinator processor iv) With every critical section entry a
separate request, reply and release
a) ii and iii
b) i and ii
c) ii and iv
d) iii and iv
7) Which of the following is the main principle behind the property of atomicity? 1 point
c) A process can enter the critical section when it has obtained response from all other
processes
8) Which of the following is/are maintained (or coordinated) by the transaction coordinator? 1 point
b) Termination of a transaction
c) Initialising a transaction
9) Which of the following encryption schemes can be used to sign a message? 1 point
a) Private Key
b) Public Key
10)Say we consider a symmetric cryptography based system is used by a group of K people 1 point
for communicating with each other. Following are some of the conditions imposed on the system: a)
everyone communicates secretly with everyone else (i.e. 1 to all other K-1) b) the communication
should not be decodable to anyone else other than the intended recipients. What is the number of keys
required to fulfill the given conditions?
a) K(K-1)
b) K(K-1)/2
c) 2K
d) (K-1)2