Deck 6: File System and Multimedia Management in Distributed Systems

Question 1

What are design issues in distributed system structure?

A)scalability
B)fault-tolerance
C)clustering
D)all of the mentioned

Answer 1

all of the mentioned

Question 2

What is not true about a distributed system?

A)it is a collection of processor
B)all processors are synchronized
C)they do not share memory
D)none of the mentioned

Answer 2

all processors are synchronized

Question 3

What are the characteristics of processor in distributed system?

A)they vary in size and function
B)they are same in size and function
C)they are manufactured with single purpose
D)they are real-time devices

Answer 3

they vary in size and function

Question 4

______ is a unique tag, usually a number identifies the file within the file system.

A)file identifier
B)file name
C)file type
D)none of the mentioned

Question 5

To create a file ____________

A)allocate the space in file system
B)make an entry for new file in directory
C)allocate the space in file system & make an entry for new file in directory
D)none of the mentioned

Question 6

By using the specific system call, we can ____________

A)open the file
B)read the file
C)write into the file
D)all of the mentioned

Question 7

What is the mounting of file system?

A)crating of a filesystem
B)deleting a filesystem
C)attaching portion of the file system into a directory structure
D)removing the portion of the file system into a directory structure

Question 8

Mapping of file is managed by ____________

A)file metadata
B)page table
C)virtual memory
D)file system

Question 9

Mapping of network file system protocol to local file system is done by ____________

A)network file system
B)local file system
C)volume manager
D)remote mirror

Question 10

Which one of the following explains the sequential file access method?

A)random access according to the given byte number
B)read bytes one at a time, in order
C)read/write sequentially by record
D)read/write randomly by record

Question 11

Which of the following are the two parts of the file name?

A)name & identifier
B)identifier & type
C)extension & name
D)type & extension

Question 12

What is the mount point?

A)an empty directory at which the mounted file system will be attached
B)a location where every time file systems are mounted
C)is the time when the mounting is done
D)none of the mentioned

Question 13

When a file system is mounted over a directory that is not empty then _____________

A)the system may not allow the mount
B)the system must allow the mount
C)the system may allow the mount and the directory's existing files will then be made obscure
D)all of the mentioned

Question 14

In distributed file system ________________ directories are visible from the local machine.

A)protected
B)local
C)private
D)remote

Question 15

In the world wide web, a ____ is needed to gain access to the remote files, and separate operations are used to transfer files.

A)laptop
B)plugin
C)browser
D)player

Question 16

Distributed naming services/Distributed information systems have been devised to _____________

A)provide information about all the systems
B)provide unified access to the information needed for remote computing
C)provide unique names to all systems in a network
D)all of the mentioned

Question 17

Domain name system provides _____________

A)host-name-to-network-address translations for the entire internet
B)network-address-to-host-name translations for the entire internet
C)binary to hex translations for the entire internet
D)all of the mentioned

Question 18

What is multimedia file?

A)is same as any other regular file
B)must be accessed at specific rate
C)stored on remote server can not be delivered to its client
D)none of the mentioned

Question 19

In which type of streaming multimedia file is delivered to the client, but not shared?

A)real-time streaming
B)progressive download
C)compression
D)none of the mentioned

Question 20

Which one of the following is the characteristic of a multimedia system?

A)high storage
B)high data rates
C)both high storage and high data rates
D)none of the mentioned

Question 21

The delay that occur during the playback of a stream is called ___________

A)stream delay
B)playback delay
C)jitter
D)event delay

Question 22

Multimedia system require hard real time scheduling ___________

A)to ensure critical tasks will be serviced within timing deadlines
B)to deliver the media file to the client
C)to minimize the delay
D)for security

Question 23

The three general methods for delivering content from a server to a client across a network are ___________

A)unicasting
B)multicasting
C)broadcasting
D)all of the mentioned

Question 24

Unicasting delivers the content to ___________

A)a single client
B)all clients, regardless whether they want the content or not
C)a group of receivers who indicate they wish to receive the content
D)none of the mentioned

Question 25

Broadcasting delivers the content to ___________

A)a single client
B)all clients, regardless whether they want the content or not
C)a group of receivers who indicate they wish to receive the content
D)none of the mentioned