1. Describe atomicity in transactions and how it is important?
2. What value does a unified naming service bring to distributed systems?
3. Name three negative effects of the atomic transaction model
4. What is the purpose of the replication agent in both standby and active high availability strategies?
5. What is the job of the recovery manager in distributed transaction models?
6. Discuss the differences between a logical and regular clocks and under what conditions might you implement a logical clock?
7. Name three challenges of mobile computing in today's highly connected network
8. In what ways has network transparency and the evolution of the modern day internetwork directly conflicted with security models and the protection of computing assets?
9. What are the primary differences between standby and active replication modes as it applies to distributed systems?
10. Explain the steps required to implement the mousetrap extra credit problem "Connect the Chain" beyond the 4 leg mousetrap basic setup (I am looking for what resources would be required, where and what things must change in the mousetrap to accomplish this)
11. What is the virtual filesystem
12. Explain the differences between symmetric and asymmetric keys
13. Explain what three features of DNS have sustained the massive growth of the internet (efficiency aspects)?
14. Explain the concept of mutual exclusion as it applies to distributed systems
15. Explain the challenges (2) of maintaining time in a distributed system
16. How does the Byzantine generals problem relate to concurrency in distributed systems?
17. How can the IAAS (Infrastructure as a Service) implementations of compute resources in AWS benefit distributed systems with respect to process invocation, file access and relational database access? What are some points of contention about deployment in AWS?
18. What are the main differences between singular and two phase atomic commit protocols?
19. How is mutual exclusion implemented in NFS?
20. Explain what techniques have enabled multimedia services to deliver high density content on small form wireless devices?