Assignment -1 -- Distributed Systems -- 4/4 CSE

1) What are the different problems that are encountered due to heterogeneity in design of Distributed Systems?
2) What is transparency and write in detail about different types of transparency.
3) Write about different system architectures in distributed systems.
4) Write about a) CORBA's common data representation
b) Java Object Serialization
c) XML
5) Discuss in detail design issues of RMI.
6) Discuss different architectures for multi threaded servers.
7) Discuss different operating system architectures.
8) Write about x.500 directory service.
9) Discuss various failure models.