1) What is UTC
2) What is external synchronization
3) What is Internal synchronization
4) What is Clock drift
5) What is Clock skew
6) What is linearization or consistent run
7) What are the essential requirements of mutual exclusion
8) What is the integrity condition of consensus problem
9) What is the integrity condition of Byzantine generals problem
10) What is the integrity condition of interactive consistency problem
11) What is a failure detector
12) What is dirty read
13) What is meant by ‘serial equivalence’
14) What is cascading aborts
15) What are the phases in ‘Optimistic Concurrency Control’
16) What is flat transaction
17) What is nested transaction
18) What is distributed transaction
19) What is phantom deadlock
20) What is FIFO ordering
21) What is Casual ordering
22) What is total ordering
23) What is sequential consistency
24) What is virtual partition
25) What is a ‘checkpoint’