17-Comp-B10 Distributed Systems — National Exams, May 2019. 3 hours, closed book, Casio/Sharp approved calculator only. Candidates were instructed to answer any five of the six questions, only the first five as they appear in the answer book marked, with most questions requiring an essay-format answer; all six are answered below as a complete study resource.
Reference texts: Coulouris, Dollimore, Kindberg & Blair, Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design (5th ed.) — system models, characterization of distributed systems and openness (ch. 1–2), networking and internetworking, TCP/IP (ch. 3), interprocess communication and remote invocation, RPC (ch. 4–5), operating system support (ch. 6–7), security (ch. 11), distributed file systems (ch. 12).
