Midterm Exam

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Mid-term Exam

• CSE486/586
• Distributed Systems

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Topics

• Distributed Systems(DS) Chapter 1- 7 except ch.6
• Characterization of and challenges in DS Ch.1
• System models Ch.2
• IP routing Ch.3
• Inter-process communication Ch.4 (IP multicast,
  group communication, etc.)
• Distributed Object and remote Invocations (RMI
  and web services) Ch.5
• Security CA, Needham-Schroder, Kerberos Ch.7

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Exam Format

• You may bring 2 sheets of any information you
  like.
• No definitions
• Be precise and use code samples where ever
  needed.
• 5 questions with subsections
• Total points will be scaled down to 100 points.

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Sample Topics for Questions

• Project 1 Webservices/ RMI
• Distributed object model
• Distributed programming (as in IP routing)
• Networking Bluetooth
• Security Needham-Schroder, Kerberos,
  Certification systems.

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Time and Date

• March24, Monday from 9.00-9.50pm.
• Place 210 NSC

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Theme

• Distributed data and distributed algorithms
• Examples Distributed routing tables, distributed
  garbage collection