Client Server Architecture MSC IT SEM-4 / MSC TT SEM-3 Question Bank

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UNIT-1

1.The term client/server was first used in the 1980 in reference to personal computers (PC) on a ___.

Ans.Network

2.The ___ software architecture is a versatile, message-based and modular infrastructure that is
intended to improve usability, flexibility, interoperability and scalability as compared to centralized,
mainframe, time sharing computing.

Ans.Client/Server

3.A ___ machine can be both a client and server depending on the software configuration.

Ans.Single

4.___refers to computing technologies in which the hardware and software components.

Ans.Client Server.

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5.Client/Server software architectures can be classified into __ categories.

6.With mainframe software architectures all intelligence is within the ____ computer.

Ans.Central host

7.Mainframe software architectures are not tied to a ___ platform.

Ans.Hardware

8.The original PC Networks are based on the ___ architecture, where the server downloads files
from the shared location to the desktop environment.

Ans.file sharing

9.Using a relational database management system, user queries could be answered ___.

Ans.Directly

10.The ___ architecture reduced network traffic by providing a query response rather than total file
transfer.

Ans.Client/Server

11.RPC stands for ___.

Ans.Remote Procedure Calls

12.___ statements are typically used to communicate between the client and server.

Ans. Structured Query Language (SQL)

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13. CORBA stands for ___.

Ans. Common object request broker architecture

14.OSF stands for ____.

Ans.Open System Foundation

15.Distributed computing environment is developed and maintained by the ___.

Ans.Open System Foundation

16. The ___ is an integrated system services they provide an integrated distributed environment
which incorporates technology from industry.

Ans.Distributed computing environment

17.The DCE is a set of integrated system services they provide an inter operable and flexible
distributed environment with the primary goal of solving ___ problems in heterogeneous,
networked environments.

Ans.interoperability

18.___ provides a reference implementation (source code) on which all DCE products are based.

Ans.Open System Foundation

19.The ___ is intended to form a comprehensive software platform on which distributed

applications can be built, executed and maintained.

Ans. OSF DCE

20. ___ service, which provides a simple, portable, programming model for building concurrent
applications.

Ans. Thread

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11.__ service, which provides the network wit authentication, authorization and user account
management services to maintain the integrity, privac and authenticity of the distributed system.

Ans. Security

22.___ provides and users with capabilities built upon the fundamental distributed services.

Ans. Data-sharing services

23. ___ which interoperates with the network file system to provide a high-performance, scalable
and secure files access system.

Ans. Distributed file system

24. Diskless support, which allows low-cst workstation to use disks on servers, possibily reducing the
need/cost for local disks and provides performance enchancements to ___.

Ans. Network overhead

25. The DCE support International open systems Interconnection (OSI) standards, which are critical
to ___ interconnectivity.

Ans. Global

26. ACSE stands for ___.

Ans. Association control service element

27. The ___ supports Internet standards such as the TCP/IP transport and network protocols, as well
as the Domain Name system and Network Time protocol provided by the Internet.

Ans.DCE

28. The DCE is written in standard C and uses standard operating system service interfaces like ___
and ___.

Ans. POSIX and X/OPEN

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29.DEC works internally with he ___ model and is well-suited for development of applications that
are structured according to this model.

Ans. Client/Server

30. For DCE ___ communication is optimized and relatively secure and transparent.

Ans. intra-cell

31.In 2-tier client server architecture, __ is typically used to communicate between the client and
server.

Ans.RPC

32.The ___ is likely to have support for stored procedures and triggers.

Ans.Server

33. The 2-tiered client/server architecture has proven to be very effective in solving ___ problems.

Ans.Workgroup

34. The two tier design allocates the user system interface exclusively to the ___.

Ans.Client

35. The __ requires minimal operator intervention and is frequently used in non-computer, non-time
critical information processing systems.

Ans.Two-tier architecture

36. The two tier design will scale-up to service __ users on a network.

Ans.100

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37. The two-tier architecture is not effective in running __ programs.

Ans. batch

38. The ___ provides process management where business logic and rules are executed and can
accommodate hundreds of users by providing functions such as queuing, application execution and
database staging.

Ans. Middle tier

39. The ___ tier control transactions and asynchronous queuing to ensure reliable completion of
transactions.

Ans. Middle process management

40. The middle tier manages distributed database integrity by the ___ commit process.

Ans. two phase

UNIT-2

1.____ is usually a concern only in an environment that contains dissimilar fundamental hardware or
software services (that is, a heterogeneous environment).

Ans. Interoperability

2. One of the most widely used models in the development of distributed applications is the ___
model.

Ans. Client/Server

3. As in a stand-alone system, the ability to retrieve information associated with a name (object) is a
___ of the distributed system.

Ans. Primary function

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4. The user community prefers to support ___ (that is, standard interfaces and protocols) as a means
of increasing the opportunity to share information and services.

Ans. Open System

5. In the stand-alone environment, the standard means for execution spaces to exchange data is
through ___.

Ans. Main memory

6. In the distributed environment, the standard data-exchange mechanism is the ___.

Ans. Network

7. In the stand-alone environment, there are at least ___ types of event ordering.

Ans. two

8. ____ is used an open process to design the architectural framework as part of its distributed
computing environment request for technology effort.

Ans. Open software foundation

9. Distributed file system technology provides the ability to access and store data at ___ locations.

Ans. Remote

10. DCE DFS uses a set of tokens to keep track of ___ information.

Ans. cached

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UNIT-3

01.The ___ language and platform provide a base for distributed computing that changes the
approach to designing distributed systems.

Ans.Java

02.A ___ listener is an object that is interested in the occurrence of some kinds of events in some
other object.

Ans.remote event

03.A ____ is an object is an object that is passed fro an event generator to a remote event listener to
indicate that an event of a particular kind has occured.

Ans. remote event

04.An event is something that happen in an object, corresponding to some change in the abstract
state of the ____.

Ans.Object

05.A ___ application has a different set of characteristics and requirements that a single-address
space event application.

Ans.distributed event

06.The distributed event interface allows reliable event-based programming in ____.

Ans.distributed systems

07.___ allows objects to identify state changes that might be of interest to other objects in a
distributed application.

Ans.Events

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08.Event-based programming is common in a single address space, and is often used for interactive
applications that react to ___ events.

Ans.user-generated

09.The ___ interface is not meant to replace full transaction-processing applications.

Ans.transaction

10.____ are a fundamental operation for many kinds of computing.

Ans.Transactions

UNIT-4

01.Microsoft Distributed COM (DCOM) extends the component object model (COM) to support
communication among objects on different computers - on a LAN, a WAN or even the ___.

Ans.Internet

02.____ are much more scalable than their monolithic counterparts.

Ans.Distributed applications

03.____ is an extension of the Component Object Model (COM).

Ans.DCOM

04.COM defines how components and their clients ___.

Ans.interact

05.A reference implementation of COM and DCOM in ___ form will be available for licensing through
the Open Group in 1997.

Ans.source-code

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06.The COM run-time provides ____ services to clients and components and uses RPC and the
security provider to generate standard network packets than conform to the DCOM ___ standard.

Ans. object-oriented, write-protocol

07.One of the most basic requirements of a distributed system is the ability to create ___.

Ans.Components

08.GUIDs stands for ____.

Ans.Globally Unique Identifiers

09.The ____ look up the appropriate binary (dynamic-link library or executable) in the system
registry , create the object and return an interface pointer to the caller.

Ans.COM libraries

10.For DCOM, the object creation mechanism in the COM libraries is enhanced to allow object
creation on other ___.

Ans. machines

UNIT-5

01.CORBA stands for ____.

Ans.Common Object Request Broker Architecture

02.CORBA technology is the open standard for ____ computing.

Ans.heterogeneous

03.IIOP stands for ____.

Ans.Internet Inter-ORB Protocol

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04. The Java platform provides a _____ object infrastructure that works on every major operating
system.

Ans.portable

05.CORBA provides the ____ transparency, Java provides the ___ transparency.

Ans.network, implementation

06.ORBD stands for ___.

Ans. Object Request Broker Daemon

07.The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is an emerging open distributed object
computing infrastructure being standardized by the ____.

Ans.Object Management Group (OMG)

08.___ are domain-independent interfaces that are ued by many distributed object programs.

Ans.Object Services

09.DDCF stands for ____.

Ans.Distributed Document Component Facility

10.Object is CORBA programming entity that consists of an identity, an interface and an

implementation, which is known as a ___.

Ans.Servant

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