Distributed systems-chapter 1

1. How does the hardware or software components located at networked computers communicate and coordinate their actions in a distributed system?

• Using a global clock

• Passing messages

-------------------- is used to protect an intranet by preventing unauthorized messages from leaving or entering the network.

-------------------- is a running program on a networked computer that accepts requests from programs running on other computers to perform a service and responds appropriately.

RMI stands for?

• a) Remote Mail Invocation

• b) Remote Message Invocation

• c) Remaining Method Invocation

• d) Remote Method Invocation

The processes that send requests are called ---------

--------------- is a software layer that provides a programming abstraction as well as masking the heterogeneity of the underlying networks, hardware, operating systems and programming languages

The main motivation for constructing distributed systems is -------------