Computer ARCH Quiz

Centralizing the services at the server makes it

• delete large number of clients

• enjoys the large number of clients

• overload under large number of clients

Administrative scalability means

• Number of administrative domains

• Number of users and/or processes

• Maximum distance between nodes

Finding a specific file in Kazaa requires

• Communicating server directory

• Communicating all peers

• Communicating adjacent peers

• Communicating super nodes directory

The capability of a system to adapt the increased service load is called

• capacity

• interoperability

• tolerance

• scalability

When more than one peer responds to a searching node with more than one file

• It can select either of them

• It discards both of them

• It contacts the originating peer

Logically tightly coupled systems are characterized by

• Working on specific task

• Remotely cooperate

• Sharing specific place

Delay of communication in multiprocessor system is ___ than multicomputer system

• Less

• Bigger

• More

Example of non-centralized P2P systems

• Fourier

• Gnutella

• Napster

Example of centralized P2P systems

• Napster

• Gnutella

• Fourier

In multicomputer system, each node has its own

• local memory

• clock

• both local memory and clock

• none of the mentioned