Exam #1 Topics

Monday, Sep 26 10:00-10:50

The exam will be primarily short to medium answer type questions with some terminology. All test questions are derived from these slides:

• Distributed Systems Introduction pages 4, 8 (key terms)
• Distributed Systems Architectural Models pages 3 (challenges); pages 6, 7 (middleware); page 14 (performance)
• Distributed Systems Fundamental Models pages 3, 4, 5 and 13
• Interprocess Communication pages 19 through 23 (TCP, UDP)
• Remote Procedure Calls pages 6 through 15 -- conceptual understanding including use of stubs
• Concurrency Introduction pages 7 through 18
• Java Thread Review page 5 -- understand the thread State Transition Diagram
• POJC -- Plain Old Java Concurrency pages 2 through 6
• Deadlock -- all pages