17. Distributed Systems - Operating System

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Q1. A small business has a single laser printer at site B, but employees at site A need to print documents. Which advantage of a distributed system enables this remote printing capability?

🔹 A. Resource sharing

🔹 B. Computation speedup

🔹 C. Reliability

🔹 D. Communication

💡 Difficulty: easy | ✅ Correct: A

Q2. Why does computation speedup occur when tasks are executed across multiple nodes in a distributed system?

🔹 A. Centralized processing

🔹 B. Parallel execution of tasks across nodes

🔹 C. Reduced network traffic

🔹 D. Increased storage capacity

💡 Difficulty: medium | ✅ Correct: B

Q3. A company’s database is hosted at site A, while sites B and C run application and backup servers respectively. If site A fails, which advantage and mechanism keep the service running?

🔹 A. Reliability with replication

🔹 B. Computation speedup with load balancing

🔹 C. Resource sharing with remote printing

🔹 D. Communication with message passing

💡 Difficulty: hard | ✅ Correct: A

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