📝 Local area networks in Distributed Systems

📖 From Operating System • 17. Distributed Systems • 12 questions available

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🔄 Last updated: 2026-07-27

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Q1. What is process migration?

🔹 A. The transfer of a complete file from one server to another

🔹 B. The relocation of a running process or its parts to a different node in a network

🔹 C. The duplication of a database across multiple sites

🔹 D. The shutdown of a process after completion

💡 Difficulty: easy | ✅ Correct: B

Q2. How does a hardware preference influence the decision to migrate a process?

🔹 A. Processes are always executed where they originated

🔹 B. Migration is chosen only when software licenses are unavailable

🔹 C. The process is moved to a node with specialized hardware that can execute it more efficiently

🔹 D. Hardware preference never affects migration decisions

💡 Difficulty: medium | ✅ Correct: C

Q3. When data volume is high, why might moving the process rather than the data be advantageous?

🔹 A. Moving data is always faster than moving a process

🔹 B. Process migration eliminates the need to transfer large datasets across the network, reducing bandwidth usage

🔹 C. Transferring data improves security more than moving processes

🔹 D. Process migration increases network latency more than data transfer

💡 Difficulty: hard | ✅ Correct: C

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