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📝 Recovery from failure in Distributed Systems

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🔄 Last updated: 2026-07-27

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Q1. A server process crashes and restarts, needing to retransmit lost data. Which layer of the TCP/IP model is primarily responsible for detecting the loss and initiating retransmission?

🔹 A. Application layer
🔹 B. Transport layer
🔹 C. Network layer
🔹 D. Data-link layer

💡 Difficulty: easy | ✅ Correct: B

Q2. In a distributed file system, a client receives a partial file after a network interruption. Which TCP mechanism allows the client to resume the transfer without starting over?

🔹 A. TCP sequence numbers
🔹 B. UDP checksum
🔹 C. IP fragmentation
🔹 D. Application-level checkpointing

💡 Difficulty: medium | ✅ Correct: A

Q3. In which year was the OSI reference model first published?

🔹 A. 1978
🔹 B. 1980
🔹 C. 1984
🔹 D. 1990

💡 Difficulty: hard | ✅ Correct: A

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