In __________ communication, messages are stored in a buffer before being received by the receiver.

• A) synchronous
• B) unbuffered
• C) buffered
• D) asynchronous

In _________ communication, the sender sends a message to the receiver and continues with its execution without waiting for a response.

• A) buffered
• B) unbuffered
• C) synchronous
• D) asynchronous

Tasks can be divided into _______ broad categories in terms their interdependences.

• A) five
• B) four
• C) two
• D) three

__________ in distributed computing refers to the process of transferring software code from one computer or node in a network to another.

• A) Deadlock
• B) Concurrency
• C) Scalability
• D) Code migration

____________is a contract between processes and the data store that says that if processes agree to obey certain rules, the store promises to work correctly.

• A) Sequential model
• B) Client centric consistency model
• C) Incremental model
• D) Data consistency model

The term _________ is used to refer to program code that can be transferred from one computer to another and run at the destination.

• A) object code
• B) mobile code
• C) source code
• D) pseudo code

__________ connects nodes across large geographic area.

• A) WAN
• B) LAN
• C) CAN
• D) MAN

The _________ is the conventional multicore processor with limited parallelism to exploit.

• A) Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
• B) Gateway Processing Unit (GPU)
• C) Central Processing Unit (CPU)
• D) Command Processing Unit (CPU)

Thread is a basic unit of ________ utilization.

• A) Storage
• B) Memory
• C) CPU
• D) bandwidth

Replication and caching for performance are widely applied as __________ techniques.

• A) scaling
• B) deadlock
• C) context switching
• D) concurrency

________ is NVIDIA’s general purpose parallel computing architecture designed for calculation-intensive computation on GPU hardware.

• A) CAD
• B) SoC
• C) CUDA
• D) DEC

Which of the following has emerged as the standard threads API, supported by most vendors?

• A) POSIX threads
• B) Java threads
• C) Solaris threads
• D) NT threads

__________ is a non-blocking network allowing multiple input output connection pattern to be achieved simultaneously.

• A) Cross Bar
• B) Mesh
• C) Tree
• D) Bus

The finer decomposition of tasks always results in small time.

• A) False
• B) True
• C)
• D)

The _________ of a network with n nodes is the length of the maximum shortest path between any two nodes in the network.

• A) latency
• B) bandwidth
• C) diameter
• D) bisection

Which of the following is true regarding thread accept?

• A) Can be scheduled to run on a CPU as an independent unit
• B) Lightweight process
• C) Executes within the address space of a process
• D) Can not run on CPU as independent unit

__________ is the process by which data residing on a physical/virtual servers or cloud instance is continuously copied to a secondary server(s) or cloud instance.

• A) Data replication
• B) Deadlock
• C) Scalability
• D) Concurrency

There are _________ commonly used decomposition techniques.

• A) Three
• B) Five
• C) Seven
• D) Four

__________ is a specification for the developers and users of message passing libraries.

• A) Graphics Processing Interfacet (GPI)
• B) Message Passing Unit (MPU)
• C) Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
• D) Message Passing Interface (MPI)

_________ is process to forward packets coming in from one port to a port leading towards the destination.

• A) Latency
• B) Context switching
• C) Temporal locality
• D) Switching