Topics for Distributed Computing

Comprehensive Exam

Posted: September 2009

• Topics from Distributed Systems, Concepts and Design, Coulouris et al., 2005
  
  
  1. Characterization of Distributed Systems
     
  2. Distributed System Models
     
  3. Networking Basics
     
  4. Interprocess Communication
     
  5. Distributed Objects and Remote Invocations
     
  6. Security of Distributed Systems
     
  7. Name Services
     
  8. Web Services / REST
     
  9. CORBA
     
  10. Time and global states
      
  11. Coordination and agreement
      
  12. Transaction and Concurrency Control
      
  13. Distributed Transactions
      
  14. Replication