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Fault Tolerance, Parallel and Distributed Computing

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Question 1
1.

What is the number assigned to devices on the internet?

Question 2
2.

Draw out a rough sketch of Ring network topology on the paper on desk, and show it to me !

Question 3
3.

Draw out a rough sketch of Bus network topology on the paper on desk, and show it to me !

Question 4
4.

Draw out a rough sketch of Star network topology on the paper on desk, and show it to me !

Question 5
5.

Which of the following best describes a challenge involved in using parallel computing?

Question 6
6.

Which of the following best describes the ability of parallel computing solutions to improve efficiency?

Question 7
7.

I have a list below containing ages of students, and I want to calculate the average ages of students in the list. (5 points)

ages = [24, 12, 23, 19, 27, 30, 11, ...]

Explain how parallel computing an be used.
Break the program into 3 major tasks
Which of this tasks are independent of any other task and which is dependent?

Question 8
8.

If a task takes 40 seconds to complete sequentially and 10 seconds to complete in parallel, what is the speedup?

Question 9
9.

Which factor limits the maximum speedup of a parallel algorithm?

Question 10
10.

If an algorithm achieves a speedup of 8 on 16 processors, what is a possible reason why it is not achieving perfect scaling?

Question 11
11.

If a task takes 100 seconds sequentially and 25 seconds in parallel, what is the speedup?

Question 12
12.

What is the primary benefit of parallel computing?

Question 13
13.

What do you understand by the word domain name.

Question 14
14.

What is the difference between routing and path?

Be very detailed with your explanation

Question 15
15.

What is the main advantage of distributed computing?

Question 16
16.

Which of the following is an example of distributed computing?

Question 17
17.

How does distributed computing help solve problems that a single computer cannot?

Question 18
18.

What is a potential challenge of distributed computing?

Question 19
19.

A large dataset is too big to store on a single computer. How can distributed computing help?

Question 20
20.

Which of the following technologies relies on distributed computing?

Question 21
21.

Why is the Internet considered fault-tolerant?

Question 22
22.

Why do you think the internet is sometimes described as a redundant system?

Question 23
23.

What is the world wide web?

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Question 24
24.

Is this network fault tolerant or not?

Expalin your reasons for answer above!

Question 25
25.

Why is the internet routing usually dynamic?

Question 26
26.

Which of the following best describes the fault tolerance of the Internet?

Question 27
27.

What is the primary purpose of redundancy in network design?

Question 28
28.

How does packet switching contribute to fault tolerance?

Question 29
29.

Which Internet protocol helps make the network fault-tolerant by ensuring packets reach their destination even if some routes fail?

Question 30
30.

What the full meaning of TCP, IP, HTTP (3 points )

Question 31
31.

Differentiate between UDP and TCP

Question 32
32.

A scientific research team needs to process huge amounts of genetic data. Why might they use distributed computing?