Practice - Fault Tolerance
Practice Questions
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What is clock drift?
💡 Hint: Think about environmental factors affecting time keeping.
What does NTP stand for?
💡 Hint: It involves time synchronization.
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Interactive Quizzes
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Why is clock synchronization critical in distributed systems?
💡 Hint: Think about the consequences of out-of-order transactions.
True or False: Berkeley's algorithm is used for external synchronization.
💡 Hint: Consider the context in which this algorithm is typically applied.
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Challenge Problems
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Propose a solution to mitigate the effects of variable latency when using NTP in a large-scale distributed system.
💡 Hint: Consider how redundancy can improve time accuracy.
Analyze how a failure in a synchronization algorithm can lead to data corruption in a cloud platform.
💡 Hint: Reflect on scenarios where time discrepancies could cause transactions to overlap incorrectly.
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