Practice Key Challenges: The Adversaries Of Synchronized Time (1.2) - Classical Distributed Algorithms and the Industry Systems
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Key Challenges: The Adversaries of Synchronized Time

Practice - Key Challenges: The Adversaries of Synchronized Time

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is clock drift?

💡 Hint: Think about environmental factors affecting clock performance.

Question 2 Easy

Define fault tolerance.

💡 Hint: This relates to how systems handle problems and continue operating.

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Question 1

What is clock drift?

The difference between two clocks at a given moment
The rate of deviation of a clock from real time
The performance of clocks over time

💡 Hint: Consider what happens to clock accuracy over time.

Question 2

True or False: Network latency can remain constant in a distributed system.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about what happens during busy network times.

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

Analyze the effects of having unsynchronized clocks in a distributed database update scenario.

💡 Hint: Imagine multiple servers trying to update the same records simultaneously.

Challenge 2 Hard

Propose a synchronization strategy for a service with varying loads during peak times, considering fault tolerance.

💡 Hint: Think about what protocols would best handle high traffic and faults simultaneously.

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