Practice - Malicious or Faulty Clocks
Practice Questions
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Define clock skew.
💡 Hint: Think about what happens when two clocks show different times at the same moment.
What is external synchronization?
💡 Hint: Consider the role of global time references.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is clock skew?
💡 Hint: Think about how clocks appear differently at a moment.
True or False: Physical clock drift can cause significant operational failures in distributed systems.
💡 Hint: Consider how time variations could affect transactions.
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Challenge Problems
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Discuss the potential consequences of clock drift in a large-scale distributed system, including both immediate and long-term impacts.
💡 Hint: Consider various scenarios where transactional integrity is critical.
Design a simple algorithm to detect and filter out faulty clocks in a distributed network. Describe how it would mitigate the effects of malicious clock input.
💡 Hint: Think about how you can leverage data from multiple sources to achieve reliability.
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