Practice - Consensus in Synchronous Systems
Practice Questions
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What does consensus mean in distributed computing?
💡 Hint: Think about the importance of agreement among distributed components.
Name one characteristic of synchronous systems.
💡 Hint: Consider how timing impacts communication and decision-making.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is consensus in distributed computing?
💡 Hint: Remember what it means for components to agree.
True or False: The FLP theorem asserts that consensus is impossible if any one process can crash in an asynchronous system.
💡 Hint: Think about the implications of process crashes on agreement.
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Challenge Problems
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Explain how combining Paxos with partial synchrony assumptions might allow for safer consensus in asynchronous systems.
💡 Hint: Relate it back to how time can make consensus decisions more reliable.
Design a hypothetical distributed system that uses Paxos for decision-making and describe how it would handle process failures.
💡 Hint: Focus on fault tolerance and how it plays a role within the proposed system.
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