Practice Failures & Recovery Approaches In Distributed Systems (3) - Consensus, Paxos and Recovery in Clouds
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Failures & Recovery Approaches in Distributed Systems

Practice - Failures & Recovery Approaches in Distributed Systems

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

Define crash failures in the context of distributed systems.

💡 Hint: Think about what happens to a stopped process.

Question 2 Easy

What is the domino effect in rollback recovery?

💡 Hint: Consider what happens when one process rolls back.

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Question 1

What type of failure occurs when a process halts execution?

Crash Failure
Omission Failure
Timing Failure

💡 Hint: Think about what happens when a process simply stops responding.

Question 2

True or False: Timing failures and omission failures are the same.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider what each type refers to specifically.

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Challenge 1 Hard

You are designing a distributed application. Describe how you would implement recovery strategies for various failure types and their impact on application performance.

💡 Hint: Consider how each recovery approach affects performance.

Challenge 2 Hard

Discuss how to approach a situation where arbitrary failures threaten the consistency of your distributed system.

💡 Hint: Reflect on techniques that maintain system robustness against malicious actions.

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