Practice - Failures & Recovery Approaches in Distributed Systems
Practice Questions
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Define crash failures in the context of distributed systems.
💡 Hint: Think about what happens to a stopped process.
What is the domino effect in rollback recovery?
💡 Hint: Consider what happens when one process rolls back.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What type of failure occurs when a process halts execution?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens when a process simply stops responding.
True or False: Timing failures and omission failures are the same.
💡 Hint: Consider what each type refers to specifically.
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Challenge Problems
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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.
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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