Practice Network Failures (3.1.5) - Consensus, Paxos and Recovery in Clouds
Students

Academic Programs

AI-powered learning for grades 8-12, aligned with major curricula

Professional

Professional Courses

Industry-relevant training in Business, Technology, and Design

Games

Interactive Games

Fun games to boost memory, math, typing, and English skills

Network Failures

Practice - Network Failures

Learning

Practice Questions

Test your understanding with targeted questions

Question 1 Easy

What happens in a message loss scenario?

💡 Hint: Think about what can happen when a message is not delivered.

Question 2 Easy

Define message corruption in your own words.

💡 Hint: Consider what might happen to data when it is sent over a network.

4 more questions available

Interactive Quizzes

Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning

Question 1

What type of failure occurs when messages are lost in transmission?

Message Loss
Message Duplication
Message Reordering

💡 Hint: Consider what happens when a message simply disappears.

Question 2

True or False: Network partitioning can lead to independent decisions being made by different parts of the same system.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about the effects of isolation in communication.

1 more question available

Challenge Problems

Push your limits with advanced challenges

Challenge 1 Hard

Analyze a scenario in a distributed database where a network partition occurs. What steps would you take to ensure the system can recover from potential inconsistencies?

💡 Hint: Think about how to identify and resolve discrepancies caused by concurrent updates in separate segments.

Challenge 2 Hard

Propose a set of principles to design a distributed system that minimizes the impact of network failures.

💡 Hint: Consider ways to ensure messages are tracked and validated at each step to prevent loss or corruption.

Get performance evaluation

Reference links

Supplementary resources to enhance your learning experience.