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1.6.1 - The 'Happens-Before' Relation (→)

Learning

Practice Questions

Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.

Question 1

Easy

Define the happens-before relation in your own words.

💡 Hint: Think about how events interact in a process.

Question 2

Easy

What does it mean for two events to be concurrent?

💡 Hint: Consider processes that do not interfere with each other's operations.

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Interactive Quizzes

Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.

Question 1

What does the happens-before relation signify?

  • Causal order of events
  • Concurrency
  • Independence of events

💡 Hint: Think about how events relate to one another.

Question 2

If event A happens before event B, can we say B happens before A?

  • True
  • False

💡 Hint: Consider the nature of causation.

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Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

Given three events A, B, and C, describe a situation that illustrates that A → B, B → C, and consequently A → C.

💡 Hint: Think about dependencies in a typical business process.

Question 2

Explain how a distributed system might handle a situation where two processes try to update a shared resource simultaneously without any synchronization.

💡 Hint: Find a way to prevent problems arising from concurrency.

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