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Find Every Mail Server Connected to the Internet
If you were asked to find every mail server connected to the Internet, what would you do? What criteria would you use to determine if your solution is the best? What process would you follow? Make any assumptions you need to. What are the critical assumptions?
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Network Auditing
What is the Network Auditing? and it does and wht type of tools are used in this process.
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Cable length requirement
Why do we have a minimum and maximum cable length requirement?
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What are the five major technologies that can be used to create Client/Server applications?
Database ServersTP MonitorsGroupwareDistributed ObjectsIntranets.
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What is ACID property?
ACID is a term coined by Andrew Reuter in 1983, which stands for Atomicity, Consistence, Isolation and Durability.
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What is meant by Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP)?
It imposses hierarchy and a division of labour among processors. Only one designated processor, the master, controls (in a tightly coupled arrangement) slave processors dedicated to specific functions.
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What are Stored procedures?
A stored procedure ia s named collection of SQL statements and procedural logic that is compiled, verified and stored in a server database. It is typically treated like any other database object. Stored procedures accept input parameters so that a single procedure can be used over the network by multiple clients using different input data. A single remote message triggers the execution of a collection...
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What is a Transaction server?
With a transaction server, the client invokes remote procedures that reside on the server with an SQL database engine. These remote procedures on the server execute a group of SQL statements. The network exchange consists of a single request/reply message. The SQL statements either all succeed or fail as a unit.
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What is an Object server?
With an object server, the Client/Server application is written as a set of communicating objects. Client object communicate with server objects using an Object Request Broker (ORB). The client invokes a method on a remote object. The ORB locates an instance of that object server class, invokes the requested method and returns the results to the client object. Server objects must provide support for...
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What are called Fat clients and Fat servers?
If the bulk of the application runs on the Client side, then it is Fat clients. It is used for decision support and personal software.If the bulk of the application runs on the Server side, then it is Fat servers. It tries to minimize network interchanges by creating more abstract levels of services.
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What are General Middleware?
It includes the communication stacks, distributed directories, authentication services, network time, RPC, Queuing services along with the network OS extensions such as the distributed file and print services.
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What are Service-specific middleware?
It is needed to accomplish a particular Client/Server type of services which includes:Database specific middlewareOLTP specific middlewareGroupware specific middlewareObject specific middlewareInternet specific middleware andSystem management specific middleware.
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Explain the building blocks of Client/Server?
The client side building block runs the client side of the application.The server side building block runs the server side of the application.The middleware buliding block runs on both the client and server sides of an application. It is broken into three categoriesTransport stackNetwork OSService-specific middleware.
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What are the functions of the typical server program?
It waits for client-initiated requests.Executes many requests at the same time.Takes care of VIP clients first.Initiates and runs background task activity.Keeps running.Grown bigger and faster.
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What are the services provided by the Operating System?
Base services - It is a part of the standard OSExtended services - These are add-on modular software components that are layered on top of base service
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What are all the Base services provided by the OS?
Task preemptionTask prioritySemaphoresInterprocess communications (IPC)Local/Remote Interprocess communicationThreadsIntertask protectionMultiuser High performance file systemEfficient memory management and Dynamically linked Run-time extensions
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What are all the Extended services provided by the OS?
Ubiquitous communicationsNetwork OS extensionBinary large objects (BLOBs)Global directories and Network yellow pagesAuthentication and Authorization servicesSystem managementNetwork timeDatabase and transaction servicesInternet servicesObject- oriented services
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What are Super servers?
These are fully-loaded machines which includes multiprocessors, high-speed disk arrays for intervive I/O and fault tolerant features. What are the two forms of Multi-processing
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What is meant by Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP)?
It treats all processors as equal. Any processor can do the work of any other processor. Applications are divided into threads that can run concurrently on any available processor. Any processor in the pool can run the OS kernel and execute user-written threads.
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