DISTRIBUTED/MOBILE OS

Question 1

A distributed computation is

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one that is carried out on more than one machine in a cooperative manner. A group of linked computers working cooperatively on tasks, referred to as a distributed system, requires a distributed operating system to manage the distributed resources.

Question 2

Client/server computing is

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typically distributed computing.

Question 3

Each server in the client/server environment provides a

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set of shared services to the clients.

Question 4

The third essential ingredient of the client-server environment is

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the network

Question 5

Within a distributed system, there may be a number of different types of client platforms and operating systems and a number of different types of server platforms in a single environment.

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. As long as a particular client and server share the same communications protocols and support the same applications, these lower-level differences are irrelevant.

Question 6

A mobile operating system is

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is an operating system that is specifically designed to run on mobile devices such as mobile phones/smartphones and tablet computers.

Question 7

The mobile OS is the

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software platform on top of which other programs, called application programs, can run on mobile devices.