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COMPUTER SCIENCE TRIPOS Part IB – 2014 – Paper 3 7 Further Java (ARB) Five housemates run a “status” server on their home network. The server stores the current status of each housemate as a string of text. For e

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    COMPUTER SCIENCE TRIPOS Part IB – 2012 – Paper 5 9 Concurrent and Distributed Systems (SMH) (a) Many distributed systems make use of replication. (i ) Give two advantages and one disadvantage of using replication. [3

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      COMPUTER SCIENCE TRIPOS Part IB – 2013 – Paper 5 8 Concurrent and Distributed Systems (RNW) (a) The ACID properties are often used to define transactional semantics. (i ) Define “atomicity” as used in the ACID co

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        COMPUTER SCIENCE TRIPOS Part IB – 2012 – Paper 5 7 Concurrent and Distributed Systems (SMH) (a) What is the relationship between critical sections and mutual exclusion? [2 marks]

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          COMPUTER SCIENCE TRIPOS Part IB – 2013 – Paper 6 8 Mathematical Methods for Computer Science (RJG) (a) Given a random variable, X, with mean µ, variance σ 2 and a constant c ≥ 0 prove Chebyshev’s inequality in

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            COMPUTER SCIENCE TRIPOS Part IB – 2013 – Paper 3 5 Compiler Construction (TGG) (a) When is it useful to eliminate left-recursion from a grammar and why? [2 marks]

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              COMPUTER SCIENCE TRIPOS Part IB – 2013 – Paper 5 9 Concurrent and Distributed Systems (RNW) Sun’s Network File System (NFS) is the standard distributed file system used with UNIX, and has gone through a progression

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                COMPUTER SCIENCE TRIPOS Part IB – 2014 – Paper 3 9 Software Engineering (RJA) (a) Describe the main lessons learned from the report into the collapse of the London Ambulance Service.

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                  COMPUTER SCIENCE TRIPOS Part IB – 2013 – Paper 5 1 Computer Design (SWM) (a) What is the difference between production test and functional test? [2 marks] (b) What is path sensitisation for production test? Provide a

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                    COMPUTER SCIENCE TRIPOS Part IB – 2013 – Paper 4 3 Computer Graphics and Image Processing (PR) (a) Explain the difference between an explicit formula, a closed form and a parametric form for a curve in two dimensions

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