UB CSE 486 - Distributed Systems -
Quiz 1 Study Set verified to pass
2025/2026
Distributed system - correct answer ✔a network of autonomous computers cooperating to accomplish
a task
How do hardware and software components of a distributed system coordinate? - correct answer
✔They share resources such as data, computation, computer cycles, bandwidth storage
What are some examples of a distributed system? - correct answer ✔Internet, Hadoop, Kafka, the
cloud, intranet
What is a protocol - correct answer ✔a set of rules that end points in a telecommunication system
when exchanging information.
IP - correct answer ✔Internet protocol defines an unreliable packet transfer protocol
TCP - correct answer ✔Transmission Control Protocol builds upon IP to define a reliable data delivery
protocol.
LDAP - correct answer ✔Builds on TCP to define a query-response protocol for querying the state of a
remote database
HTTP - correct answer ✔builds on TCP to facilitate hyper-text document exchange
HTTPS - correct answer ✔Security layer over HTTP
, Bitcoin/Etherum have their own - correct answer ✔protocols. Ethereum's is called Ethereum protocol
Service - correct answer ✔a network-enabled entity that provides a specific capability
Service = - correct answer ✔Protocol + Behavior
Examples of services - correct answer ✔ability to move files, create processes, verify access rights
SFTP server/service - correct answer ✔Secure File Transfer Protocol and supports remote read and
write access to a collection of files
API - correct answer ✔Application Program Interface defines a standard interface for invoking a
specified set of functionality.
Examples of API - correct answer ✔Twitter API, Facebook API that allow third party developers to
create applications based on the services (functions) exposed on certain endpoints (ports)
SDK - correct answer ✔Software Development Kit denotes a set of code designed to be linked with, and
invoked from within, an application program to provide specified functionality. Is a set of tools that
facilitates application development.
An SDK typically - correct answer ✔implements an API
Internet - correct answer ✔A large distributed system, of interconnections of a collection of
heterogeneous networks of computers
Internet Protocols - correct answer ✔IP, TCP, HTTP
Quiz 1 Study Set verified to pass
2025/2026
Distributed system - correct answer ✔a network of autonomous computers cooperating to accomplish
a task
How do hardware and software components of a distributed system coordinate? - correct answer
✔They share resources such as data, computation, computer cycles, bandwidth storage
What are some examples of a distributed system? - correct answer ✔Internet, Hadoop, Kafka, the
cloud, intranet
What is a protocol - correct answer ✔a set of rules that end points in a telecommunication system
when exchanging information.
IP - correct answer ✔Internet protocol defines an unreliable packet transfer protocol
TCP - correct answer ✔Transmission Control Protocol builds upon IP to define a reliable data delivery
protocol.
LDAP - correct answer ✔Builds on TCP to define a query-response protocol for querying the state of a
remote database
HTTP - correct answer ✔builds on TCP to facilitate hyper-text document exchange
HTTPS - correct answer ✔Security layer over HTTP
, Bitcoin/Etherum have their own - correct answer ✔protocols. Ethereum's is called Ethereum protocol
Service - correct answer ✔a network-enabled entity that provides a specific capability
Service = - correct answer ✔Protocol + Behavior
Examples of services - correct answer ✔ability to move files, create processes, verify access rights
SFTP server/service - correct answer ✔Secure File Transfer Protocol and supports remote read and
write access to a collection of files
API - correct answer ✔Application Program Interface defines a standard interface for invoking a
specified set of functionality.
Examples of API - correct answer ✔Twitter API, Facebook API that allow third party developers to
create applications based on the services (functions) exposed on certain endpoints (ports)
SDK - correct answer ✔Software Development Kit denotes a set of code designed to be linked with, and
invoked from within, an application program to provide specified functionality. Is a set of tools that
facilitates application development.
An SDK typically - correct answer ✔implements an API
Internet - correct answer ✔A large distributed system, of interconnections of a collection of
heterogeneous networks of computers
Internet Protocols - correct answer ✔IP, TCP, HTTP
