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Assignments for Client Server Concepts

June 2004

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Date Author(s) Reviewer(s) Description
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1.0 Jun 2004 Alok Tiwari, Suresh J. K., Ramesh
Anubhav Pradhan Babu S.

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Contents

Assignment Day 1............................................................................................................... 1

Assignment Day 2............................................................................................................... 2

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Assignment Day 1
1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a Host Centric approach?
(Approx time : 10 min)
2. Single user system computing is an approach that designs an application in
such a way that all the applications and data reside on a single personal
computer dedicated to the use of a single person. Comment?
(Approx time: 10 min)
3. What are the drawbacks of single tier layering approach?
(Approx time: 5 min)
4. What are the key salient features of three tier architecture?
(Approx time: 5 min)
5. What is a server processes?
(Approx time: 5 min)
6. Explain the concept of a transaction server?
(Approx time: 5 min)
7. Give two key points for distributed computing?
(Approx time: 5 min)
8. Explain the concept of upsizing, downsizing and rightsizing?
(Approx time: 12 min)

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Assignment Day 2
1. Explain how Middle Ware acts as glue between client and server?
(Approx time: 10 min)
2. What are various types of Middleware?
(Approx time: 10 min)
3. Explain Open database Connectivity (ODBC) in brief?
(Approx time: 5 min)
4. Explain the concept of Remote procedure call?
5. What do you understand by OLE?
6. Explain the concept of Grid computing w.r.t latest trends in CS computing?

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