Distributed Systems

Module code: CS7NS6 · Semester: Semester 2

Questions by Year

0 of 2 done · tick papers and add notes as you go

• 2018/19
• 2017/18

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Topics

• Distributed system characteristics and challenges LO1
• Architectural models and paradigms LO2
• Consistency, reliability and availability trade-offs LO4
• Seminal distributed systems LO2, LO5
• Designing a large distributed application LO3

Learning outcomes (exam covers LO1–5)

1. Describe distributed systems and the issues they raise for architects
2. Evaluate architectural models for large-scale distributed systems
3. Design, build and test distributed systems
4. Reason about trade-offs between scalability, performance, consistency, reliability and availability
5. Use documentation and references

Summarised from the module descriptor, checked November 2026.