Q. Describe the general steps for Remote Procedure Calls to
occur.

Q. What kind of services does X.500 provide?

Q. What characteristics should a process possess to be a 
good candidate for process migration?

Q. What are the advantages of TCP over UDP?  ... of UDP over
TCP?

Q. What is the ontology problem in agent systems, and why is
it hard to solve?

Q. Describe how the Bully Algorithm works for distributed
coordinator election.

Q. What advantage does a 2-tiered distributed system have
over a 3-tiered system, and vice versa?

Q. What are the performance advantages of kernel-level
threads over user-level threads?

Q. What resources does a Quality of Service system likely
have control over?

Q. Describe the end-to-end argument.  Give an example of its
use.

Q. In general, describe the differences between a Distributed Operating
System, a Network Operating System, and a Middleware System.

Q. What is the purpose of message queueing systems?

Q. What are Lamport time stamps used for?

Q. Explain the difference between strict consistency and sequential
consistency.