1. What are the advantages of indirect forms of communication over direct forms?
2. In what ways/uses is remote invocation more advantageous than indirect forms of communication.
3. Explain how successive packets transmitted in a packet switched network can arrive out of order?
4. What 5 distinctions differentiate routing overlays over IP in peer to peer networks?
5. Discuss the role of middleware in tiered architectures.
6. Discuss the importance of network transparency as it relates to distributed systems.
7. Describe the issues components addressed as a result of the implementation distributed objects.
8. Explain the difference between a private and public cloud solution.
9. Describe the issues of data representation arising from interprocess communication on disparate platforms.