Day 14 Check Coordination and Configuration

Check yourself

Ten questions on the two designs from Day 14, the lock manager and the job scheduler. Both are infrastructure other systems depend on, and both choose a direction to fail in. They choose opposite directions, and the last questions are about why each one is right for its job.

You will be asked 10 questions drawn from a larger bank, so a second attempt will not be the same paper. Answer from what the designs actually said, not from what sounds sensible in general.