NIELIT 2016 DEC Scientist B (CS) - Section B: 51

Question

A process that is based on IPC mechanism which executes on different systems and can communicate with other processes using message based communication is called _______.

• A. Local Procedure Call
• B. Remote Procedure Call
• C. Inter Process Communication
• D. Remote Machine Invocation

Answer 1

(B) RPC  Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a powerful technique for constructing distributed, client-server based applications. It is based on extending the conventional local procedure calling so that the called procedure need not exist in the same address space as the calling procedure. The two processes may be on the same system, or they may be on different systems with a network connecting them