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You are given two clocks: one is slower than the perfect clock (UTC) by a drift rate of p, while the other one is faster than the perfect clock by a drift rate of q. How often should the clocks be synchronized to keep them within ∆t of one another?

Which one is a key characteristic of publish-subscribe system?

You want a system to have at least 99.5% reliability.  The system is to be implemented using replicated instances of a component, but a single instance of that component has only 90% reliability.  If the system will work as long as at least one of the components is working, no other failures are relevant, and component failures are independent, what is the minimum number of component instances (total, including the first component) that must be in the system?

One decentralized mutual exclusion approach we discussed involved replicating a resource N times, where access requires a majority vote from m > N/2 coordinators. What is the impact of increasing m if all other parameters were kept the same?

In a RESTful API:

Order: Furosemide 50 mg via GT every morning. Pt weight: 30 kg. Safe: 1–2 mg/kg/dose (max 6 mg/kg/dose). Supplied: 10 mg/mL. Answer how many mL in the text box with numbers only.  In the second answer indicate if the dose was safe yes or no.  

Infuse Tobramycin 160 mg in 100 mL over 1.5 hours. Place the number only in the text box for ml/hr. to the nearest whole number.  You may add ml/hr. to the answer on your paper.  

The US Constitution is considered 

What was the impact of the Three-Fifths Compromise?

Which of the following correctly completes the list?The special qualities are lifelikeness, Ephemerality,_____________, Complexity of means, and Immediacy