Total Days If complete Newbie and Never Started, Don't Know Anything :- 5.5 Days
If You have Never Started Reading Distributed System it will take you at Normal 4 days to understand the subject and its individual topics. It will take you 1 day for revision and aim to revise the subject 3 times before exam.
There are great introductory videos in Chapter 1 [Start here]. Aim to finish Chapter 2 and Chapter 8 first [1.5 days] Then proceed to 5 to 6 to chapter 7. [1.5 days] Chapter 1,3,4 are easy and could be finished in 1 day.
Revision of individual topics will take 1 day.
As You Will Be Tired and Could Easily be distracted put .5 days for Error Adjustment.
The Correct Way To Study Is First You See All The Topics name generally and what is written in it for 5 minutes that you are familiar with the topics then proceed to the YouTube Videos Of that chapter and then watch all the videos and after you understand the topic deeply proceed to read from the book .
A very good way to revise before exam would be to play the YouTube Videos at 1.25X-1.5X speed and then watch notes.
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YouTube Videos [Extremely Recommended] [Start Here] Chapter 1 - Introduction To Distributed System
Chapter 2 - Distributed Object And File System [RMI is easier here then the book]
Chapter 3 - Operating System Support
Chapter 4 - Distributed Heterogenous Application And Corba
Chapter 5 - Time And State In Distributed System
Chapter 6 - Coordination And Agreement
Chapter 7 - Replication
Chapter 8 - Transaction And Concurrency Control
Chapter 9 - Fault Tolerance
Chapter 10 - No Videos Found In YouTube
Chapter Wise notes Chapter 1 - Introduction To Distributed System [Easy Difficulty] Chapter 2 - Distributed Objects and File System [Hard D.] Chapter 3 - Operating System Support [Easy D.] Chapter 4 - Distributed Heterogeneous Applications and CORBA [Easy D.] Chapter 5 - Time and State in Distributed Systems [Medium D.] Chapter 6 - Coordination and Agreement [Medium D.] Chapter 7 - Replication [Medium D.] Chapter 8 - Transaction and Concurrency Control [Hard D.] Chapter 9 - Fault Tolerance [Easy D.]