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A distributed system uses a process called _____, where all the connected computers must confirm or agree on the answer or result to a computation before submitting it to a database.

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Distributed Consensus

Step-by-step explanation:

A distributed system refers to a set of connected computers to achieves a goal. They can each work independently and they usually appear as a single computer system to end users.

Database computations usually require each connected computer node to agree on the computations and results before submitting it to the database.

This process is referred to as a Distributed Consensus.

A distributed consensus makes sure that in a distributed system, the data among nodes all reach an agreement and make confirmations before submitting to a database.

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