Assess students' ability to analyze and compare strong, causal, and eventual consistency models in distributed databases by testing understanding of formal guarantees, typical implementation mechanisms (e.g., quorums, vector clocks, leases), common anomalies, and trade-offs involving latency, availability, throughput, and partition tolerance; include tasks requiring evaluation of design choices for given workloads, justification of model selection for real-world scenarios, and short analyses that weigh correctness versus performance constraints.