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Posted By: Chithra       Member Level: Gold       Posted Date: 25 May 2008

2007 Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) M.C.A Computer Aplications CS-13 : OPERATING SYSTEMS Question paper



Course: M.C.A Computer Aplications   University: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)




ADCA / MCA (III Year)
Term- End Examination
December , 2007

CS-13 : OPERATING SYSTEMS

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 75

Note : Question number 1 is compulsory . Answer any three questions from the rest.

1. (a) Define deadlock with example. List the four necessary conditions for the deadlock occurrence. Also explain deadlock prevention methods. (Marks 8)

(b) Describe Belady’s anomaly with an example. Does it occur in all page replacement algorithms? (Marks 7)

(c) Expalin Producers / Consumers problem in concurrent programming, with an example. (Mark 5)

(d) Define the terms mutual exclusion and semaphores with examples. (Mark 5)

(e) What is thrashing? Explain its causes. Give examples. (Mark 5)

2 (a) Explain Ricart and Agarwala’s Algorithm for ordering of events in
distributed operating system environment. (Mark 7)

(b) If memory access time is 250 nsec; search time in TLB is 25 nsec; hit ratio is 80%; calculate effective memory access time. (Mark 3)

(c) Write the types of multiprocessor OS (Mark 5)

3. (a) For the following processes and CPU burst time
(Note : All the processes arrived at the same time)

Process
P1, P2 ,P3,P4
Burst time
1, 4,3,2
(i) Draw Ganttcharts showing the execution of processes for

(a) SJF
(b) Round Robin Scheduling (quantum 1)

(ii) Calculate the waiting time and turnaround time of each process for above scheduling algorithms. (Mark 6)
(c) Explain Dekker’s solution to mutual exclusion problem, with an example.
(Mark 6)

(d) Explain Access –matrix model for protection, with an example. (Mark 3)

4. (a) Explain the concept of paged segmentation. What are its overheads? (Mark 5)
(b) List and explain the disk allocation methods in an operating system. (Mark 5)

(e) Explain take –grant model for protection of a system (Mark 5)

5.(a) List the similarity and difference between multiprocessor and distributed systems. (Mark 5)

(b) Explain the concept of working set model with an example. (Mark 5)

(c) Explain single –stage and multi-stage interconnection networks with examples. (Mark 5)






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