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operating system

Posted Date: 12 Feb 2008 Resource Type: Articles/Knowledge Sharing Category: Education

Posted By: sasi kala Member Level: Diamond
Rating:

Points: 4

Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Time : Three Hours Maximum : 100 marks

Answer ALL questions

PART A – (10 X 2 = 20 marks)

1. What is meant by graceful degradation?
2. What is the situation that gives raise to Process Termination?
3. What is meant by a Thread? Mention its advantage.
4. Specify the significance of priority-inheritance protocol.
5. What are different methods of dealing deadlock problem?
6. What is Thrashing? How can it be prevented?
7. Enumerate the important attributes of a file.
8. What is meant by intenal and external fragmentation?
9. How linked allocation solves the problem of contiguous allocation?
10. What is the function of bootstrap loader?

PART B – (5 X 16 = 80 marks)

11. (a) (i) Write short notes on the following terminologies : (8)

1. Time sharing systems
2. Distributed systems

(ii) What is the use of PCB? Explain the information specified in PCB. (8)

12. (a) Discuss in detail the different CPU scheduling algorithms with examples. (16)

(Or)

(b) (i) Explain the difference between preemptive and non preemptive scheduling (8)
(ii) Suggest a solution that can solve critical section problem. (8)

13. (a) (i) Discuss in detail about the different methods available to recover from deadlock
after its detection. (8)

or

(b) (i) Explain the following allocation algorithms : (16)
(i) First- Fit (ii) Best-Fit and
(iii) Worst-Fit

14. (a) (i) Explain the procedure used for handling a page fault. (8)
(ii) Describe any two page-replacement algorithm. (8)

(or)

(b) (i) Summarize the different types of file, their extension and the usage of each
File type. (8)
(ii) Describe the most common schemes available for defining the logical structure
Of a directory. (8)

15. (a) Discuss in detail the following three methods of allocating disk space.

(i) Contiguous allocation (ii) Linked allocation
(iii) Indexed allocation

(or)

(b) (i) Summarize the process of interrupt driven I/O cycle with a neat flow diagram. (8)

(ii) Briefly explain the steps involved in Direct Memory Access data transfer. (8)

Responses

Author: Jose Mathew 12 Feb 2008

Member Level: Platinum Points : 2

Hi Sasi kala,
Welcome to indiastudychannel. You can post the university question papers in the question paper section.

ISC team

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