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VALLIAMMAI ENGNIEERING COLLEGE
SRM Nagar, Kattankulathur 603203.
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
YearandSemester :II/IV
Section :CSE1&2
SubjectCode :CS6401
SubjectName :OperatingSystem
DegreeandBranch :B.ECSE
StaffIncharge :G.Sangeetha&V.Prema
UNITI
2 MARK QUESTIONS:
1. Definesystemprocess
2. Whatisaninterrupt?
3. Whatisasystemcall?
4. Whatisaninterruptvector?
5. Definebootstrapprogram
6. Defineoperatingsystem
7. Whatisaresourceallocator?
8. WhatisMooreslaw?
9. Whatiskernel?
10. Drawthestoragedevicehierarchy
11. Whatisfaulttolerant?
12. Definejobpool
13. whatarethetypesofoperationinoperatingsystem?
14. Whatisaprivilegedinstruction?
15. Whatisatrap?
16. Whatisbitmap?
17. Whatisrealtimeoperatingsystem?
18. Whatisbootdisk?
19. Drawthesystemstructureforunix
20. WhatisthelayeredapproachinOS?
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16 MARK QUESTIONS:
1. Explainindetailthemoderncomputersystem
2. Explaintheabstractviewofthecomponentsofacomputersystem
3. ExplainVonNeumannarchitecture
4. Explainmultiprocessorsystem
5. Explainoperatingsystemstructureindetail
6. Explaincomputingenvironments
7. Explainopensourceoperatingsystem
8. Explainindetailtheoperatingsystemservices
9. Explainindetailoperatingsystemstructure
10. WriteaboutOSgeneration
UNITII
2 MARK QUESTIONS:
1. Define Process
2. What are the Process State
3. What Is PCB?
4.Define Threads.
5. What are the types of Schedulers?
6. What is Context Switch?
7. What is Co-operative Process?
8. Define IPC.
9. What is Remote procedure Calls?
10. Define threads.
11. What is multicore Programming?
12. Define Multithreading
13. What is critical section problem?
14. What is semaphores?
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15. What is monitors?
16. What is preemptive Scheduling?
17. What is Non Preemptive Scheduling?
18. What are the scheduling Criteria?
19. What are the scheduling algorithm?
20. Define Dead Locks.
16 MARK QUESTIONS:
1.Explainthevariousprocessstate
2.Explaintheinterprocesscommunication
3.Explainaboutremoteprocedurecalls
4.ExplainaboutMultithreadingmodels
5.ConsiderthefollowingsetofprocesseswiththelengthoftheCPUbursttimegiveninmilliseconds
ProcessBurstTimePriority
P1103
P211
P323
P414
P552
Theprocessesareassumedtohavearrivedintheorderp1,p2,p3,p4,p5allattime0.
a. DrawfourGanttchartsillustratingtheexecutionoftheseprocessesusingFCFS,SJF,anon
preemptivepriority(asmallerprioritynumberimpliesahigherpriority)andRR
(quantum=1)scheduling.
b. Whatistheturnaroundtimeofeachprocessforeachoftheschedulingalgorithms
inparta?
c.Whatisthewaitingtimeofeachprocessforeachoftheschedulingalgorithmsinparta?
d.Whichoftheschedulesinpartaresultsintheminimalaveragewaitingtime?
6.Explainaboutvariousschedulingalgorithms
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7.Explainindetailaboutthecriticalsectionproblem
8.Explainindetailaboutsemaphoresandmonitors
9.Expainaboutdeadlockpreventionanddeadlockavoidancealgorithms
10.Considerthefollowingsnapshotofasystem
AllocationMaxAvailable
ABCDABCDABCD
P0001200121520
P110001750
P213542356
P306320652
P400140656
Answerthefollowingquestionusingbankersalgorithm
a)WhatisthecontentofthematrixNeed?
b)Isthesysteminasafestate?
c)Ifarequestfromprocessp1arrivesfor(0,4,2,0)cantherequestbegrantedimmediately?
UNITIII
2 MARK QUESTIONS:
1.DefineMemoryManagementUnit
2.WhatisDynamicLoading?
3.WhatisOverlays?
4.DefineSwapping
5.WhatisPaging?
6.Definesegmentation.
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7.WhatisHitratio?
8.WhatisTLB?
9.WhatisVirtualMemory?
10.Whatisdemandpaging?
11.HowtocalculateEffectiveaccesstimeinDemandPaging?
12.Whatismemorymappingapproach?
13.Whatarethepagereplacementalgorithm?
14.CompareLRUandOptimalReplacementAlgorithm
15.DefineAllocationAlgorithm.
16.ComparetheGlobalandLocalAllocation?
17.WhatisThrashing?
18.Consideralogicaladdressspaceofeightpagesof1024wordseachmappedontoaphysicalmemory
of32frames
a)Howmanybitsareinthelogicaladdress?
b)Howmanybitsareinthephysicaladdress?
19.Differencebetweeninternalandexternalfragmentation.
20.Differencebetweenlogicalandphysicaladdress.
16 MARK QUESTIONS:
1. ExplainindetailContiguousMemoryAllocation.
2. Explainindetailaboutsegmentation.
3. Explainindetailaboutpaging.
4. Explainindetailaboutsegmentationwithpaging.
5. Describethefollowingallocationalgorithms:
a. Firstfit
b. Bestfit
c. Worstfit
6. Givenmemorypartitionsof100KB,500KB,200KB,300KB,and600KB(inorder),howwould
eachoffthefirstfit,bestfit,andworstfitalgorithmsplaceprocessesof212KB,417KB,112KB,
and426KB(inorder)?Whichalgorithmmakesthemostefficientuseofmemory?
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7. Explaindemandpaging.
8. Explainpagereplacementalgorithms.
9. Considerthefollowingpagereferencestring:
1,2,3,4,,2,1,5,6,2,1,2,3,7,6,3,2,1,2,3,6
Howmanypagefaultswouldoccurforthefollowingreplacementalgorithms,assumingtwo,
threeframes?
Rememberthatallframesareinitiallyempty,soyourfirstuniquepageswillallcostonefault
each.
LRUreplacement
FIFOreplacement
Optimalreplacement
10. ExplainindetailaboutThrashing.
UNITIV
2 MARK QUESTIONS:
1.Whatisseektime?
2.whatisRotationallatency?
3.Whatarethetypesofdiskscheduling?
4.WhatisPhysicalformattingofthedisk?
5.Whatislogicalformattingofthedisk?
6.Whatisbootblock?
7.Whatisbadblocks?
8.Whatarethefileattributes?
9.WhataretheFiletypes?
10.WhatarethemethodsforAccessingthefile?
11.Definesingleleveldirectory.
12.DefineTwoleveldirectory.
13.Whatisdistributedfilesystem?
14.Writethestructureoflayeredfilesystem
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15.WhatisFCB.
16.Whataretheallocationmethodsfordiskspace?
17.Whatisbitvector?
18.Whatispolling?
19.WritedowntheCharacteristicsofI/Odevices.
20.Whatisstreams?
16 MARK QUESTIONS:
1. Explainindetailaboutdiscschedulingalgorithm.
2. Supposethatadiskdrivehas5000cylinders,numbered0to4999.Thedriveiscurrentlyserving
arequestatcylinder143,andthepreviousrequestwasatcylinder125.Thequeueofpending
requests,inFIFOorder,is
86,1470,913,1774,948,1509,1022,1750,130.
Startingfromthecurrentheadposition,whatisthetotaldistance(incylinders)thatthedisk
armmovestosatisfyallthependingrequestsforeachofthefollowingdiskscheduling
algorithms?
a. FCFS
b. SSTF
c. SCAN
d. LOOK
e. CSCAN
f. CLOOK
3. Explainindetailaboutdiscmanagement.
4. Explainindetailaboutdirectorystructure.
5. Explainindetailaboutfilesharingandprotection.
6. Explainindetailaboutfilesystemstructureandimplementation.
7. Explainindetailaboutallocationmethodsofdisc.
8. Explainindetailaboutfreespacemanagement.
9. ExplainindetailaboutBUSstructure.
10. ExplainindetailaboutKernelI/Osubsystem.
UNITV
2 MARK QUESTIONS:
1. WriteaboutLinuxKernelsystem.
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2. DrawthecomponentsoftheLinuxsystem.
3. WhatarethethreenetworklayersintheLinuxkernelsystem.
4. ListdownthecomponentsofaLinuxSystem.
5. WhatarethethreecomponentsofmodulesupportunderLinux
6. Whatisbuddyheapalgorithm?
7. Whatisdomainnamesystem?
8. Whatisvirtualization?
9. DrawthearchitectureofXenproject.
10. WhatisVMwareonLinux?
11. WhatisLinuxmultifunctionserver?
12. DefineFork.
13. WhatiskernelSynchronizationinLinux?
14. WhatisLinuxex2fsfilesystem?
15. DrawthedevicedriverblockstructureinLinux
16. Whatisthepurposeofblockbuffercache?
17. WhatarethesecuritygroupsinLinux?
18. Whatisprotectionmask?
19. Whatisfirewallmanagement?
20. Whatisstaticanddynamiclinking?
16 MARK QUESTIONS:
1. ExplainthebasicconceptsoftheLinuxsystem.
2. ExplainsystemadministrationrequirementforLinuxsystemadministrator.
3. ExplainsettingupaLinuxmultifunctionserver.
4. Explainlocalnetworkservices.
5. ExplainDomainnamesystems.
6. ExplainthebasicconceptsofVirtualization.
7. ExplainindetailaboutsettingupXen.
8. ExplainindetailaboutVMWareonLinuxHostandAddingGuestOS.
9. ExplainindetailaboutKernelmodulesinLinuxsystems.
10. ExplainindetailaboutnetworkstructureandsecurityinLinux.
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