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provided, organized unit-wise as per the GTU syllabus.
Unit 1 – Introduction to Operating System
1. What is Operating System? Explain basic functions of OS.
o Asked: 2 times
o Marks: 3, 3
2. Compare Multiprogramming and Multiprocessing.
o Asked: 2 times
o Marks: 3, 3
3. Explain any three main functions of an Operating System.
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 3
4. Describe the features of a distributed operating system.
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 4
5. Discuss the variety of task types that the operating system performs.
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 7
Unit 2 – Process and Threads Management
1. Explain process and thread. Explain process state diagram.
o Asked: 3 times
o Marks: 7, 7, 7
2. Draw and explain seven state process state transition diagram.
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 7
3. What is a process? Explain various fields of Process Control Block.
o Asked: 2 times
o Marks: 7, 7
4. Write a program for process creation using C.
o Asked: 1 time (in lab list)
5. Differentiate user-level and kernel-level thread.
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 3
6. Describe long-term, short-term and medium-term scheduling.
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 4
7. Define dispatcher. What is its function?
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 3
Unit 3 & 4 – Concurrency + IPC
1. Define: Critical Section, Race Condition, Mutual Exclusion.
o Asked: 2 times
o Marks: 3, 3
2. Explain Peterson’s Solution to achieve mutual exclusion.
o Asked: 2 times
o Marks: 7, 7
3. What is Semaphore? Explain producer-consumer using semaphore.
o Asked: 2 times
o Marks: 7, 7
4. Explain Dining Philosopher Problem using semaphore.
o Asked: 2 times
o Marks: 7, 7
5. Explain Readers-Writers Problem.
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 7
6. Difference between Mutex and Binary Semaphore.
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 3
7. Explain Monitor and how it achieves mutual exclusion.
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 4
8. Explain Inter-Process Communication via Shared Memory.
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 3
Unit 5 – Deadlock
1. What is Deadlock? List the conditions for deadlock.
o Asked: 2 times
o Marks: 3, 4
2. Explain Banker’s Algorithm with example.
o Asked: 3 times
o Marks: 7, 7, 7
3. Deadlock Prevention vs Avoidance.
o Asked: 2 times
o Marks: 4, 4
4. Explain Deadlock Detection Algorithm with example.
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 7
5. Explain Resource Allocation Graph.
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 3
Unit 6 – Memory Management
1. What is Virtual Memory? How are virtual addresses converted to physical?
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 4
2. Explain Page Replacement Algorithms (FIFO, LRU, Optimal).
o Asked: 2 times
o Marks: 7, 7
3. Explain First Fit, Best Fit, Worst Fit with examples.
o Asked: 2 times
o Marks: 7, 7
4. Explain Paging hardware with TLB.
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 7
5. Compare Paging and Fragmentation.
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 3
6. What is Thrashing?
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 3
7. What is Page Fault? How does OS handle it?
o Asked: 2 times
o Marks: 7, 7
Unit 7 – I/O and Disk Scheduling
1. Explain I/O buffering.
o Asked: 2 times
o Marks: 3, 3
2. Disk Scheduling Algorithms (FCFS, SCAN, C-SCAN, LOOK, etc.).
o Asked: 3 times
o Marks: 7, 7, 7
3. Explain DMA with diagram.
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 7
4. Explain RAID levels.
o Asked: 2 times
o Marks: 7, 7
Unit 8 – Security and Protection
1. Define Authentication. How does OS ensure it?
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 4
2. Access Control List.
o Asked: 2 times
o Marks: 4, 4
3. Domain of Protection.
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 3
4. System Threats and Program Threats.
o Asked: 2 times
o Marks: 4, 4
5. OS Security Design Principles.
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 4
Unit 9 – Unix/Linux and Shell
1. Write shell script to display all executable, zero-size files and directories.
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 4
2. Shell script to calculate factorial.
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 4
3. Shell script for marksheet, prime, Fibonacci, menu, sorting, etc.
o Covered in lab list
4. Explain synchronization in Linux.
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 7
Unit 10 – Virtualization
1. What is Virtualization? Benefits?
o Asked: 2 times
o Marks: 3, 7
2. Explain true virtualization with example.
oAsked: 1 time
oMarks: 3
3. Advantages and Disadvantages of Virtual Machines.
o Asked: 1 time
o Marks: 3
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