OPERATING SYSTEM

Question Bank

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO OPERATING SYSTEM [12 Marks]
2 Marks Questions
1. What is multitasking? Explain with suitable example. [W-13]
2. What is distributed system? [S-12]
3. What is meant by clustered system? [S-12]
4 Marks Questions
1. Describe time sharing system with suitable example. [W-13]
2. Explain any four characteristics of WIN-07. [W-13]
3. Describe real time system. State any two examples. [W-13]
4. What is multitasking? Explain with suitable example. [W-11]
5. Describe real time systems. State any one example of its application. [W-11]
6. Explain time sharing operating system. State its advantages and disadvantages. [W-11]
8 Marks Questions
1. Explain in detail, various generations of operating system. [S-12]
2. Explain different characteristics of following operating system
i. Windows XP
ii. Windows 7



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CHAPTER 2: OPERATING SYSTEM STRUCTURE [18 Marks]
2 Marks Questions
1. Enlist any four system calls related with memory management. [S-12]
2. State the role of operating system in process communication. [S-12]
3. What is a system call? Explain use of any two categories of system call. [W-11]
4 Marks Questions
1. Explain any four services provided by operating system. [W-13]
2. With suitable diagram, explain the structure of monolithic operating system. [W-13]
3. What is the purpose of system calls? State any two system calls with their functions.
[W-13]
4. Explain secondary storage management. [W-13]
5. List any four system components and explain any two. [W-13]
6. Explain microkernel operating system structure.[W-13]
7. List services provided by operating system and explain any four of them. [S-12]
8. What are system calls? Explain system calls implementation with its working. [S-12]
9. Explain booting in detail. [W-11]
10. Draw and explain monolithic structure of operating system. [W-11]
11. Describe nay four services provided by operating system. [W-11]
12. Describe concept of device management in operating system. [W-11]
13. State any four types of process related system call? Explain any one system call in detail.
[W-11]
14. Define the following terms
i. Synchronous communication ii. Asynchronous communication
8 Marks Questions
1. Explain i. Monolithic OS structure ii. Layered OS structure
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CHAPTER 3: PROCESS MANAGEMENT [22 Marks]
2 Marks Questions
1. What is context switch? Define. [S-12]
2. List models of threads.[S-12]
3. Draw process state diagram with neat labeling.[S-12]
4. Write In brief about any two conditions leading to process suspension.[W-11]
5. Define the term threads.[W-11]
4 Marks Questions
1. With neat diagram, explain process control block.[W-13]
2. Draw and explain inter-process communication model.[W-13]
3. Draw the process state diagram and explain any one state.[W-13]
4. Explain: i. Process creation. ii. Process termination.[W-13]
5. List multithreading models. Explain any one with suitable diagram.[W-13]
6. Explain the concept of inter-process communication.[S-12]
7. Describe the concept of inter-process communication.[W-11]
8. Explain any two scheduling queues.[W-11]
9. What is multithreading? Explain with suitable example.[W-11]
10. State and explain any two states.[W-11]
11. Draw types of schedulers. State & explain any one scheduler used in scheduling.[W-11]
8 Marks Questions
1. What is context switching?[W-13]
2. Describe the terms:
i) Scheduling queues ii) Scheduler iii)Thread iv) Multithreading[S-12]
3. What is process? Describe process creation & termination with conditions.[S-12]
4. State and explain multithreading models with diagram.[S-12]
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CHAPTER 4: SCHEDULING [20 Marks]

2 Marks Questions
1. State types of scheduling.[s-12]
2. Enlist direct methods of deadlock prevention.[s-12]
3. Write down any two advantages of priority based scheduling.[s-12]
4. Differentiate between preemptive and non preemptive scheduling.[w-11]

4 Marks Questions
1. Differentiate between preemptive and non preemptive scheduling.(any four).[w-13]
2. What is scheduler? Explain multilevel queue scheduler with suitable example.[w-13]
3. Enlist and describe in detail deadlock prevention methods.[w-13]
4. List the steps to be followed when using bankers algorithm to avoid deadlock.[w-13]
5. The jobs are scheduled for execution as follows. Solve the problem by using
i. SJF ii. FCFS
Process Arrival time Burst time
P1 0 7
P2 1 4
P3 2 9
P4 3 6
P5 4 8

4 Explain round robin algorithm with suitable example.[w-13]
5 Explain four conditions for deadlocking.[w-11]
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6 State the meaning of the following terms related to process scheduling criteria:
i. Response time ii. Deadline
iii. Throughput iv. Turnaround time [w-11]
7 State merits and demerits of IO scheduling method.[w-11]
8 Explain any two methods of deadlock prevention.[w-11]
9 Explain with example shortest remaining time next[w-11]
10 Describe in brief the bankers algorithm for deadlock avoidance.[w-11]
11 Explain I/ O burst and CPU burst cycle? Give one example.[w-11]

8 Marks Questions
1. Explain the following deadlock avoidance algorithm:
i. Bankers algorithm
ii. Resource request algorithm [s-12]
2. Consider the following set of process with arrival time as shown below:
process Priority Arrival Cpu burst(in ms)
P1 2 0 8
P2 3 1 4
P3 1 2 9
P4 4 3 5
Find out average waiting time by using
i. Non-preemptive SJF
ii. Preemptive SJF
iii. Non-preemptive priority
iv. Preemptive priority scheduling algorithm [s-12]
3. Explain in detail how deadlocks can be handeled.[s-12]
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CHAPTER 5: FILE SYSTEM AND MEMORY MANAGEMENT [20 Marks]

2 Marks Questions

1. What is meant by page fault?[s-12]
2. State any four operations, which can be performed on the file.[s-12]
3. Explain the concept of demand paging in brief.[s-12]
4. Enlist free space memory management system.[s-12]
5. List and state in one sentence, eight different types of files.[w-11]
6. Describe fixed partitioned memory management system.[w-11]
7. Explain any operations which can be performed on file.[w-11]
8. Define following terms: Demand paging[w-11]

4Marks Questions

1. Explain any four attributes of file.[w-13]
2. Define the following:
i. Swapping
ii. Virtual memory[w-13]
3. Compare paging and segmentation memory management technique.[w-13]
4. Describe demand paging in detail.[w-13]
5. Explain least recently used page replacement algorithm.(LRU)[w-11]
6. Describe the dynamic allocation strategy for file allocation.[w-11]
7. Explain the FIFO page replacement algorithm, For the reference string 7 0 1 2 0 3 0 4
2 3 1 0 3[w-11]
8. Name any two file protection methods. Write in brief about them.[w-11]
9. Explain optimal page replacement algoritrhm with example.[w-11]
10. Differentiate between sequential and direct file access methods .[w-11]
11. List two methods of free space management techniques? and explain any one.[w-11]
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8 Marks Questions

1. What are the different file allocation methods ?explain any one in detail with
example.[w-13,s-12]
2. List the directory structure. explain any two with suitable diagram, advantages and
disadvantages[w-13]
3. Explain any two page replacement algorithms with their advantages and
disadvantages [s-12]
4. Explain in detail any two directory structure with its advantages and disadvantages[s-
12]
5. Consider swapping system in which memory consist of the following hole size or
partition sizes in memory order as 10 kb ,4kb,20kb,18kb,7,9,12,15.using different
methods ,find out which partition is selected for successive segment request of:
i. 12kb
ii. 10kb
iii. 9kb
For;
a. First fit
b. Best fit
c. Worst fit








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CHAPTER 6: UNIX: A CASE STUDY [8 Marks]

2 Marks Questions

1. Define UNIX?

4 Marks Questions

1. Explain in detail overview of unix?
2. Explain file structure in unix ,how it differs from windows
3. Give the diffence between LINUX andUNIX
4. Explain relative and absolute path in file structure in UNIX?

8 Marks Questions

1. Give the steps involved in Booting of UNIX operating system.
2. Explain 4 directory related commands of UNIX
a. MKDIR
b. RMDIR
c. PWD
d. CD