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Operating System

The document contains questions about operating systems including basic functions, phases of software development, differences between RAM and ROM, cache memory, hard disks, compilers vs interpreters, lexical analysis, syntax analysis, scheduling, differences between microcontrollers and microprocessors, real-time systems vs soft vs hard real-time systems, mission critical systems, distributed systems, paging, page replacement algorithms, primary vs secondary storage, multitasking vs multiprocessing vs multithreading, software life cycles, demand paging, and paged segmentation.

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Operating System

The document contains questions about operating systems including basic functions, phases of software development, differences between RAM and ROM, cache memory, hard disks, compilers vs interpreters, lexical analysis, syntax analysis, scheduling, differences between microcontrollers and microprocessors, real-time systems vs soft vs hard real-time systems, mission critical systems, distributed systems, paging, page replacement algorithms, primary vs secondary storage, multitasking vs multiprocessing vs multithreading, software life cycles, demand paging, and paged segmentation.

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Operating System Questions

What are the basic functions of an operating system?


Explain briefly about processor, assembler, compiler, loader, linker and the
functions executed by them.
What are the difference phases of software development? Explain briefly?
Differentiate between RAM and ROM?
What is DRAM? In which form does it store data?
What is cache memory?
What is hard disk and what is its purpose?
Differentiate between Complier and Interpreter?
What are the different tasks of Lexical analysis?
What are the different functions of Syntax phase, Scheduler?
What are the main difference between Micro-Controller and Micro- Processor?
Describe different job scheduling in operating systems.
What is a Real-Time System?
What is the difference between Hard and Soft real-time systems?
What is a mission critical system?
What is the important aspect of a real-time system?
If two processes which shares same system memory and system clock in a
distributed system, what is it called?
What is the state of the processor, when a process is waiting for some event to
occur?
What do you mean by deadlock?
Explain the difference between microkernel and macro kernel.
Give an example of microkernel.
When would you choose bottom up methodology?
When would you choose top down methodology?
Write a small dc shell script to find number of FF in the design.
Why paging is used?
Which is the best page replacement algorithm and Why? How much time is
spent usually in each phases and why?
Difference between Primary storage and secondary storage
What is multi tasking, multi programming, multi threading?
Difference between multi threading and multi tasking
What is software life cycle?
Demand paging, page faults, replacement algorithms, thrashing, etc.
Explain about paged segmentation and segment paging
While running DOS on a PC, which command would be used to duplicate the
entire diskette?

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