Swarnandhra: College of Engineering & Technology Autonomous M.TECH - I Semester Regular Examinations, February - 2020
Swarnandhra: College of Engineering & Technology Autonomous M.TECH - I Semester Regular Examinations, February - 2020
1. a) Define Hardware and Operating System? Explain the evolution of Operating System? (7M)
b) Explain about Memory hierarchy? (7M)
(OR)
2. a) Explain about Interruption handling process by an Operating System? (7M)
b) Explain about the objectives and functions of an Operating System? (7M)
3. Explain about the filter and editor commands used in Linux? (14M)
(OR)
4. Define shell? What are different types of Shells? Write a shell script to calculate factorial
of a given number? (14M)
5. Define system call? Explain about different types of system calls in OS? (14M)
(OR)
6. Explain about Interprocess Communication in Linux? (14M)
9. Explain about Deadlocks in Distributed Operating system and also write the prevention
mechanisms of a Deadlock (14M)
(OR)
10. What is an election algorithm? Explain different election algorithms used in distributed
operating systems? (14M)
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