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This document contains 30 questions about operating systems. It asks about the definition and functions of an operating system, the main areas operating systems divide services into and examples, features of Windows 98, Windows NT and Linux, what a file system is and file operations, terms related to magnetic disks like tracks and sectors, what a VDU is and types of terminals, what a process is and process states, process scheduling terms, what priority and memory management are, concepts of paging, segmentation and virtual memory, what a GUI is and its advantages and components, programs in Windows like the program manager and control panel, definitions of security and attacks on systems, what computer worms are and how they operate, what computer viruses are and how they spread

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Assignment Operating System

This document contains 30 questions about operating systems. It asks about the definition and functions of an operating system, the main areas operating systems divide services into and examples, features of Windows 98, Windows NT and Linux, what a file system is and file operations, terms related to magnetic disks like tracks and sectors, what a VDU is and types of terminals, what a process is and process states, process scheduling terms, what priority and memory management are, concepts of paging, segmentation and virtual memory, what a GUI is and its advantages and components, programs in Windows like the program manager and control panel, definitions of security and attacks on systems, what computer worms are and how they operate, what computer viruses are and how they spread

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Assignment Operating System

Q-1 What is an Operating System? Write its function.


Q-2 Which are the 3 main areas in which the operating system divides its services? Give examples.
Q-3 What are the features of Windows 98?
Q-4 What are the features of Windows NT?
Q-5 What are the features of Linux?
Q-6 What is a file system?
Q-7 Explain the file system related to Information Management with file operations only.
Q-8 Explain the following terms in case of magnetic disk:
1)Tracks and sectors 2) Seek time 3) Transmission time 4) Latency time/ Rotational delay
Q-9 What is VDU? Explain the following terms: a) Dumb terminal b) Intelligent terminal
Q-10 What is a process?
Q-11 Explain Context switching at a process level in multiprogramming system with example.
Q-12 Explain Running, Ready and Blocked process states in process management.
Q-13 Explain the following terms in case of process scheduling:
1) Turn around time 2) waiting time 3) Terminal response time 4) Event response time
Q-14 What is priority? Explain internal and external priorities.
Q-15 With reference to process management explain the terms:
a) External priority b) Purchased priority c) Internal priority 4) Time slice
Q-16 What functions are performed by memory management of operating systems? State any 4
memory management systems.
Q-17 Explain memory map of single user operating system.
Q-18 What is partitioning? Explain fixed and variable partitioning.
Q-19 What is paging and segmentation? Explain.
Q-20 Explain the concept of virtual memory and following terms:
1) Locality of reference 2) Page fault 3) Working set 4) Page replacement policy 5) Dirty page 6)
Demand paging
Q-21 What is GUI? State any four advantages of GUI.
Q-22What are the essential components of GUI? Explain.
Q-23 Explain in brief the following programs of MS-Windows:
a) Program manager b) File manager c) Control panel
Q-24 Define “Security” with respect to an operating system. Explain the different elements of security?
Q-25 What are attacks on security? Explain in short the ways in which a system can be attacked.
Q-26 What are computer worms? Explain its mode of operation.
Q-27 What is computer virus? State various types of viruses and the basis on which they are classified.
Q-28 What are the different methods by which virus can infect other programs?
Q-29 Explain virus detection, removal and prevention philosophies.
Q-30 Differentiate between computer worms and computer viruses.

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