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    MERU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

    P.O. Box 972-60200 – Meru-Kenya.


    Tel: 020-2069349, 061-2309217. 064-30320 Cell phone: +254 712524293, +254 789151411
    Fax: 064-30321
    Website: www.must.ac.ke Email: [email protected]

    University Examinations 2016/2017

    SECOND YEAR, FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF


    SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MATHEMATICS AND
    COMPUTER SCIENCE, BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SECURITY AND
    FORENSICS, BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND
    BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY

    FIRST YEAR, FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF


    BUSINESS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

    THIRD YEAR FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF


    SCIENCE IN INFORMATION SCIENCE

    CIT 3200: OPERATING SYSTEMS

    DATE: DECEMBER 2016 TIME: 2 HOURS

    INSTRUCTIONS: Answer question one and any other two questions

    QUESTION ONE (30 MARKS)

    a) Describe the conditions sufficient and necessary to produce a deadlock. (4 Marks)


    b) Briefly describe three objectives of an operating system design. (6 Marks)
    c) Outline five general categories of information in a process control block. (5 Marks)
    d) While surveying the various mechanisms and policies associated with memory management, it is
    helpful to keep in mind the requirements that memory management is intended to satisfy.
    Suggest five requirements. (5 Marks)
    e) Describe four common events that lead to the creation of a process. (4 Marks)

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    f) Distinguish between the following terms: (6 Marks)
    (i) Interrupt and trap
    (ii) Internal fragmentation and external fragmentation.

    QUESTION TWO (20 MARKS)


    a) Explain six considerations when deciding a good scheduling algorithm. (6 Marks)
    b) Describe four benefits of using a thread. (4 Marks)
    c) Discuss three different page replacement policies. (6 Marks)
    d) The file system of an operating systems maintains information about the files called file attributes.
    Outline any four file attributes. (4 Marks)

    QUESTION THREE (20 MARKS)


    a) Discuss three major reasons why operating systems need to evolve over time. (6 Marks)
    b) Below is a set of processes available for execution in a programmed environment:
    Process Burst time Arrival time
    A 9 0
    B 6 1
    C 3 3
    D 4 4
    E 7 6
    Schedule the processes using FCFS, SJF, SRTN and RR (t=3)and comment on your average
    turnaround time and average waiting time. (10 Marks)
    c) Inter-Process Communication which in short is known as IPC deals with the techniques and
    mechanisms that facilitate communication between processes. Outline four reasons for process
    cooperation. (4 Marks)

    QUESTION FOUR (20 MARKS)


    a) Consider a swapping system in which memory consists of the following hole sizes in memory
    order: 9KB, 4KB, 16KB, 18KB, 8KB, 9KB, 12KB and 11 KB. Which hole is taken for
    successive segment requests of:
    (i) 11 KB.
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    (ii) 5 KB.
    (iii) 13 KB
    For first fit, best fit, worst fit and next fit. (6 Marks)
    b) State the four conditions needed to hold to have a good solution for the critical section problem.
    (4 Marks)
    c) Describe the three ways of structuring files in the computer systems. (6 Marks)
    d) Describe any four contents of a page table, properly elucidating their relevance in page mapping.
    (4 Marks)
    QUESTION FIVE (20 MARKS)
    a) The speed of processors and main memory has far outstripped that of disk access. Outline any
    four disk Performance Parameters. (4 Marks)
    b) Differentiate between data protection and security. Discuss the techniques used for protection of
    user files. (4 Marks)
    c) Explain two types of process schedulers. (4 Marks)
    d) Briefly explain two types of I/O devices. (4 Marks)
    e) Briefly describe a page fault, properly stating how system responds to page faults. (4 Marks)

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