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Plot 91, Cadastral Zone, University Village, Nnamdi Azikwe Expressway, Jabi, Abuja

FACULTY OF SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
2022_2 EXAMINATION

COURSE CODE: CIT315


COURSE TITLE: Operating Systems II
CREDIT: 3 Units
TIME ALLOWED: 2½ Hours
INSTRUCTION: Answer Question ONE (1) and any other Three (3) Questions

QUESTIONS

QUESTION 1
a) Give a concise definition of Multithreading. (2 marks)
b) Discuss the term ‘process’ (4marks)
c) Itemize two methods that can be used to prevent race conditions in an
application program. (3 marks)
d) State and illustrate the function of process control block component. (8
marks)
e) Enumerate and discuss the categories of thread according to
functionality. (8marks)

QUESTION 2
a) Itemize the differences between logical and physical address in
Operating System. (5 marks)
b) Explain a process creation, and principal events that can create a
process (6 marks)
c) What is the possible occurrence of a child process being terminated by
parent process? (4 marks)

QUESTION 3
a) Write short note on three main classes of Interrupts. (9 marks)
b) Define the following terms:
i. Memory Partitioning.
ii. Paging.
iii. Semaphores. (2 marks each)
QUESTION 4
a) What is the primary difference between a kernel-level context switch
between processes (address spaces) and a user-level context switch? (6
marks)
b) List three (4) advantages and three (3) disadvantages of memory
swapping (7marks)
c) State four uses of interrupt. (2marks)

QUESTION 5
a) Discuss process states and its different kinds. (7 marks)
b) Explain Process Switching. (5 marks)
c) List some examples of the causes of interrupts. (3 marks)

QUESTION 6
a) Elucidate the steps involved in Context Switching. (6 marks)
b) Explain the conditions for resource deadlock (8Marks)
c) Define the term ‘Deadlock’. (1 mark)

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