CSE (IOT-CS & BCT)
Operating System – PCC-CS-502
Marks : 5
1. What are the difference between a trap and an interrupt? What is the use
of each function?
2. What is the difference between Time Sharing and Batch system?
3. What is difference between logical address and physical address?
4. What are the advantages of using Thread over Process? What is System
Call?
5. Mention the contents of PCB.
6. What are the differences between process and thread?
7. What resources are used when a thread created? How do they differ
from those when a process is created?
8. What is kernel?
9. What is a Process? Draw and explain the process state diagram?
10. Why is context switching considered to be time consuming?
11. What is the main objective of Multiprogramming? Draw and describe
process state transitions.
12. What is Medium Term scheduler?
13. What is critical section problem? What are the requirements a critical
section problem must satisfy?
14. What is critical section problem? What are the requirements those are
to be met critical section problem?
15. Mention the basic principle of RR scheduling. Specify the impact of
time quantum on its performance.
16. What is deadlock? Critically comment on the following topic: Cycle in
resource allocation graph does not always imply the occurrence of
deadlock.
17. Describe the two basic operations on semaphore. Explain whether any
integer variable with similar operations can act as semaphore or not.
18. What are the advantages and disadvantages of having unequal size
partitions in fixed partitioning scheme?
19. Give details of how paging is implemented in hardware. Explain what a
Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) is and give details of how it works.
20. Briefly explain Belady's anomaly.
21. Mention any two file access method?
22. What are the advantages of SCAN disk scheduling technique over
circular SCAN disk scheduling technique?
23. Explain any one technique adopted by operating systems for protection
of objects in the system.
Marks : 15
1. Write short notes on the following: Real time systems.
2. Write short notes on the following: Spooling
3. Write short notes on the following: Orphan process and Zombie process.
4. What is thread? Draw and explain thread life cycle.
5. Write short notes on the following: Aging Technique
6. Write short notes on the following: Shortest Job First (SJF) scheduling
7. Identify the requirements to be satisfied to solve the critical section
problem.
8. What is semaphore? Differentiate between binary and counting
semaphore.
9. What are the problems of busy-wait implementation of semaphore?
Explain how it is solved.
10. What is Deadlock? List four necessary conditions for the occurrence of
deadlock.
11. State four necessary conditions for deadlock.
12. What are the advantages of segmentation over paging?
13. How does Indexed file Allocation Technique overcome the above
disadvantages?
14. If the size of each data block is 512 bytes in Unix file system, assuming
the size of a pointer is 4 bytes. Find the maximum size of a file when Inode
block contains 10 direct pointers, 1 single indirect pointer, 1 double
indirect pointer and 1 triple indirect pointer.
15. Describe structure of FAT file system.
16. Suppose a disk drive has 300 cylinders, numbered O to 299. The current
position of the desk arm is 90. The queue of pending requests, in FIFO order
is 36, 79, 75, 120, 199, 270, 89, 170. Calculate the average movements for
the following algorithms: (i) FCFS (ii) SSTF
17. Write short note on Security and Protection in Operation System.
18. Write a program using 'fork' to demonstrate the mother-child
relationship of processes.
