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The document contains a comprehensive list of operating system viva questions and their answers, covering topics such as definitions, types of operating systems, process management, CPU scheduling, memory allocation, file management, deadlock, disk scheduling, and system calls. It provides concise explanations for each concept, making it a useful study guide for understanding fundamental operating system principles. Key concepts include process synchronization, memory management techniques, and various algorithms used in operating systems.

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The document contains a comprehensive list of operating system viva questions and their answers, covering topics such as definitions, types of operating systems, process management, CPU scheduling, memory allocation, file management, deadlock, disk scheduling, and system calls. It provides concise explanations for each concept, making it a useful study guide for understanding fundamental operating system principles. Key concepts include process synchronization, memory management techniques, and various algorithms used in operating systems.

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Operating System Viva Questions with Simple Answers:

1. Define operating system?


→ OS manages computer hardware and software.

2. What are the different types of operating systems?


→ Batch, Time-sharing, Distributed, Real-time, Embedded.

3. Define a process?
→ Process is a running program.

4. What are the contents of PCB?


→ Process ID, state, registers, program counter, memory info.

5. What is CPU Scheduling?


→ Selecting a process for execution.

6. Define arrival time, burst time, waiting time, turnaround time?


→ Arrival time: time entered queue.
→ Burst time: execution time.
→ Waiting time: time waiting.
→ Turnaround time: completion time - arrival time.

7. What are the different CPU scheduling criteria?


→ CPU utilization, Throughput, Waiting time, Response time.

8. What is the advantage of round robin CPU scheduling algorithm?


→ Equal time for all processes.

9. Which CPU scheduling algorithm is for real-time operating system?


→ Priority Scheduling.

10. In general, which CPU scheduling algorithm works with highest waiting time?
→ FCFS (First Come First Serve).

11. Is it possible to use optimal CPU scheduling algorithm in practice?


→ No, future burst times are unknown.

12. What is the real difficulty with the SJF CPU scheduling algorithm?
→ Needs future burst time.

13. Differentiate between general CPU scheduling algorithms and multi-level queue scheduling?
→ Multi-level queue has separate queues for processes.

14. What are CPU-bound and I/O-bound processes?


→ CPU-bound uses CPU more, I/O-bound uses input/output more.
15. What is the need for process synchronization?
→ To avoid conflicts in shared resources.

16. What is a critical section?


→ Part where shared resources are accessed.

17. Define a semaphore?


→ Variable used for process synchronization.

18. Define producer-consumer problem?


→ Managing shared buffer between producer & consumer.

19. Consequences of bounded & unbounded buffers?


→ Bounded limits items, unbounded has no limit.

20. Can producer and consumer access shared memory concurrently?


→ No, Semaphore allows safe access.

21. Differentiate between monitor, semaphore, and binary semaphore?


→ Monitor - high-level, Semaphore - integer, Binary Semaphore - 0 or 1.

22. Define dining-philosophers problem?


→ Philosophers share forks to eat.

23. Scenarios leading to deadlock in dining-philosophers?


→ All hold one fork and wait for other.

24. Define file?


→ Collection of related data.

25. What are the different kinds of files?


→ Text, Binary, Executable, Directory.

26. Purpose of file allocation strategies?


→ Manage disk space efficiently.

27. Scenarios for sequential, indexed, linked allocation?


→ Sequential - simple files, Indexed - direct access, Linked - flexible files.

28. Disadvantages of sequential file allocation?


→ Slow random access.

29. What is an index block?


→ Stores addresses of file blocks.

30. File allocation strategy used in UNIX?


→ Indexed allocation.
31. What is dynamic memory allocation?
→ Allocating memory during runtime.

32. What is external fragmentation?


→ Scattered unused memory spaces.

33. Which allocation strategies suffer from external fragmentation?


→ Contiguous allocation.

34. Solutions for external fragmentation?


→ Compaction, Paging, Segmentation.

35. What is 50-percent rule?


→ 1/3rd memory wasted due to fragmentation.

36. What is compaction?


→ Moving processes to remove free space.

37. Which of first-fit, best-fit, worst-fit is efficient? Why?


→ Best-fit - less wastage, but slower.

38. Advantages of noncontiguous allocation?


→ Avoids fragmentation.

39. Mapping logical to physical address in paging?


→ Physical address = base + offset.

40. Define base address and offset?


→ Base - starting address, Offset - distance from base.

41. Differentiate paging and segmentation?


→ Paging - fixed size blocks, Segmentation - variable size blocks.

42. Purpose of page table?


→ Maps logical to physical address.

43. Paging suffers from internal or external fragmentation? Why?


→ Internal - fixed size pages.

44. Effect of paging on context-switching time?


→ Increases due to page table switching.

45. Define directory?


→ Collection of files.

46. Describe general directory structure?


→ Single level, Two level, Tree, Acyclic Graph.
47. Types of directory structures?
→ Single, Two-level, Tree, DAG.

48. Efficient directory structure? Why?


→ Tree - easy to manage large systems.

49. Directory structure without isolation?


→ Single level.

50. Advantage of hierarchical directory structure?


→ Organized file management.

51. Define resource. Give examples.


→ Anything used by process - CPU, memory, printer.

52. What is deadlock?


→ Processes wait forever for resources.

53. Conditions for deadlock?


→ Mutual exclusion, Hold & Wait, No preemption, Circular wait.

54. Resource allocation graph for deadlock?


→ Shows cycle if deadlock occurs.

55. Use of Banker’s algorithm?


→ Prevents deadlock by safe state checking.

56. Difference between deadlock avoidance and prevention?


→ Avoidance - checks before allocation, Prevention - eliminates conditions.

57. What is disk scheduling?


→ Managing disk I/O requests.

58. Different disk scheduling algorithms?


→ FCFS, SSTF, SCAN, C-SCAN, LOOK.

59. Define disk seek time, access time, rotational latency?


→ Seek time - move head, Access time - total time, Latency - rotation delay.

60. Advantage of C-SCAN over SCAN?


→ Uniform wait time.

61. Algorithm with highest rotational latency? Why?


→ FCFS - far requests possible.

62. Define virtual memory?


→ Uses hard disk as extra RAM.
63. Purpose of page replacement?
→ Manage limited RAM.

64. General process of page replacement?


→ Remove page, load new one.

65. Page replacement techniques?


→ FIFO, LRU, Optimal, LFU.

66. What is page fault?


→ Page not in memory.

67. Algorithm suffering Belady’s anomaly?


→ FIFO.

68. Define thrashing? When it happens?


→ Too many page faults, low performance.

69. Benefits of optimal page replacement?


→ Least page faults.

70. Why optimal page replacement is not practical?


→ Needs future knowledge.

71. Command to count number of words in file?


→ wc -w filename

72. Command to give execute permission to bash file?


→ chmod +x filename.sh

73. Command to create file and display content?


→ cat > filename and cat filename

74. Command for pattern matching letter O in HELLO WORLD?


→ grep 'O' filename

75. System call to create process?


→ fork()

76. System call wait(&status) means?


→ Wait for child to finish.

77. System calls for file manipulation?


→ open, read, write, close, unlink.

78. Command to create and remove directory?


→ mkdir dirname, rmdir dirname
79. Command to know who is logged in?
→ who

80. What is process? States of process?


→ Program in execution. States: New, Ready, Running, Waiting, Terminated.

81. Command to print message in shell?


→ echo "message"

82. Syntax of shell statements:


→ a) if [ condition ]; then ... else ... fi
→ b) case value in pattern) commands;; esac
→ c) while [ condition ]; do commands; done

83. Shell program to add two numbers?


→ echo $((a+b))

84. Access permissions for file?


→ Read (r), Write (w), Execute (x)

85. Syntax of open system call?


→ int open(const char *pathname, int flags)

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