Exam Details

Subject Operating System
Paper
Exam / Course Diploma -VIEP-Computer Science and Engineering(DCSVI)/Advanced Level O Certificate Course In Cse (ACCSVI) B.Tech. Computer Science And Engineering (BT
Department School of Engineering & Technology (SOET)
Organization indira gandhi national open university
Position
Exam Date June, 2015
City, State new delhi,


Question Paper

1. Choose the correct answer from the given four alternatives

Operating System is a/an

Interface between hardware and the user

Resource manager for the system

Both and

None of the above

Which of the following is not an Operating System?

DOS

NTFS

Ubuntu

Android

Absence of a needed page from the memory leads to a situation called

Faulty page

Missing page

Page fault

None of the above

Which of the following is not a scheduling technique?

FCFS

Round Robin

SJF

SSTF

On an Input and Output request the process moves from running state to

Ready state

Hold state

Wait state

Terminate state

Which of the following is not an allocation strategy?

Worst fit

Mid fit

Best fit

First fit

Techniques for handling deadlocks involve

Deadlock Detection

Deadlock Breaking

Deadlock Prevention

Deadlock Avoidance

With the help of a suitable diagram, explain the architecture and goals of an Operating System.

What do you understand by time sharing systems Explain with the help of an example. Differentiate between distributed and real-time Operating System.

Explain the principle of Concurrency. Also describe the classical problem of synchronization.

Differentiate between deadlock prevention and deadlock avoidance in detail. Also describe the priority scheduling technique, using suitable examples.

What do you understand by Memory Management Why do we need it Also explain the concept of Paging.

What is Memory Partitioning Why is it necessary? Explain the various memory partitioning techniques using examples.

5. Explain the following in detail

FCFS Disk Scheduling Technique

SCAN

CSCAN

Input and Output Functions

What is File Organisation How is it performed by operating systems ?Explain using examples.

Explain the concept of free space management using examples.

What are the various security threats encountered by an Operating System?

Explain the concept of Cryptography in detail, with suitable examples.

8. Write short notes on any four of the following:

Object Server Model

Dining Philosophers Problem

Multiprocessor Scheduling

File Sharing

Shell Programming


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  • Principles of Communication Engineering
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  • Theory Of Computation
  • Unix Internals And Shell Programming
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