Amity School of Engineering & Technology

Department of IT
Subject: Operating System
Semester: 4th
Last Date of Submission: 16-02-2015

Faculty Name: Ritu Gupta

TUTE SHEET 1

Qs1. What is an Operating System? What are the various functions of operating system?
Qs4. Explain the difference between multi-programming and time sharing.
Qs6. Explain the following
1) Time Sharing System
2) Distributed System
3) Real Time System
4) Multi-Processor System
Qs7. What do you mean by Multiprogramming and Batch processing?
Qs8. What are the benefits of Distributed System?
Qs9. Explain the structure of Operating System.
Qs11. Discuss the following features of OS:
1. System Program
2. System Call
3. System Protection
4. OS Components
Qs1. What do you mean by a process?
Qs2. What do you mean by PCB?
Qs3. What do you mean by context switch?
Qs4. Explain the difference between preemptive and non preemptive scheduling with the help of
some algorithms.
Qs5.What is the difference between a program and a process?

Qs6.What is CPU utilization?

Qs7.What is response time?
Qs8.With the help of a state transition diagram, explain various states of a process.
Qs9. Explain why real-time systems require a pre-emptive scheduling policy.