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Time : Three hours Maximum : 75 marks

SECTION A — (10 × 2 = 20 marks)

Answer any TEN questions.

1. Define operating system.

2. What is a process?

3. What are the types of management present in

operating system?

4. What is semaphore?

5. What is monitor? Draw the diagrammatic view of

a monitor.

6. What is dynamic loading?

7. What are the problems occurred due to

fragmentation?

8. What is the use of paging scheme?

9. List down the types of access methods.

10. What is a file?

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11. Write down the examples for peripheral device.

12. How can we give authentication? Explain.

SECTION B — (5 × 5 = 25 marks)

Answer any FIVE questions.

13. Explain about any two types of operating systems.

14. Write short notes on threads.

15. What is critical section? What are the

requirements that must satisfy to avoid these
section problem?

16. How to protect deadlock situation? Explain.

17. Write the comparisons between contiguous and

non-contiguous allocation.

18. Write a note on page replacement and its

requirement.

19. How to transform I/O request to hardware

operation? Explain briefly.

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SECTION C — (3 × 10 = 30 marks)

Answer any THREE questions.

20. Explain about process scheduling with a diagram

in detail.

21. Explain in detail about classical problem of

synchronization.

22. Explain in detail about (a) swapping and

(b) overlays.

23. Write in detail about implementation of file

system.

24. Discuss about the access, matrix with its

implementation.

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