WK 10

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Time : Three hours Maximum : 75 marks

PART A — (10  2 = 20 marks)

Answer any TEN questions.

1. What is operating system?

2. What is swapping?

3. What are the two schemes of distributed system?

4. What is paging?

5. Define : semaphore.

6. What is trun around time?

7. What is segmentation?

8. What is deadlock?

9. Define virtual memory.

10. What is thrashing?

11. What do you mean by best fit?

12. What is meant by context switch?

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PART B — (5  5 = 25 marks)

Answer any FIVE questions.

13. Write short notes on : Evolution of operating

system.

14. Explain interprocess communication.

15. Explain how count semaphore can be implemented

using binary semaphore.

16. Describe how swaping takes place in memory

management.

17. What are fragmentation and storage compaction?

Explain.

18. Describe the functions of file management.

19. Write a note on disk drivers.

PART C — (3  10 = 30 marks)

Answer any THREE questions.

20. What are the merits and demerits of segmented

memory management and paged memory
management? Explain.

21. Describe how to detect and avoid the deadlock.

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22. Discuss in detail about I/O controller.

23. Discuss the file security and protection problems

handled by operating system.

24. Explain the following scheduling algorithms.

(a) Round robin
(b) Shortest-Job-First
(c) FCFS.

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