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Subject System Software
Class BCA sth Semester
Paper BCA-313
Title of Paper System Software
Time Allowed 3 Hours
Maximum Marks: 75 MinPass Marks: 35%o

Note: Candidates are required to attempt five questions in all selecting at least two
questions each from sections A and B. section c is compulsory.

srICTroN A
e1. Define system software? Diff'erentiate betrveen system software and 15

application software. Give salient features of system software.

e2. What are language processing activities? What are various language 15
processors? Discuss in detail.
e3. Elaborate the design of a single pass assembler. What are the merits and 15
demerits of single pass assembler in comparison to two pass assembler?
e4. What do you t .un by a loader? What functions are perfotmed by a loader? 15
Discuss reloadable loaders in detail.
SECTION B
e5. What do you rlean by parsing? What are various types of parsing? Discuss 15
in detail giving their relative merits and demerits'
e6. What clolou *"un by intermediate code fbrnrs'7 Discuss intermediate code 15
forms for various arithmetic expressions.
e7. Is code optimization an important phase of cornpilation? What are different i5
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ways oi tpiirlrizing 'iire coiit ? Expiain anii iwL, sciremes with
suitable examples.
Q8. Discuss the following in detail
'd') Debug mouiiors 7.)
b) User interface 7.5
SECTIOI{ C
Q9. a) What are various types of system software? 03

b) What are the advantages and disadvantages of absolute loaders? 03

c) What ale the features of assembly language? 03

d) What do you mean by programming environment? 03

e) Compare compiler with interpreter. 03