NARAYANA ENGINEERING COLLEGE::NELLORE

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

OPERATING SYSTEMS (19A05403T)

10 Marks & 2 marks Questions
Class : II Year II Sem Academic Year : 2021-22
Branch : CSE Staff: T.SAI PRASAD REDDY
UNIT-I

S.No Question CO BL Marks Year

what are the different functions provided by an operating system?

1 1 2 10 Feb 2014
Explain about operating systems operations and its types ? Dec2018-
2 1 2 10 Supply

3 What is system call? Explain different types of system calls.? 1 2 10 June 2019 -

(a)Explain about protection and security in operating systems? 5 June(2018 -

4 1 2
(b)Explain briefly about computing environments 5 Supply)

What is an Operating system?

1. 1 1 2 Feb 2014

2. What is the Kernel? 1 1 2

2018-Supply

What are Batch systems? (2018 -

3. 1 1 2 Supply)
What is the advantage of Multiprogramming? (2019 -
4. 1 1 2 Supply)

5. What is Dual-Mode Operation? 1 1 2

 UNIT-II

S.No Question CO BL Marks Year

5 May-2018
1 Explain about :a) Process concept and b) process Scheduling ? 2 2
5

(a)Explain briefly about various Threading Issues ? 5 (2019 -

2 2 2
(b)Explain briefly about Thread Libraries. 5 Supply)

What is a Scheduler? Explain the types of Schedulers with suitable

3 diagrams ? 2 2 10 Nov 2017

(a)What is Inter process Communication? Describe the two basic

5 May (2018
4 models of IPC with an example ? 2 2
5 - Supply)
(b)Explain various operations provided in IPC

1. What is the use of fork and exec system calls? Nov

2 1 2
2017
2. What is a shell?
2 1 2

3. Define CPU scheduling.

2 1 2

4. What is preemptive and no preemptive scheduling?

2 1 2

5. What is a Dispatcher?
2 1 2
 Year
S.No Question CO BL Marks

(a) How are segmentation and paging different? March

1 (b) Explain about contiguous memory allocation
3 2 10
2021

(a) Explain with an example Least Recent Used page

5 March
2 replacement policy. 3 2
5
(b) Explain with an example Optimal page replacement algorithm 2021
Given page reference string with 4 frames:
1,2,3,4,2,1,5,6,2,1,2,3,7,6,3,2,1,2,3,6
3 Compare the number of page fault for LRU,FIFO and 3 2 10 June 2018
Optimal page replacement algorithm.

4 (a) Operating systems frequently exploit locally to March

improve performance. Briefly describe an example where 5 2021
3 2
operating systems do so, and state how locality is 5
exploited.
(b) Explain about swapping ?

1.
What is logical address space and physical address space? 3 1 2 March
2021
2.
What is virtual memory? 3 1 2

3.
What is Demand paging? 3 1 2 March
2021
4. What is spooling in OS?
3 1 2

5. What is thrashing in OS?

3 1 2
S.No Question CO BL Marks Year

May 2020
1 Explain briefly about Deadlock Detection and Avoidance ? 4 2 10

(a) Explain Briefly about Disk scheduling ?

2 (b) Explain any 2 different disk scheduling algorithms with 4 2 10
their comparisons.
5
3 (a) Explain briefly about file system management ? 4 2 May 2018
(b) Explain File-system Implementation ? 5
(a) Define Deadlock and Explain briefly about Deadlock Characterization
? 5
4 (b) Explain the Banker’s algorithm for Deadlock avoidance with
4 2 Nov 2019
5
an example

1.
What is a resource-allocation graph? 4 1 2 May2019

2.
What are the methods for handling deadlocks? 4 1 2 June 2018

What is a file?
3. 4 1 2 May 2018

Define seek time and latency time.

4. 4 1 2

What are the allocation methods of a disk space?

5. 4 1 2
S.No Question CO BL Marks Year

(a) What is the purpose of Access Matrix? Draw and explain

5
1 about Access matrix ? 5 2 Dec 2017
5
(b)How are access matrix applied? Explain with an example.
May 2015
2 Explain different types of security threats ? 5 2 10

(a)State and explain the importance of user 5 2 5 March

3 authentication (b)Explain the functioning of Daisy Chain. 5 2021
4 Explain about Revocation of Access Rights ? 5 2 10 June 2014

1. What are the principles of protection? June 2014

5 1 2

2. Define security.
5 1 2

3. Define authentication. March

5 1 2 2021
4. What are the program threats?
5 1 2

5. What are the system threats?

5 1 2