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CS 2411 OPERATING SYSTEMS

UNIT III UNIT III
TB 1 Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne, “Operating System Concepts”, Sixth Edition, Wiley India Pvt Ltd, 2003.
TB 2 D. M. Dhamdhere, “Operating Systems: A concepts based approach”, Second Edition, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
Ltd., 2006.

REF 1 Andrew S. Tanenbaum, “Modern Operating Systems”, Second Edition, Pearson Education/PHI, 2001.
REF 2 Harvey M. Deital, “Operating Systems”, Third Edition, Pearson Education, 2004
Student
Ans -
Textboo Referre Mar
Qs. No. Questions Univ Qs. Page
k No. d Page k
Nos.
Nos.
TLP Memory Management: Background
No.1
1. What is the main function of the memory-management unit? APR/MAY TB1
2012 2
2. Define dynamic loading. NOV TB1
2014 2
3. Define dynamic loading. NOV/DEC TB1
2014 2
4. What are overlays? NOV/DEC TB1
2012 2
TLP No.2 Swapping
5. Define swapping. TB1 2
TLP No.3 Contiguous memory allocation
6. What are the common strategies to select a free hole from a TB1
2
set of available holes?
7. What do you mean by best fit? TB1 2
8. What do you mean by first fit? TB1 2
9. What is virtual memory? TB1 2
TLP No.4, Paging and page replacement
10
10. What is Demand paging? TB1 2
11. Define lazy swapper. MAY TB1
2011 2
12. What is a pure demand paging? TB1 2
13. Define effective access time. TB1 2
14. Define secondary memory. TB1 2
15. What is the basic approach of page replacement? TB1 2
16. What are the various page replacement algorithms used for TB1
2
page replacement?
17. What are the major problems to implement demand paging? TB1 2
TLP Virtual Memory:Background
No.5
18. What is a reference string? TB1 2
19. Explain about contiguous memory allocation. TB1 10
20. Give the basic concepts about paging. TB1 16
21. Write about the techniques for structuring the page table. TB1 8
TLP No.7 Segmentation
22. Explain the basic concepts of segmentation. NOV/DEC TB1 16
2012
23. Explain the various page replacement strategies. NOV/DEC TB1 16
2012
24. Differentiate between page and segment NOV/DEC TB1
2013 2
25. Differentiate between internal and external fragmentation NOV/DEC TB1
2013 2
26. What are the advantages and disadvantages of contiguous NOV/DEC TB1
2013 4
and non contiguous memory allocation
TLP Demand paging TB1
No.8
27. Describe the process of demand paging in OS TB1 16
TLP Thrashing
No.9
28. What are the causes of thrashing? Explain working set model MAY TB1
2013 8
with an example.

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