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Subject: Operating System Sem: BE 4th Sem CE/IT

UNIT - 1
SR NO QUESTIONS YEAR MARKS
1. What are the advantages of multiprogramming? SEP - 2021 04
2. List any four functions of operating system? JUN – 2022, 03
DEC - 2022
3. Explain structure of operating system. FEB - 2021 03
4. Define following terms. DEC - 2021 03
1. System bus
2. Auxiliary memory
5. What do you mean by cache memory? Explain the cache read operation. DEC - 2021 04
6. Differentiate multiprocessing and multiprogramming operating system. DEC - 2022 03
UNIT - 2
1. What is the thread? What are the difference between user-level threads NOV - 2021 07
and kernel-supported threads? Under what circumstances is one type
“better” than the other?
2. What is Process? Give the difference between a process and a program. NOV - 2021 03
3. What is Process State? Explain different states of a process with various NOV - 2021 04
queues generated at each stage.
4. Define the difference between preemptive and nonpreemptive NOV – 2021 04
scheduling. JUN - 2022 03
OR
Define preemption and nonpreemption.
5. What are the disadvantages of FCFS scheduling algorithm as compared to NOV – 2021 03
shortest job first (SJF) scheduling?
6. Explain process states and process control block in details. JUN – 2022 07
OR FEB - 2021 04
Explain process control block with diagram.
7. What are the various criteria for a good process scheduling algorithm? JUN - 2022 03
8. What is thread? Explain classical thread model. JUN - 2022 04
9. Give the Difference between Thread and Process. JUN - 2022 03
10. Explain the Priority scheduling algorithm. JUN - 2022 04
11. Draw and explain five state Process State Transition Diagram. FEB - 2021 04
12. Solve following example by FCFS and SJF CPU scheduling algorithm. Draw FEB - 2021 07
Gantt Chart and calculate Average Waiting Time and Average Turnaround
time.
13. Explain Thread Scheduling with suitable example. FEB - 2021 07
14. What is process? Explain the process creation and termination. DEC - 2021 07
15. Difference between user level and kernel level thread. DEC – 2021 04
DEC - 2022 03
16. DEC - 2021 07

17. What are various criteria for a good process scheduling algorithm? DEC - 2021 07
Explain any two preemptive scheduling algorithms in brief.

18. What is the criterion used to select the time quantum in case of round- DEC – 2021 04
robin scheduling algorithm? Explain it with a suitable example.

19. List criterions used to evaluate the performance of CPU scheduling DEC - 2021 04
algorithms.

20. What is process? Explain process control block with all parameters. DEC - 2022 07

21. What is scheduling? Explain the types of schedulers. DEC - 2022 04

22. List out various criteria for good process scheduling algorithms. DEC - 2022 07
Illustrate non-preemptive priority scheduling algorithm.

23. Differentiate process and thread. Explain process state diagram. DEC - 2022 07