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Name................

B.TECH. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2OO9

Fifth Semester
Branch: Computer Science and Engineering
OPERATING SYSTEMS (R)
(Re gular/SuPPlementarY )

Maximum : 100 Marks

Tirne : Three Hor;rs
Part A
Answer all qu.estions.

What is a real time OS ? Give example of One such OS'

What are the Initial processes activated by UXD( on booting the system?
What are threads? Whv are they called light weight processes ?

What is the function of dispatcher ? Briefly explain'

What do you mean by a critical section ?
Briefly explain about interprocess communication'
Briefly explain about simple resident monitor program-
Defi.ne external fragmentation found in memory allocation
What are the different file perrnissions in UND( ? Explain briefly'
List out the differences between files and directories'
(10x4=40marks)

Part B
11. (a) Explain briefly about the features of Windows 2000'
Or
(b) Discuss in detail about the evolution of OS and also explain about
the structures ofOS'

12. (a) Discussirrdetailaboutdifferentprocessstates,processcontrolblockandpr'ocessscheduling.

Or
the scheduling
(b) With neat schematic exPlain the function of CPU scheduler' Also mention
criteria.
13. (a) Explain FCFS scheduling algorithm with a specifrc example'
Or
(b) What is a Semaphore ? What are the different tlpes of Semaphores ?
How do they help in

solving the rnutual exclusion problem ?

Turn over
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of the following
(i) overlays' (ii) pagrng'
14. (a) Write a teehnical note
Or ----r^'
segmentation Also explatn
n a-"tuit about the various
(b) What is segmentation ? Discuss
explain
or directory and its imprementation Arso
15. (a) *:Ij5Tf"*' ffiT :trncture
about Hash table
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of the following :
(b) Write a short technical note

(i) Shared and virtual devices'

(ii) Channels and control units'
(iiil Disk scheduliog methoils' (5 x 12 = 60 marks)