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OPERATING SYSTEMS (OS)


Unit wise Important Questions
Unit-1
1. What is the role of an operating system in computer systems? Discuss its
significance and provide a brief historical overview.
2. Compare and contrast different types of operating systems with examples: batch,
multiprogrammed, time-shared, personal computer, parallel, and distributed.
3. How does a simple batch processing operating system function? Mention its
advantages and limitations.
4. Describe the multiprogrammed operating system, its benefits, and drawbacks.
Differentiate between time-shared and multiprogrammed OS with an example.
5. What are the specific requirements and characteristics of operating systems
designed for personal computers?
6. Explain the significance of user interfaces (GUI and CLI) in personal computer
operating systems.
7. Provide examples of popular personal computer operating systems and analyze
their strengths and weaknesses.
8. Define parallel systems and distributed systems. Highlight their key differences.
Explain the benefits and challenges of utilizing parallel processing.
9. Discuss the advantages and challenges of building and managing distributed
operating systems.
10. Define real-time systems and explain their significance in various applications.
11. Classify real-time operating systems based on response times (hard real-time, soft
real-time), and provide examples of each.
12. Describe the essential components of an operating system: kernel, file system,
process management, and memory management.
13. Explain the primary services offered by an operating system: process management,
memory management, file management, and device management.
14. How do system calls facilitate communication between user programs and the
operating system? Provide relevant examples.
UNIT-2
1. Explain the concepts of processes and CPU scheduling in operating systems.
2. Describe the various operations that can be performed on processes.
3. Discuss cooperating processes and the significance of interprocess
communication. Provide examples to illustrate their use.
4. Explain the concept of threads and how they differ from processes. Discuss the
advantages of using threads.
5. Describe the different scheduling criteria used in operating systems and how they
influence the scheduling decisions.

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6. Compare and contrast various scheduling algorithms, such as First-Come-First-


Serve (FCFS), Shortest Job Next (SJN), Round Robin (RR), and Priority
Scheduling. Analyze their strengths and weaknesses.
7. Explain multiple-processor scheduling and the challenges associated with it.
8. Describe the role of the system call interface in process management.
9. Explain the functions of important process management system calls such as fork(),
exit(), wait(), waitpid(), and exec().
10. Provide examples to demonstrate the usage and behavior of each process
management system call.
UNIT-3
1. Explain the System Model for handling deadlocks in an operating system and also
Describe the characterization of deadlocks and the necessary conditions for a
deadlock to occur.
2. Discuss various methods for handling deadlocks, including deadlock prevention,
deadlock avoidance, and deadlock detection with examples for each.
3. Define the Critical Section Problem in process management and the significance of
synchronization in multi-process environments.
4. Explain a) hardware-based synchronization mechanisms b) semaphores
5. Describe the classical problems of synchronization, such as a) producer-consumer
problem b) readers-writers problem, and how semaphores can be applied to solve
them.
6. Discuss the concept of critical regions and how it helps in avoiding race conditions
in multi-threaded systems.
7. Explain the concept of monitors and their role in providing higher-level
synchronization mechanisms.
8. Explain interprocess communication (IPC) mechanisms for processes on a single
computer system, such as shared memory and message passing.
9. Discuss IPC between processes on different systems, including the use of pipes,
FIFOs, and message queues for communication.
10. Describe the concept of shared memory and how it facilitates communication and
data sharing among processes.
11. Provide examples of using pipes and FIFOs for IPC, highlighting their advantages
and limitations.
UNIT-4
1. Explain the concepts of logical versus physical address space and the need for
virtual memory in operating systems.
2. Describe the process of swapping and its significance in memory management.
3. Discuss the technique of contiguous allocation for memory management and its
advantages and limitations.
4. Explain the concept of paging and how it helps in managing memory efficiently.
5. Describe the segmentation approach to memory management and its advantages.
6. Discuss the combined approach of segmentation with paging and how it
overcomes the limitations of individual techniques.

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7. Explain the concept of demand paging and its role in efficient memory utilization.
8. Compare and contrast various page replacement algorithms, such as FIFO, LRU,
and Optimal, discussing their strengths and weaknesses.
UNIT-5
1. Explain the access methods used in file systems and their significance in
managing file data efficiently.
2. Describe the directory structure in file systems and how it aids in organizing and
accessing files.
3. Discuss the importance of protection mechanisms in file systems to ensure data
security and privacy.
4. Explain the File System Structure and how it helps in managing file metadata and
data storage.
5. Describe various allocation methods used in file systems, such as contiguous,
linked, and indexed allocation, and compare their advantages and limitations.
6. Discuss the management of free-space in file systems and the different strategies
used for efficient space utilization.
7. Explain the usage of open, create, read, write, close, lseek, stat, and ioctl system
calls in file operations.
8. Provide examples to illustrate how each system call is used to interact with files
and perform operations on them.

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