Wednesday 19 December 2012

Diploma OS QUESTION PAPER: Oct/Nov-2012


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BOARD DIPLOMA EXAMINATION, (C-09)
Oct/Nov-2012
DCME IV SEMESTER EXAMINATION
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Time : 3 Hours]                                                               [Total Marks: 80
PART-A    10*3=30
Instructions: (1) Answer all questions and each question caries four marks. (2) Answers should be brief and straight to t the point and shall not exceed five simple sentences.

1.       What do you mean by multiprocessor system?
2.       What do you mean by spooling and buffering?
3.       What is meant by shared memory in interprocessor communication?
4.       List the benefits of multithreading programming.
5.       What are the turnaround time and response time?
6.       Consider a system of four of the same type that are shared by the three processor each of the needs most two resources. show that the system is deadlock-free 
7.       How is the page number and offset numbers obtained?
8.       What is the cause of thrashing? How does the system detect threshing? Once it detects thrashing what can the system do to this problem?
9.       What information is needed for disk i/o?
10.   List operations to be performed on directories.

PART-B                                              5*10=50
Instructions: (1) Answer any five questions and each question caries twelve marks. (2) The Answers should be comprehensive and criteria for valuation is the Content but not the length of the answer.

11.   Explain the different types of system calls
12.   Explain  the multilevel queue scheduling
13.   Explain the processes of recovery from deadlocks?
14.   What is the process?
15.   Write about page replacement algorithms
16.   (a) write about the swapping
(b) Write about the single allocation
        17. Explain the disk structure
        18. What are the file operations? Explain them
  
       

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