April 2013 (Summer drive) Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA) Semester 5 BC0056 Unix Operating System

(Book ID: B0973)

4 Credits

(40 + 20 Marks)

Attempt all the Questions:

Theoretical Questions: [8 x 5 = 40 Marks]

1. Discuss the architecture of UNIX operating system with appropriate diagram. 2. Explain the term inter-process communication. What are various approaches to achieve the same. 3. What is the purpose of setting accounts in Unix ? Explain the concept of privileges and its significance. 4. Explain the use of sync and fsck. 5. Explain the use of following variables: IFS, PATH, LOGNAME, PROMPT

Practical Questions: [ 2 x 10 = 20 Marks]

6. Demonstrate how and when can you use the commands: vi, cat, chmod, grep, man, pwd, ps, kill, mkdir, rm. [10 marks]

7.

Write a C program that illustrates the creation of child process using fork system call. One process finds sum of even series and other process finds sum of odd series. [10 marks]