OPERATINGSYSTEM

ALPHACOLLEGEOFENGINEEGINGANDTECHNOLOGY
SUB:OS QUESTIONBANK
1. Definitions Pagetable Operatingsystem Segmentation RealtimeOS Virtualmemory SoftRealtimeOS Demandpaging HardRealtimeOS Pageframe Spooling Thrashing Kernel Sequentialaccess Shell Directaccess Systemcall Indexedfile Process TLB Threshing Thread Physicaladdress Multithreading Virtualaddress IPC(Interprocesscommunication) Inode Criticalsection DMA Mutualexclusion Rotationaldelay Semaphore Rotationallatency ProcessControlBlock(PCB) Seektime Absolutepath ContextSwitch Relativepath Deadlock Protectiondomain Safeandunsafestate Accesscontrollist PreemptiveandnonPreemptive Resources Accessmatrix Fragmentation Salt Paging Authenticationandauthorization Pagefault 2. Whatisthemainadvantageofmultiprogramming? 3. Classifyoperatingsystems.Giveoneexampleofeach. 4. Explainrealtimeoperatingsystemcompareitwithotheroperatingsystems. 5. Whatisdifferencebetweenmultiprogrammingandmultiprocessing?Whatismultitasking? 6. Writeabriefnoteonoperatingsystemstructures. 7. Whatisthepurposeofsystemcalls? 8. Explainthefunctionofmemorymanagement. 9. Explainthestructureofprocesscontrolblock(PCB). 10. Drawlabeleddiagramofprocessstatetransition. 11. Compare:Processvs.program. 12. Compare:kernelvs.shell. By:NiravJGadhiya&HetalSuthar

OPERATINGSYSTEM 13. Explainproducerconsumerproblemusing a)semaphore b)monitors 14. Whatdoyoumeanbybusywaiting? 15. Explainhardwaresolutionformutualexclusion. (HINT:lockvariable,disablinginterrupts,TSLinstruction) 16. Explaindifferentschedulingalgorithms. 17. Whatisdeadlock?Explainnecessaryconditionsforthedeadlock. 18. Explainbankersalgorithmforsingleandmultipleresources. 19. Explainstepsfordeadlockdetectionandrecovery. 20. Explaintheconceptofswapping.Whyisitrequired? 21. Listadvantagesanddisadvantagesofcontiguousmemoryallocation. 22. Explainfragmentation. 23. Whathardwareisrequiredforpaging? 24. Compare:pagingvs.segmentation. 25. Whypagingandsegmentationiscombined? 26. Describesfollowingallocationalgorithms: Firstfit Bestfit 27. Whypagesizeisalwayspowerof2? 28. Explaintheuseofvalidinvalidbitinpagetable. 29. Explainperformanceofdemandpaging. 30. Explaintheneedofthepagereplacementalgorithm. 31. Explainthepagereplacementalgorithms. 32. Describeworkingsetmodels. 33. Explaintheconceptofthediskstorage. 34. Explainthevariousparametersofdiskperformance. 35. Explaindiskschedulingalgorithms. 36. Explaindiskmanagement. 37. Writeshortnotes: SSTF CSCAN FCFS LOOK SCAN Firstfit 38. Explainfileattributesindetails. 39. Describedifferenttypesofaccessmethods. 40. Listadvantagesanddisadvantagesoffollowingallocationmethods: Contiguous Linked Indexed 41. Whatisrecovery? 42. Explainfreespacemanagement. 43. Explainfilesystemconsistency.

Worstfit

Bestfit Worstfit

By:NiravJGadhiya&HetalSuthar