MCA MAGADH UNIVERSITY QUESTION ( 2011-2014) (SECOND SEMESTER) OPERATING SYSTEM

MCA MAGADH UNIVERSITY QUESTION ( 2011-2014) (SECOND SEMESTER) OPERATING SYSTEM  
MCA MAGADH UNIVERSITY QUESTION ( 2011-2014) (SECOND SEMESTER) OPERATING SYSTEM






                                                                    2011-2014
                                                                 Full marks: 80
                                                                  Time: 4 hours
                                                        Answer any five questions


(1). What is Operating System? What are the functions of Operating system? Explain it.

(2). What is meany by Preemptive scheduling? How does it affect the system performance vis-a-vis non preemptive scheduling?

(3). Discuss the memory management in any Operating system. Explain the concept of virtual memory, paging and demand paging.

(4). What is mutual exclusion? How can you implement mutual exclusion print....? Discuss software solutions to the mutual exclusion problems.

(5). (a) Name various algorithms for page replacement.
       (b). Discuss FIFO  algorithm for page replacement and Delady is algorithm.

(6). What are the semaphores? How do they implement mutual exclusion? What are different types of semaphores? How can they be implemented?

(7). Explain the following:
     (a). Batch processing
     (b) Multi Programming
     (c) Time sharing
     (d) Real Time system

(8). What do you mean by concurrency and thread states ? What is thread Operations and threading models.

(9). Describe the salient features of the file system of UNIX.

(10). Write short notes of any three of the following:
        (a) Evolution of operating system
        (b) Dead locks
        (c) Swapping
        (d) Critical regions
        (e) Memory mapped terminals


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