Friday, May 29, 2015

Sathyabama University BE CSE 6C0063 Operating Systems November 2010

SATHYABAMA UNIVERSITY

(Established under section 3 of UGC Act, 1956)

Course & Branch: B.E-CSE

Title of the Paper: Operating Systems Max. Marks: 80

Sub. Code: 6C0063 Time: 3 Hours

Date: 18/11/2010 Session: FN

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

PART - A (10 X 2 = 20)

Answer ALL the Questions

1. Explain Resources.

2. What is a Buffer?

3. Explain Process address.

4. What is a Semaphore?

5. What are the situations when deadlock occur?

6. How to detect deadlocks?

7. Explain load time.

8. How to find effective memory access time?

9. Define conflict resolution mechanism.

10. Define PID.

PART – B (5 x 12 = 60)

Answer All the Questions

11. (a) Discuss briefly OS strategies. (7)

(b) Explain processes and threads. (5)

(or)

12. (a) Mention the factors in OS designing.

(b) Write short notes on buffering device drivers.

13. (a) Describe briefly scheduling mechanism. (7)

(b) Explain Interacting processes. (5)

(or)

14. (a) Explain non-preemptive strategies. (7)

(b) Explain Resource abstraction. (5)

15. (a) Explain resource allocation graph with neat figure. (8)

(b) Explain the concept behind inter process communication. (4)

(or)

16. (a) Explain deadlock Prevention. (9)

(b) Explain briefly safe state. (3)

17. (a) Explain memory mapped files. (8)

(b) Write short notes on inverted page table. (4)

(or)

18. (a) Explain virtual memory. (7)

(b) Explain protection and security Information. (5)

19. (a) Discuss the Linux file structure. (8)

(b) Explain Control structure. (4)

(or)

20. (a) Explain Shell programming. (7)

(b) How to handle system and time information? (5)

Duraimani

B.E Civil Engineer Graduated from Government College of Engineering Tirunelveli in the year 2016. She has developed this website for the welfare of students community not only for students under Anna University Chennai, but for all universities located in India. That's why her website is named as www.IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com . If you don't find any study materials that you are looking for, you may intimate her through contact page of this website to know her so that it will be useful for providing them as early as possible. You can also share your own study materials and it can be published in this website after verification and reviewing. Thank you!