B.TechSemester 42021-22Operating SystemsKCS401

Operating Systems (KCS401) - AKTU Question Paper 2021-22

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This is the official AKTU Operating Systems Previous Year Question Paper for B.Tech Semester 4, academic session 2021-22. Published by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU/UPTU), Lucknow. Free PDF download — no login required.

Course:B.Tech
Semester:Semester 4
Session:2021-22
University:AKTU / UPTU

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Operating Systems (KCS401) — complete question paper

Section AAttempt all q u e s t i o n s i n b r i e f . 2*10 = 20
  • a
    Define Operating system a nd mention its major functions. 2 2
  • b
    Briefly define the term Real Time Operating System. 2 1
  • c
    What do you mean by Concurrent Processes? 2 2
  • d
    Define Seek time and Latency time. 2 1
  • e
    What do we need Scheduling? 2 3
  • f
    What are the Performance Cr iteria in CPU Scheduling? 2 3
  • g
    Explain the Logical address space and Physical address spac e diagrammatically
  • h
    Explain in brief about the Mul tiprogramming with fixed partitions. 2 4 (i) What do you mean by the safe st ate and an unsafe state? 2 5 (j) What do you mean by the I/O Buffering? 2 5
Section BAttempt any three o f t h e f o l l o w i n g : 10*3 = 30
  • a
    Explain in detail about the File system protection and security. 10 5
  • b
    Explain in detail about the Mutual Exclusion and Critical S ection Problem
  • c
    Explain in detail about the Process Control Block (PCB) in CPU Scheduling
  • d
    Explain in detail about the Disk storage and Disk scheduling. 10 4
  • e
    Explain in detail about the Multiuser Systems and Multithre aded Systems
Section CAttempt any one p a r t o f t h e f o l l o w i n g : 10*1 = 10
  • a
    Write short notes on following. i) File system protection and security and ii) Linked File allocation methods
  • b
    Explain in detail about the Dining Philosopher Problem. 10 2
  • a
    Explain in detail about the O perating System services. 10 1
  • b
    Explain in detail about the T hreads and their management. 1 0 3
  • a
    Explain about the concept of File concept. Define in detail about the File organization and access mechanism
  • b
    A hard disk having 2000 cylinders, numbered from 0 to 1999. t h e drive is currently serving the request at cylinder 143,and the previous request was at cylinder 125.The status of the queue is as follows What is the total distance (in cylinders) that the disk arm mov es to satisfy the entire pending request for each of the following di sk- scheduling algorithms? (i) SSTF (ii) FCFS
  • a
    Explain in detail about the Inter Process Communication mod els and Schemes
  • b
    Explain in detail about the M onolithic and Microkernel Systems. 10 1
  • a
    Explain in detail about the D eadlock System model and Deadl ock characterization
  • b
    Illustrate the following page-replacement algorithms. i) FIFO ii) Optimal Page Replacement Use the reference string 7, 0,1, 2, 0, 3, 0, 4, 2, 3, 0, 3, 2,1, 2, 0, 1, 7, 0,1 for a memory with three frames

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