Operating Systems — Winter 2017

Define Process. List and explain the reasons for process creation and termination.

Explain the five state process model and the various queues associated.

Define interrupt and interrupt handling. Explain the instruction cycle with interrupts.

Explain the producer/consumer problem with reference to concurrent processing.

Define deadlock with example. Explain deadlock prevention and detection techniques.

What is dynamic partitioning? Explain first-fit, best-fit and next-fit placement algorithms with examples.

What is real-time scheduling? Describe the characteristics of real-time operating systems.

What is segmentation? How it differs from paging? Explain the address translation in both the cases.

What is processor scheduling? Explain round-robin scheduling policy with example.

What is disc scheduling? Describe different disc scheduling policies in detail.

Write short notes on (1) DMA (2) File system security

What is meant by secondary storage management? Discuss different File allocation methods.

Write short notes on (1) Double buffering (2) File system Architecture

What is client/server architecture? List its applications and discuss different classes of client/server architecture.

List and explain I/Otechniques in detail.

Define cluster. Explain clustering methods with its advantages and disadvantages.

Explain different RAID levels in detail.