MU Information Technology (Semester 5)
Operating Systems
May 2015
Total marks: --
Total time: --
INSTRUCTIONS
(1) Assume appropriate data and state your reasons
(2) Marks are given to the right of every question
(3) Draw neat diagrams wherever necessary


1 (a) What is a system call? Explain any four system calls.
5 M
1 (b) Write a note on File Access Methods.
5 M
1 (c) Explain Internal & external Fragmentation.
5 M
1 (d) Explain various RAID levels.
5 M
1 (e) Discuss message passing.
5 M

2 (a) What are the problems associated with Critical region? How to overcome tue problem using Semaphore?
10 M
2 (b) What is scheduling? Give different scheduling policies & their comparison.
10 M

3 (a) Discuss various approaches for I/O Buffering provided by OS.
10 M
3 (b) Differentiate between Paging & Segmentation. Also explain Various Page replacement algorithms.
10 M

4 (a) Explain Objectives & Functions of OS.
10 M
4 (b) Discuss in detail various disk scheduling algorithms.
10 M

5 (a) What is a thread? Explain user Level Threads & Kernel Level Threads.
10 M
5 (b) What is meant by Interprocess communication? Explain Shared memory & message passing.
10 M

Write a notes on:
6 (a) Process control Block.
5 M
6 (b) Android OS.
5 M
6 (c) Process state transition Diagram.
5 M
6 (d) Producer consumer problem.
5 M



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