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M.C.A. DEGREE MODEL EXAMINATION, OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2016

Second Semester

MC7204- OPERATING SYSTEM

( Regulation 2013 )

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 Marks

Answer ALL questions.

PART A ( 10 X 2 = 20 Marks)

1. What is an Operating system?

2. What are the different types of multiprocessing?
3. Define process.
4. Define semaphores.
5. Give the condition necessary for a deadlock situation to arise?
6. What is thrashing and explain the methods to avoid thrashing?
7. What is a resource-allocation graph?
8. What are the various file operations?
9. What is virtual memory?
10. What are the various page replacement algorithms used for page replacement?

PART - B ( 5 X 13 = 65 Marks )

11. a) Explain the various types of computer systems (13)

(OR)
b) What are the various process scheduling concepts (13)

12. a) Give a detailed description about deadlocks and its characterization (13)
(OR)
b) Explain the Bankers algorithm for deadlock avoidance (13)
13. a) Explain the various page replacement strategies (13)
(OR)
b) Explain the basic concepts of segmentation. (13)

14. a) What are files and explain the access methods for files? (13)
(OR)
b) Explain the schemes for defining the logical structure of a directory. (13)

15. a) Explain the architecture of Android OS with neat diagram? (13)

(OR)
b) Describe the windows vista system architecture and management ? (13)

PART-C

16) Consider the following five processes, with the length of the CPU burst time given in

Process Burst time

P1 10
P2 29
P3 3
P4 7
P5 12
Consider the First come First serve (FCFS), Non Preemptive Shortest Job First(SJF), Round Robin(RR)
(quantum=10ms) scheduling algorithms. (15)