Top 20 Questions of OS (B-TECH Electronics and Communication Engineering 6th)
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PART-A
1. Introduction to Operating system, Role of Operating System as resource manager, function of
kernel and shell, operating system structures, views of an operating system.
2. Process management: CPU scheduling, Scheduling Algorithms, PCB, Process synchronization,
Deadlocks, Prevention, Detection and Recovery.
3. Memory Management: Overlays, Memory management policies, Fragmentation and its types,
Partitioned memory managements, Paging, Segmentation, Need of Virtual memories, Page
replacement Algorithms, Concept of Thrashing.
PART-B
4. Device Management: I/O system and secondary storage structure, Device management policies,
Role of I/O traffic controller, scheduler.
5. File Management: File System Architecture, Layered Architecture, Physical and Logical File
Systems, Protection and Security.
6. Brief study to multiprocessor and distributed operating systems.
7. Case Studies: LINUX / UNIX Operating System and Windows based operating systems.
Top repeated questions
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1.
What is a deadlock? Write necessary conditions for deadlock occurrence.
Appeared 3 times
Appeared in: May 2024, May 2023
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2.
What do you mean by an operating system? Explain functionally of Batch and Multiprogramming operating Systems.
Appeared 3 times
Appeared in: May 2024, May 2023
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3.
What are semaphores? How can they be used to implement mutual exclusion?
Appeared 3 times
Appeared in: May 2025, May 2024, May 2023
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4.
What do you understand by locality of reference?
Appeared 2 times
Appeared in: May 2025, May 2023
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5.
Explain real time scheduling algorithms : RM and EDF.
Appeared 2 times
Appeared in: May 2024, May 2023
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