Previous year question paper for OS (B-TECH information technology 4th)

1. Introduction to Operating system, Role of Operating System as resource

kernel and shell, operating system structures, views of an operating system.

manager, function of

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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

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4. Device Management: I/O system and secondary storage structure, Device management

policies, Role of I/O traffic controller, scheduler [5]

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.

Case Studies: LINUX / UNIX Operating System and Windows based operating systems.