CS2411 Operating Systems May June 2014 Important Questions with Key Points

[Srini]

Anna University , Chennai

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Seventh Semester

(Common to EIE and ICE)

CS2411 Operating Systems 

(Regulation 2008)

May / June 2014 Important Question with Key Points

UNIT I

PROCESSES AND THREADS
1. Explain how protection is provided for the hardware resources by the operating system.
2. What are the system components of an operating system and explain them?
3. What are the various process scheduling concepts
4. Explain about interprocess communication.
5. Give an overview about threads and threading issues.

UNIT II

PROCESS SCHEDULING AND SYNCHRONIZATION
1. Write about the various CPU scheduling algorithms.
2.What is critical section problem and explain two process solutions and multiple process solutions?
3.Explain what semaphores are, their usage, implementation given to avoid busy waiting and binary semaphores.
4.Give a detailed description about deadlocks and its characterization
5.Explain the Banker’s algorithm for deadlock avoidance.

UNIT III

STORAGE MANAGEMENT
1.Explain about contiguous memory allocation.
2.Give the basic concepts about paging.
3.Write about the techniques for structuring the page table.
4.Explain the basic concepts of segmentation.
5.Explain the various page replacement strategies.

UNIT IV

FILE SYSTEMS
1.What are files and explain the access methods for files?
2.Explain the schemes for defining the logical structure of a directory.
3.Write notes about the protection strategies provided for files.

UNIT V 

I/OSYSTEMS
1.Write about the kernel I/O subsystem.
2.Explain the various disk scheduling techniques
3.Write notes about disk management and swap-space management.

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