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16SCS11: ADVANCES IN OPERATING SYSTEMS
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What are the three objectives of an operating system design? Briefly explain the typically
provided services of an operating system.
Draw the General structure of operating system control Tables and explain each table.
Describe the essential properties of the following types of the operating systems :
i) Time sharing ii) Embedded system.
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Discuss with an example, the concept of multiprogramming and multiprocessing using
systems. Also discuss in detail the advantages of multiprocessing systems.
Explain in detail, the UNIX system architecture with a neat diagram.
With a neat diagram of five state process model, briefly explain each state and the associated
possible transition.
Discuss the five principal storage management responsibilities necessary for the efficient and
orderly control of storage allocation.
Explain the UNIX- SVR4 process states with a neat diagram.
List and explain five storage management responsibilities of'a typical OS.
Define and list out in detail, the differences between a thread and a process. Explain with an
example the concept of sequential and multithreaded computation along with their advantages
and disadvantages.
With a neat diagram, briefly explain the Linux operating system kernel components.
Discuss the POSIX file operation system calls.
List the kernel mode components of windows. Also explain any five components of the
executive module of windows operating system.
Explain the key design issues of multiprocessor operating system.
Explain the key design issues for an SMP operating system.
What are the two sorts of policies of Resident set management? Explain it in relation with
replacement scope.
Explain any five major activity of an operating system in regard to main memory management.
List and briefly define four classes of real time scheduling algorithm.
Discuss in detail, how paged virtual memory is implemented in UNIX and Solaris
List three advantages of user level threads over kernel level threads
Explain the benefits of a microkernel organization.
Explain the advantages of segmentation to the programmer over a non segmentation address
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What are the requirements for supporting the mutual exclusion?
Explain the distributed algorithm for mutual exclusion with an example.
Discuss the advantages of the use of micro kernel
Discuss in detail the different states in windows thread using a state transition diagram.
Explain the five general areas of requirement for a real- time operating system.
Explain in detail the Linux real- Time scheduling classes, along with draw backs.
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Discuss in detail, how processes are managed in UNIX SVR4.
List and briefly define five general areas of requirements for a real time operating system
Explain the following system calls: i) fork()
ii) join()
iii)quit()
Define the two types of Distributed dead lock.
Discuss some of the key characteristics of an embedded operating system.
Explain the interfaces to a client, provided by the Tiny OS shared resource.
List and explain some of the potential advantages of process migration
Discuss the three characteristics of a bot.
List and briefly define three intruder behavior patterns.
What are different methods of handling deadlocks?
Explain the characteristics exhibited by botnet.
Explain the windows NT Trap Handles with a block diagram.
Explain with a figure how traps, interrupts and exceptions are handled by the windows
NT/2000 organization.
With a neat diagram, explain the process and resource management organization in
LINUX
Explain the four mechanism used by the Linux Kernel to perform the inter-process
communication.
Explain the four different mechanism by which a user process can perform IPC using
Linux kernel.
With a neat block diagram, explain the windows NT, executive process and thread
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Explain the different mechanisms by which a uses process can perform IPC using the Kernel.
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Write a note on operation of an Input/Output manager.
With a neat diagram, explain the Task control flow in the Kernel.
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With a neat diagram, explain the components of Tiny OS.
List and briefly define five different categories of synchronization granularity
Discuss in detail the classification of viruses.
With a neat diagram, describe the steps followed by a cache manager of windows NT executive
in cached read operation.
Compare the multithreading versus symmetric multiprocessing. Also discuss the potential
advantages of SMP over uniprocessor.
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