Operating System
1. Explain
Belady's Anomaly.
2. What
is a binary semaphore? What is its use?
3. List
the Coffman's conditions that lead to a deadlock.
4. What
are short-, long- and medium-term scheduling?
5. What
are turnaround time and response time?
6. What
are the typical elements of a process image?
7. What
is the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB)?
8. What
is the resident set and working set of a process?
9. When
is a system in safe state?
10.
What is cycle stealing?
11.
What is meant by arm-stickiness?
12.
What are the stipulations of C2 level
security?
13.
What is busy waiting?
14.
Explain the popular multiprocessor
thread-scheduling strategies.
15.
When does the condition 'rendezvous' arise?
16.
What is a trap and trapdoor?
17.
What are local and global page replacements?
18.
Define latency, transfer and seek time with
respect to disk I/O.
19.
Describe the Buddy system of memory
allocation.
20.
What is time-stamping?
21.
How are the wait/signal operations for monitor
different from those for semaphores?
22.
In the context of memory management, what are
placement and replacement algorithms?
23.
In loading programs into memory, what is the
difference between load-time dynamic linking and
run-time dynamic linking?
24.
What are demand- and pre-paging?
25.
Paging a memory management function, while
multiprogramming a processor management function, are
the two interdependent?
26.
What is page cannibalizing?
27.
What has triggered the need for multitasking in
PCs?
28.
What are the four layers that Windows NT have in
order to achieve independence?
29.
What is SMP?
30.
What are the key object oriented concepts used by
Windows NT?
31.
Is Windows NT a full blown object oriented
operating system? Give reasons.
32.
What is a drawback of MVT?
33.
What is process spawning?
34.
How many jobs can be run concurrently on
MVT?
35.
List out some reasons for process
termination.
36.
What are the reasons for process
suspension?
37.
What is process migration?
38.
What is mutant?
39. What
is an idle thread?
40. What
is FtDisk?
41. What
are the possible threads a thread can have?
42. What
are rings in Windows NT?
43. What
is Executive in Windows NT?
44. What
are the sub-components of I/O manager in Windows
NT?
45. What
are DDks? Name an operating system that includes this
feature.
46. What
level of security does Windows NT meets?
47.
Explain the concept of Reentrancy.
48.
What is thrashing? |