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MCA (Revised)
Term-End Examination
001 BO December, 2017

MCS-041 : OPERATING SYSTEMS

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100


(Weightage : 75%)

Note : Question no. 1 is compulsory. Attempt any three


questions from the rest.

1. (a) Describe the implementation of IPC using


shared memory and message passing.
Explain with neat, diagrams. 10

(b) Suppose the following jobs arrive for


processing at the times indicated. Each job
will run the listed amount of time. 10

Job CPU
Arrival Time Burst Time
1 0.0
2 0.4 4
3 1.0 1
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(i) Give a Gantt chart illustrating the
execution of these jobs, using the
non-pre-emptive FCFS and SJF
scheduling algorithms.
(ii) What is the turn around time and
waiting time of each job for the
above algorithms ?
(c) Explain various Multiprocessor
Interconnection Networks. 10

(d) Differentiate between SCAN and C-SCAN


disk scheduling algorithms. Using an
example, explain the steps. Also give a
brief note on RAID. 10

2. (a) Explain the structure of Unix and Windows


Operating Systems. 10

(b) Explain the different approaches for


implementing mutual exclusion in a
distributed environment. 10

3. (a) Characterize deadlock in a system. Using a


resource allocation graph, illustrate a
deadlock and explain in detail. 10

(b) Explain the design goals and design issues


involved in a distributed system. 10

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4. (a) Describe memory management in
Windows 2000. 10
(b) Explain various schemes used for defining
the logical structure of a directory.
Describe the directory structure of Unix. 10

5. (a) Differentiate between the following : 10

(i) Internal and External


Fragmentation
(ii) Demand paging and Demand
segmentation
(iii) Fixed and Variable partition
(iv) First fit, Best fit and Worst fit
(b) Explain Take-Grant Model for security and
protection of an operating system. 10

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