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OPERATING SYSTEMS question paper
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1. Differentiate Distributed systems from Multiprocessor systems.
2. What is a process? Explain different process states.
3. Write the short notes on the following
(a) Race Condition
(b) Process Interaction
4. Write the resource allocation algorithm for Deadlock detection.
5. Explain about address binding for a user program and discuss multi step processing
of a user program.
6. (a) Discuss about N- step- SCAN policy for disk scheduling.
(b) Explain how double buffering improves the performance than a single buffer
for I/O.
© Differentiate between logical I/O and device I/O.
7. Explain various techniques implemented for free space management, discuss with
suitable examples.
8. (a) List the various techniques followed by password crackers in learning password.
(b) Compare active attacks with passive attacks.