BCA | OS(Operating System) 2023 Paper | MDSU Exam Paper

1. What is an operating system?

2. What is distributed system?

3. Write short note on process states?

4. What is scheduler?

5. Define critical section?

6. Differentiate between paging and segmentation

7. Write five commands of Linux.

8. What is Kernel?

9. What is Shell variables?

10. What is thread?

11. Discuss operating system structure. Define layered approach.

12. Explain the working time sharing system.

13. What are the various criteria for a good process. Scheduling Algorithm?

14. What are the various methods for disk allocation?

15.What do you mean by VI editor?

16.Write short note on:-

(a) Batch Processing

(b) System Calls.

Operations of OS.

OR

Explain process coordination, critical sections and semaphores?

17. Write short note on:-

(a) Swapping

(b) Virtual memory.

(c) Thrashing

OR

Define distributed system structrue?

18. What are the storage files in Linux? How Linux access files?

OR

Write a shell program to print largest of two numbers?