Fall 2012

Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA) – Semester 3

BC0042 – Operating Systems – 4 Credits

(Book ID: B0682)

Assignment Set – 1 (60 Marks)

Answer All Questions and they carry Equal Marks

1. Explain the five services provided by the operating system.

2. Describe the operating system Level Virtualization. 3. What is mutual exclusion? what are its requirements.

4. Explain five state process model

5. Explain cache with fully associative mapping.

6. Write a note on context switching .

Fall 2012

Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA) – Semester 3

BC0042 – Operating Systems – 4 Credits

(Book ID: B0682)

Assignment Set – 2 (60 Marks)

Answer All Questions and they carry Equal Marks

1. Draw a block diagram of an I/O structure and discuss the working principle.

2. Discuss the various file organization methods.

3. What are various I/O control strategies ? discuss in brief.

4. List out the conditions that result in Deadlock situations. Illustrate deadlock situation

with a simple graphical notation.

5. Discuss the architecture of Windows NT operating system.

6. Explain the file system attributes in brief.