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OS QB UT II

1. Describe CPU burst cycle and I/O burst cycle.


2. What is deadlock? Give characteristics of deadlock.
3. Describe Multilevel queue scheduling with labelled diagram.
4. Define the term swapping.
5. Explain different process scheduling criteria.
6. List the directory structures.
7. With suitable example describe how to use bit map method for free space management.
8. State the syntax and use of following process related commands :
a. i.bg ii.kill
9. Describe working of contiguous file allocation method.
a. Calculate average waiting time with Round Robin for following processes in memory.
(Time Slice = 4ms)

Process Burst
time
P1 3
P2 5
P3 7
P4 4
10. Given a page reference reference string(arrival) with four page frames, calculate the page
faults with FIFO and LRU page replacement algorithms respectively : 12, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 5, 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 1,6,7,8,7,8,9,7,8,9,5,4,4,5,4,2.
11. Compare between bitmap and linked list free space management techniques.(any six points)
12. Write any four system calls related to device management.
13. Describe different scheduling criteria.

14. State what interprocess communication is and explain its advantages.


15. Explain following terms with respect to Memory management :
I. Compaction
II. Swapping.
16. Enlist different file allocation methods and explain any two.

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