Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University

Home Assignment B
Subject : OS

Exam: January 2015

Time : 1 Hr

Marks : 50

Instructions : 1) All Five questions are compulsory.

2) Figures to right indicate marks of the question.
3) Leave at least 2 blank lines after answer of each question.
4) Write question and sub-question number correctly in left margin.
5) Write at least 5-7 sentences for 5 marks question and 10-12 sentences for 10 marks
questions in your own words.
6) If you copy the text as answer from the text book/reference book, your marks will
be deducted.

Q No

Questions

Marks

Explain the steps in Spooling. Explain the two advantages of spooling in

detail.

Explain the term Hardware Independent in the context of 3GL or HLL

languages.

Explain the concept of Interrupt; with reference to Interrupt Pending

Register (IPR) and Interrupt Mask Register (IMR).

What the booting? What is the roll of ROM? Can we use other thing in
place of ROM?

Explain the Hierarchical File System.

Explain the reason for Interrupt Disabling / Enabling in Inter Process

Communication.

Explain the two deadlock strategies Ignore it and Recover From it.

Explain the Requirement for Dynamic Relocation of Memory

Management.

Explain a scheme of Protecting Memory in Memory Management in

detail.

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