Assignment Operating System

Q-1 What is an Operating System? Write its function.

Q-2 Which are the 3 main areas in which the operating system divides its services? Give examples.
Q-3 What are the features of Windows 98?
Q-4 What are the features of Windows NT?
Q-5 What are the features of Linux?
Q-6 What is a file system?
Q-7 Explain the file system related to Information Management with file operations only.
Q-8 Explain the following terms in case of magnetic disk:
1)Tracks and sectors 2) Seek time 3) Transmission time 4) Latency time/ Rotational delay
Q-9 What is VDU? Explain the following terms: a) Dumb terminal b) Intelligent terminal
Q-10 What is a process?
Q-11 Explain Context switching at a process level in multiprogramming system with example.
Q-12 Explain Running, Ready and Blocked process states in process management.
Q-13 Explain the following terms in case of process scheduling:
1) Turn around time 2) waiting time 3) Terminal response time 4) Event response time
Q-14 What is priority? Explain internal and external priorities.
Q-15 With reference to process management explain the terms:
a) External priority b) Purchased priority c) Internal priority 4) Time slice
Q-16 What functions are performed by memory management of operating systems? State any 4
memory management systems.
Q-17 Explain memory map of single user operating system.
Q-18 What is partitioning? Explain fixed and variable partitioning.
Q-19 What is paging and segmentation? Explain.
Q-20 Explain the concept of virtual memory and following terms:
1) Locality of reference 2) Page fault 3) Working set 4) Page replacement policy 5) Dirty page 6)
Demand paging
Q-21 What is GUI? State any four advantages of GUI.
Q-22What are the essential components of GUI? Explain.
Q-23 Explain in brief the following programs of MS-Windows:
a) Program manager b) File manager c) Control panel
Q-24 Define “Security” with respect to an operating system. Explain the different elements of security?
Q-25 What are attacks on security? Explain in short the ways in which a system can be attacked.
Q-26 What are computer worms? Explain its mode of operation.
Q-27 What is computer virus? State various types of viruses and the basis on which they are classified.
Q-28 What are the different methods by which virus can infect other programs?
Q-29 Explain virus detection, removal and prevention philosophies.
Q-30 Differentiate between computer worms and computer viruses.