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MentoR Buy UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL SCIENCES SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE END OF SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS 2018/2019, TNF. 214: OPERATING SYSTEM DURATION: 2 Hours INSTRUCTIONS: Answer all quéiions in section A (60 marks) and any other #wo (20 marks cach) jn setion SECTION A : 1. Which of the following is an inlet ‘between a computer user and computer hardware? ALYMS. [ideo Waser B. Windows C. Linux CD Allofthe above 2. Which of the following is ttot & function of an Operating systerh? ” : ‘A. Control over systemis performance. begets: B. Aids in error detection ‘ : ae C. Job accounting fe : OPivone of the above : A _ #3. The program responsible for keeping track of devices is the... { AO controller a3 . . B: traffic controller» ” : got Cofile system rw" ‘ D. scheduler D. above mentioned 19, A machine system has 12 tape drives, with ‘m” processes competing for them. Each process may need 6 tape drives. The maximum value ef ‘m’ for which the system is guaranteed to be deadlock free is Al B2 c.3 Oo 20. A computer system is said to have 3 processes sharing 4 resources. If each process needs a maximum of 2 resources then, deadlock: A. has to occur B. may occur Qcan never occur D. none of the mentioned : 21.

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