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Operating System Concepts and Definitions

This document contains 44 questions about operating systems concepts including: 1. The differences between tightly coupled and loosely coupled systems, as well as batch OS and multiprogramming, multitasking and multiprogramming, and SMP and ASMP. 2. The definition of an operating system, kernel, and real-time system as well as clustered systems. 3. How the OS acts as a resource manager and the purposes of an OS. 4. Processes, process states, context switching, and process control blocks. 5. Scheduling, job queues, ready queues, device queues, and inter-process communication. 6. Multiprocessing advantages and multiprogramming benefits. 7. Thread

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Operating System Concepts and Definitions

This document contains 44 questions about operating systems concepts including: 1. The differences between tightly coupled and loosely coupled systems, as well as batch OS and multiprogramming, multitasking and multiprogramming, and SMP and ASMP. 2. The definition of an operating system, kernel, and real-time system as well as clustered systems. 3. How the OS acts as a resource manager and the purposes of an OS. 4. Processes, process states, context switching, and process control blocks. 5. Scheduling, job queues, ready queues, device queues, and inter-process communication. 6. Multiprocessing advantages and multiprogramming benefits. 7. Thread

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ASSIGNMENT -1

1. Differentiate between tightly coupled systems and loosely coupled systems. 2. Define OS 3. What are the differences between Batch OS and Multiprogramming? 4. What are the differences between Multitasking and Multiprogramming? 5. What are the differences between SMP and ASMP? 6. What is Clustered System? 7. What is Real Time System? List out their types. 8. Is Os a resource Manager? If so justify your answer 9. What is the kernel? 10. What are the three main purposes of an operating system? [Link] the four steps that are necessary to run a program on a completely dedicated machine. [Link] are batch systems? [Link] are privileged instructions? [Link] do you mean by system calls? [Link] is process control block? [Link] are schedulers? [Link] is co-operative process? [Link] are the use of job queues, ready queues and device queues? [Link] the advantage of multiprocessor system. [Link] is the main advantage of multiprogramming? [Link] is the use of inter process communication. [Link] is meant by context switch? 23. What is independent process? [Link] are the benefits of co-operating processes? [Link] can a user program disturb the normal operation of the system? 26. What are the three major activities of an operating system in regard to Secondarystorage management? [Link] is a thread? [Link] are the benefits of multithreaded programming? [Link] user threads and kernel threads. [Link] is the use of fork and exec system calls? [Link] thread cancellation & target thread. [Link] are the different ways in which a thread can be cancelled? 33. Define process. 34. Define process states. 35. What are the use of job queues, ready queues & device queues? 36. What is process control block? 37. What is meant by context switch? 38. How is the protection for memory provided? 39. What are privileged instructions? 40. How can a user program disrupt the normal operations of a system? 41. What is Dual- Mode Operation? 42. What is graceful degradation? [Link] is the Operating System viewed as a resource allocator & control program? 44. Define suspended state.

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