Topics discussed:

The topics that are discussed in this paper are client model, services of operating system, booting concept, device driver and its use, context switching, variable partition, W2K cluster server design, file mounting, disk formatting, etc.

Objectives of studying Operating Systems

• To know about the modern day Operating Systems and how they work.

• To know how Operating systems control hardware and information.

Text books to follow:

You can go through the following text books for Operating Systems:

• Operating Systems Internals and Design Principles by William Stallings

• Operating Systems by Achyut Godbole

Reference Books:

• Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum

• Operating Systems Concepts and Design by Milan Milankovic

• Operating Systems Principles by Abraham Silberschatz

Divisions in the Paper

There are three divisions of this paper as Section A, Section B and Section C.

Time and marks allotted

The total marks for this paper are 100 and the time duration in which this question paper is to be answered is of three hours.

Paper Pattern

There are total 20 questions in this paper which are divided into the three sections of the paper. Section A of the paper contains 10 questions which are objective type with 4 options in each questions of which only one is correct. Each question o this section carries 1 marks. There are 5 questions in the Section B of the paper, each of which contains 5 marks. There is one option provided in each of the question of this section. There are also 5 questions in the last section of the paper and the maximum mark for each of the question is 12 marks. All these question of the Section C are long answer type. As in Section, there are two options in each question of this section of which only one is to be answered.