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The System Software paper is a compulsory paper for the BCA course. The paper id is B0220. The question paper has one compulsory section which has short answer type questions. The next section has broad questions and also has a lot of choice for students. The two mark compulsory questions is Section A has questions such as definition of user’s address space, compiler, spooling, symbol tables, DBMS, vi editor etc. questions asking for the differentiations between two components is also quite common, such as the differences between assembler and compiler, phase and mass, macros and subroutines are quite common and important topics. In the Section B the student has to answer 4 questions from 6. Each question carries 10 marks and may or may not have sub sections. Most of the questions are set on the various aspects of software; some of the important topics are various types of text editors, paging memory management, functions of the RLD, ESD, TXT and END cards etc.