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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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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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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? 11.List the four steps that are necessary to run a program on a completely dedicated machine. 12.What are batch systems? 13.What are privileged instructions? 14.What do you mean by system calls? 15.What is process control block? 16.What are schedulers? 17.What is co-operative process? 18.What are the use of job queues, ready queues and device queues? 19.State the advantage of multiprocessor system. 20.What is the main advantage of multiprogramming? 21.What is the use of inter process communication. 22.What is meant by context switch? 23. What is independent process? 24.What are the benefits of co-operating processes? 25.How 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? 27.What is a thread? 28.What are the benefits of multithreaded programming? 29.Compare user threads and kernel threads. 30.What is the use of fork and exec system calls? 31.Define thread cancellation & target thread. 32.What 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? 43.Why is the Operating System viewed as a resource allocator & control program? 44. Define suspended state.

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