Operating System TU Board 2026 question paper

What is a monolithic kernel? How is it different from microkernel? Explain. [1+4]

What is multithreading? Explain different types of threads. [1+4]

Explain the different process states in detail. [5]

What are the necessary conditions for the deadlock? How deadlock is different from starvation? [4+1]

What is segmentation? How can it be used for the memory management? [1+4]

What are different page replacement algorithms? Explain. [5]

List some security problems in operating system. Explain the role of clock synchronization in distributed system. [2+3]

What is producer consumer problem? Explain the solutions of producer consumer problem using sleep and wakeup and compare it with the solution using semaphores. [1+4+5]

Consider the following resource allocation state: AllocationMaxAvailableABCDABCDABCDP₀001200121520P₁10001750P₂13542356P₃06320652P₄00140656 Find the need matrix. Using Bankers algorithm, check whether the system is in safe state or not? If yes, find the execution order of the processes. [10]

What are seek time and disk access time? Suppose that a disk drive has 5,000 cylinders, numbered 0 to 4,999. The drive is currently serving a request at cylinder 2,150, and the previous request was at cylinder 1,805. The queue of pending requests, in FIFO order, is: 2069, 1212, 2296, 2800, 544, 1618, 356, 1523, 4965, 3681. Starting from the current head position, what is the total distance (in cylinders) that the disk arm moves to satisfy all the pending requests for each of the following disk-scheduling algorithms? a) FCFS b) SSTF c) C-SCAN d) C-LOOK [2+8]