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25-Comp-A5 Operating Systems: May 2014

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  1. Question 1 CPU Scheduling and Real-Time Systems
  2. Question 2 Deadlocks — Disk Sharing, Prevention, and a Resource-Bound Proof
  3. Question 3 Working Sets, FIFO Paging, and Fragmentation
  4. Question 4 Disk Block Allocation and Free-Space Management
  5. Question 5 Monitor for a Priority-Scheduled Shared Plotter
  6. Question 6 Protection, Disk Scheduling, and Disk Redundancy
  7. Question 7 Deadlock Handling, Starvation, and Directory Structures

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98-COMP A-5 Operating Systems — National Examinations, May 2014. 3 hours, closed book (approved calculator only). 100 marks. Candidates were instructed to answer any five of the seven questions; all seven are answered below as a complete study resource.

Reference texts: Silberschatz, Galvin & Gagne, Operating System Concepts (10th ed.) — scheduling (ch. 5), process synchronization/monitors (ch. 6–7), deadlocks (ch. 8), memory management/paging (ch. 9–10), file systems and disk scheduling (ch. 11–12); Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems (5th ed.), corroborating chapters on scheduling and file systems.