98-COMP A-5 Operating Systems — National Examinations, May 2015. 3 hours, closed book (approved calculators 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.
