17-COMP A-5 Operating Systems — National Examinations, May 2018. 3 hours, closed book (one approved pocket calculator only). 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.) — process synchronization/monitors (ch. 6–7), CPU scheduling (ch. 5), deadlocks (ch. 8), memory management/paging (ch. 9–10), mass-storage/file-system implementation and disk scheduling (ch. 11–12), protection (ch. 14); Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems (5th ed.), corroborating chapters on synchronization, scheduling, memory and file systems.
