Friday, May 30, 2014

Operating System Unit 5

PART – A (2 MARKS)

1. What are the registers of I/O Port?
2. What is polling?
3. What are the various I/O data transfer schemes?
4. Is programmed I/O efficient than Interrupt driven I/O? If yes justify your
answer?
5. What are the advantages of DMA?
6. What are the responsibilities of DMA Controller?
7. Define seek time and latency time.
8. What are the characteristics of I/O device?
9. What are the differences between blocking I/O and non-blocking I/O?
10. What are the I/O services provided by Kernel?
11. What is double buffering??
12. Define caching.
13. Define spooling.
14. What are the various disk-scheduling algorithms?
15. What is low-level formatting?
16. What is the use of boot block?
17. What is sector sparing?
18. What is constant angular velocity?
19. What is a stream?
20. What is swap space? What is its use?
21. What is RAID? List out its advantages
22. What is mirroring?
23. Give some examples for tertiary storage
24. Differentiate Scan Vs C-Scan and Look Vs C-Look

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