System Software Question Paper of MCA 4th Semester, Download Previous Years Question Paper 1

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MCA(403) (Semester - 4th)

 SYSTEM SOFTWARE

Time : 03 Hours

Instruction to Candidates:

1) Section - A is compulsory.

2) Attempt any Nine questions from Section - B.

Section - A

1.       

a.     How the various components of system software are related to each other?

b.     Define the terms source and object programs.

c.      What are different types of assembly program statements?

d.     Give the schematic for a two –pass assembler.

e.      How you will differentiate between formal parameters and actual parameters with reference to macros?

f.       What are the advantages and disadvantages of a nested Macro calls?

g.     What is the difference between pure and impure interpreter?

h.     Discuss the functions performed by analysis phase of compiler.

i.       What do you mean by compile and  go loader?

j.       How the loader is different form linker?

k.     Explain the advantages and disadvantages of using local optimization techniques?

l.       Where the use of contiguous memory allocation will give good results?

m.  Why do we need file systems?

n.     What do you mean by segmented page allocation?

o.     Why we need different types of schedulers in a single operating systems?

Section-B

2.     Draw and explain General Machine Structure for a typical von Neumann Machine.

3.     Differentiate between the terms absolute loaders and relocating loaders.

4.     Explain the meaning of the terms3 USING & BALR with reference to assembly language program.

5.     Discuss the major issues in design of the linkage editor.

6.     List various databases used in design of an assembler.

7.     What do you mean by design of a macro pre-processor?

8.     Write in brief about process management in operating systems

9.     Discuss in brief the memory allocation techniques you know.   

10.                        Draw and explain the block diagram of a DBMS

11.                        How you will define the term intermediate code generation?

12.                        Give the flow chart for processing macro calls and expansion.

13.                        Write a short note on different code optimization techniques.