Exam Details
| Subject | Operating System Concepts and Networking Management | |
| Paper | ||
| Exam / Course | Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application (PGDCA)/ Advance Diploma inComputer Applications (ADCA) / Masters in Computer Applications (MCA) | |
| Department | School of Computer and Information Sciences (SOCIS) | |
| Organization | indira gandhi national open university | |
| Position | ||
| Exam Date | June, 2016 | |
| City, State | new delhi, |
Question Paper
Describe the structure and Characteristics of any two different types of guided transmission media.
What are the different layers of the TCP/IP protocol suite Write the function of each. Give a mapping between the TCP/IP layers and the OSI layers.
Explain the layers of the "THE" operating system and their structure.
What is the Windows NT Registry? What does it consist of Explain how you can secure the Registry and audit its critical components.
Describe the data structure of a process in LINUX, giving its components and the structure of each. How does the data structure of a process differ from that of a thread?
What is a firewall and what are its functions? Describe how it is useful and explain its limitations.
List the 7 RAID levels. What are the limitations of disk striping?
How can you configure a domain user account in Windows to allow the user to access her account only from 08:00 to 12:00 hours on Saturdays and Sundays?
In LINUX, what is the purpose of the file "/etc/shadow" Why is it readable only by root?
As an ordinary user in LINUX, you have a file called "secret" with some set of permissions. By writing the relevant commands, give two ways to remove write permission for all except yourself from "secret", such that the other permissions that already exist for the file remain unchanged.
Write the LINUX command to display on the screen a given word as many times as it occurs in a text file.
There is a program "wonderful" that takes a file as a command line argument and produces output and any error message on the screen. Write the LINUX command to run "wonderful" on "bigfile", as input file, sending the output to "outfile" and error messages to "diagfile".
Describe with examples the syntax and usage of the "mesg" command.
Write a bash shell script in LINUX called "calculate" that provides the result of the four basic arithmetic operations for two numbers. For example,
calculate 96/6
16
Ensure that your script carries out basic error checking.
Explain the function of any two protocols in the TCP/IP suite.
Explain the meaning and utility of unicasting, multicasting and broadcasting.
What is the mesh topology How is it different from star topology?
What are Data Terminal Equipments and Data communication Equipments
What is a multiprocessor operating system?
How can one encrypt a file using EFS in Windows XP
Name any two network protocols supported by Windows 2000.
What is a roaming user profile in Windows 2000
List six events that can be audited on a Windows 2000 computer.
5. Write short notes on the following:
Backups, describing all the three types of it
Working of Windows 2000 in User mode and Kernel mode
Group Policy in Windows 2000
Installation classes while installing LINUX
What are the different layers of the TCP/IP protocol suite Write the function of each. Give a mapping between the TCP/IP layers and the OSI layers.
Explain the layers of the "THE" operating system and their structure.
What is the Windows NT Registry? What does it consist of Explain how you can secure the Registry and audit its critical components.
Describe the data structure of a process in LINUX, giving its components and the structure of each. How does the data structure of a process differ from that of a thread?
What is a firewall and what are its functions? Describe how it is useful and explain its limitations.
List the 7 RAID levels. What are the limitations of disk striping?
How can you configure a domain user account in Windows to allow the user to access her account only from 08:00 to 12:00 hours on Saturdays and Sundays?
In LINUX, what is the purpose of the file "/etc/shadow" Why is it readable only by root?
As an ordinary user in LINUX, you have a file called "secret" with some set of permissions. By writing the relevant commands, give two ways to remove write permission for all except yourself from "secret", such that the other permissions that already exist for the file remain unchanged.
Write the LINUX command to display on the screen a given word as many times as it occurs in a text file.
There is a program "wonderful" that takes a file as a command line argument and produces output and any error message on the screen. Write the LINUX command to run "wonderful" on "bigfile", as input file, sending the output to "outfile" and error messages to "diagfile".
Describe with examples the syntax and usage of the "mesg" command.
Write a bash shell script in LINUX called "calculate" that provides the result of the four basic arithmetic operations for two numbers. For example,
calculate 96/6
16
Ensure that your script carries out basic error checking.
Explain the function of any two protocols in the TCP/IP suite.
Explain the meaning and utility of unicasting, multicasting and broadcasting.
What is the mesh topology How is it different from star topology?
What are Data Terminal Equipments and Data communication Equipments
What is a multiprocessor operating system?
How can one encrypt a file using EFS in Windows XP
Name any two network protocols supported by Windows 2000.
What is a roaming user profile in Windows 2000
List six events that can be audited on a Windows 2000 computer.
5. Write short notes on the following:
Backups, describing all the three types of it
Working of Windows 2000 in User mode and Kernel mode
Group Policy in Windows 2000
Installation classes while installing LINUX
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- Accounting and Financial Management
- Advanced Database Design
- Advanced Discrete Mathematics
- Advanced Internet Technologies
- Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Management
- Communication Skills
- Computer Graphics and Multimedia
- Computer Organisation & Assembly Language Programming
- Data and File Structure
- Data Communication and Computer Networks
- Database Management System
- Database Management Systems
- Design and Analysis of Algorithm
- Discrete Mathematics
- Elements of Systems Analysis & Design
- Numerical and Statistical Computing
- Object Oriented Analysis and Design
- Object Oriented Technologies and Java Programming
- Operating System Concepts and Networking Management
- Operating Systems
- Parallel Computing
- Principles of Management and Information Systems
- Problem Solving and Programming
- Software Engineering
- Systems Analysis and Design