Exam Details

Subject Unix Internals And Shell Programming
Paper
Exam / Course B.Tech In Computer Science And Engineering (BTCSVI)
Department School of Engineering & Technology (SOET)
Organization indira gandhi national open university
Position
Exam Date December, 2016
City, State new delhi,


Question Paper

1. Discuss the characteristics of the UNIX operating system. Draw the architecture of UNIX system and describe each layer. 10

2. Write a shell script that accepts the file name via the command line and if the file is readable, then it counts the number of lines, words and characters in that file. 5

Write a shell script to reverse a number. 5

3. Explain the algorithm for assigning new nodes. 10

4. How is the process creation performed Explain with the help of an example. 10

5. Explain the Pipes concept in detail.

6. Write down the advantages and disadvantages of the buffer cache.

7. Discuss the following interprocess communication mechanisms: 5+5

Message Passing

Message Queues

8. What do you mean by a 'Daemon' Explain the function of INIT Daemon. How do you kill a Daemon? 10

9. Explain the system BOOT and INIT processes. 10

10. Explain any two of the following: 5+5

Process Termination

Shells in UNIX

Distributed UNIX System


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Subjects

  • Advanced Computer Architecture
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Architecture
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Organisations
  • Cryptography And Network Security
  • Data Structure
  • Data Warehousing And Mining
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  • Design and Analysis of Algorithm
  • Digital Image Processing
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  • Logic Design
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  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Operating Systems
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  • Pattern Recognition
  • Principles of Programming Lang.
  • Real Time Systems
  • Software Engineering
  • Software Quality Engineering
  • Software Reusability
  • System Programming And Compiler Design
  • Theory Of Computation
  • Unix Internals And Shell Programming
  • Web Technology