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CSC314 (CSC 314) - CSC314 Operating Systems CA - 2026 Exam - University of Buea
- Second Semester Examination, University of Buea, Faculty of Science, Department of Computer Science, Course CSC314 Operating Systems, Instructor Dr NYAMSI, Wednesday 08 July 2026: Questions on Reading and Comprehension (30 marks) covering the User View vs System View of an operating system, base/limit registers for memory protection, five user-oriented OS services, logical vs physical addresses, paging address-decomposition fill-in-the-blanks, and why loading base/limit registers is a privileged instruction.
- Exercise 1 (15 marks): Round Robin CPU scheduling (quantum 2ms) for three processes, requiring a Gantt chart, turnaround time and waiting time computations.
- Exercise 2 (15 marks): page-replacement algorithms (FIFO, Optimal, LRU) applied to a reference string with 4 frames, computing page faults for each.
- Exercise 3 (10 marks, optional): Effective Access Time calculation given a page-fault rate.
- Exercise 4 (10 marks, optional): resource-allocation graph construction and deadlock analysis for three processes and three resources.
