CSE 5306			      Name___________________________________
Operating Systems
Exam 1, Spring 1996

Please read this:
This is a closed book, closed notes exam.
Use a dark ink pen and print answers on the test paper following the question.
Turn in all pages of the test. Write your answers legibly. Unreadable answers
will be counted wrong.
Read each question carefully and be sure your answer addresses the question.
Point values are given for each question. The exam has a total of 100 points.

1. [30 pts]
  For each of the following type of system (on the left side of the table)
  what attributes (top) are most applicable (appropriate).
  Each row should have a "Yes" in those column(s) ( 1 or more ) that are
  MOST appropriate.

		   1	     2		  3	 4	  5	   6
		   Critical  Resource	  Simple CPU and  Good	   Good
		   hardware  sharing	  implem I/O well Response Throughput
		   task      between sites ent	 utilized Time

  Simple batch

  Multiprogrammed
  batch

  Time Sharing

  Personal Computer

  Parallel

  Distributed

  Real time


2. [35 pts]
  Please give a short answer ( 10 to 30 words ) for each of the following:

  1. What is a bootstrap (boot)?


  2. What are four (4) levels of the storage hierarchy (not including
     cache ) ranked in decreasing performance order? Which might be cached?


3. [35 pts]
  Short answer:
  1. There are 5 "states" a process may be in. List four:
     1

     2

     3

     4

  2. Please list 5 management components of an Operating System:
     1
     2
     3
     4
     5

  3. List one problem (difficulty) with caching.