Sri Sai Vidya Vikas Shikshana Samithi ®

SAI VIDYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Approved by AICTE, New Delhi, affiliated to VTU, Recognized by Govt. of Karnataka
Accredited by NBA, New Delhi (CSE, ECE. ISE, MECH & CIVIL), NAAC – “A” Grade
DEPARTMENT OF CSE (AI & ML)
RAJANUKUNTE, BENGALURU 560 064, KARNATAKA
Phone: 080-28468191/96/97/ E-mail: [email protected] * URL www.saividya.ac.in

MODULE 1
1. Explain salient features of the Unix Operating System What are different types of files in a unix os? Explain
briefly. July/Aug 2022, Jan/Feb 2021
2. Explain basic file types in Unix Explain briefly about absolute & relative pathname. Jan/Feb 2021, Jan/Feb
2023
3. Difference between Internal & External commands. July/Aug 2022, Jan/Feb 2021, Jan/Feb 2023
4. What is Parent child relationship? With the help of neat diagram, explain Unix File System Jan/Feb 2021,
Jan/Feb 2023
5. Define Shell Script. Write menu driven shell script which displays- June/ July 2023
i. Current user of system
ii. List of files
iii. Today’s date
iv. Contents of file
6. Explain the following commands. June/ July 2023
i. printf
ii. who
iii. date
iv cat
v. od
7. Write the output for the following commands. Jan/ Feb 2023

i. cal 10 2021 ii. date + “%D%T” iii. type echo iv. passwd v. who

8. Explain any 5 file related commands with an example. Jan/ Feb 2021
 MODULE 2
1. Interpret the significance of ls -l command redirection. July/Aug 2022, Jan/Feb 2021, Jan/Feb 2023,
Feb/March 2022.
2. Explain for and while control system in shell script with example. July/Aug 2022
3. Explain the Looping statements with syntax. Jan/Feb 2023
4. With the help of an example, explain grep command with its option. Jan/Feb 2021, July/Aug 2022, Jan/Feb
2023, June/July 2023
5. File current permission are rw-r-xr-- specify chmod expression required to change for the following using
both relative and absolute method. Jan/Feb 2021
i. rwxrwxrwx
ii. r--r-----
iii. ---------
iv. ---r--r--
v. -----x-w-

6. What is the output for the following: Jan/Feb 2021, Jan/Feb 2023

i. ls[ijk]*doc
ii. [A-Z]????*
iii. *.[!s][!h]
iv. *[!0-9]
v. cp????progs
vi. rm chap*

vii. mv *[!C][!P][!P]
viii. cat *.txt | wc-c
ix. cp chap\[0-1\]
7. What is Shell. Briefly explain shell interpretive cycle. Jan/Feb 2021, July/Aug 2022
8. Explain three standard file and redirection in unix. July/Aug 2022, Jan/Feb 2021, June/July 2023.
9. Write the output of the following commands: Jan/Feb 2023

i. grep “Anil” std ls || echo “ pattern not found”

ii. test $x -gt $y
iii. [-z $stg]
iv. [-r $file]
v. [! -n $stg]
 Sri Sai Vidya Vikas Shikshana Samithi ®
SAI VIDYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Approved by AICTE, New Delhi, affiliated to VTU, Recognized by Govt. of Karnataka
Accredited by NBA, New Delhi (CSE, ECE. ISE, MECH & CIVIL), NAAC – “A” Grade
DEPARTMENT OF CSE (AI & ML)
RAJANUKUNTE, BENGALURU 560 064, KARNATAKA
Phone: 080-28468191/96/97/ E-mail: [email protected] * URL www.saividya.ac.in

MODULE 3
1. Differentiate between Hard link & symbolic link. Explain the following API Open, read , write, create,
lseek, fcntl. July/Aug 2022, Jan/Feb 2023
2. Describe the Memory Layout of C program with a neat diagram and explain Memory Allocation API’s with
their prototype. July/Aug 2022, Jan/Feb 2021, Jan/Feb 2023
3. Explain getrlimit() and setrlimit() functions with an example C program. July/Aug 2022, Jan/Feb 2021
4. Discuss how C program is started and terminated in various ways along with suitable diagram. June/July
2023
5. Write C program using setjmp and longjmp to show there effects on various variables. Feb/March 2022,
6. Explain exec function with program. Feb/March 2022
7. Explain setuid and setgid functions with example and expalin various ways to change user ids. June/July
2023, Jan/Feb 2021.
8. Explain setjmp and longjmp functions with example. Jan/Feb 2023

MODULE 4
1. What is FIFO? Explain Client-Server communication using FIFO. July/Aug 2022

2. Explain and differentiate between fork and vfork system call with an example C program. July/Aug 2022

3. What are pipes, Write a program to send data from parent to child using pipe API and also list its limitations.
July/Aug 2022, Jan/Feb 2023, June/July 2023

4. Define semaphores and explain how the IPC is implemented using various semaphores API. Jan/Feb 2022,
Jan/Feb 2023

5. What is FIFO? Explain Client-Server communication using FIFO. July/Aug 2022, Jan/Feb 2021,

6. Explain wait() and waitpid() API with their prototype. Mention the difference between wait and waitpid API.
June/July 2023

7. Explain popen and pclose function with example.

8. Explain the implementation of shared memory IPC mechanism with all its API and their prototypes. Jan/Feb
2023

9. Define Message Queue. Discuss how it is useful in IPC. Feb/March 2022

 MODULE 5
1. Discuss how error logging is done by daemon process with suitable example. Feb/ March 2022, June/ July
2023

2. Discuss the working of sigprocmask API. Explain all parameters of API with Progra. Feb/ March 2022

3. What is Daemon Process? Explain codeing rules and error logging. Feb/ March 2022

4. Explain the prototype of following APIs: Feb/ March 2022

i. Signal ii. Kill iii. alarm iv. sigaction.

5. Explain how kill API is used for sending a signal to a process and explain the implementation of sleep API
using alarm API. Jan/Feb 2023

6. Explain kill and alarm API. July/Aug 2022

7. Define signal. Explain Sigaction API with demonstrating program. July/Aug 2022

8. Explain sigsetjmp and siglongjmp API functions with an example. Jan/Feb 2021
Sri Sai Vidya Vikas Shikshana Samithi ®
SAI VIDYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Approved by AICTE, New Delhi, affiliated to VTU, Recognized by Govt. of Karnataka
Accredited by NBA, New Delhi (CSE, ECE. ISE, MECH & CIVIL), NAAC – “A” Grade
DEPARTMENT OF CSE (AI & ML)
RAJANUKUNTE, BENGALURU 560 064, KARNATAKA
Phone: 080-28468191/96/97/ E-mail: [email protected] * URL www.saividya.ac.in