Assignment #2

Chapter 3

1. What is a process?

2. Illustrate using diagram and briefly describe Structure of Process in Memory?

3. Illustrate using diagram and briefly describe Process States?

4. Illustrate using diagram and briefly describe Process Control Block (PCB)?

5. Illustrate using diagram CPU Switch from Process to Process.

6. What is process scheduler?

7. Illustrate using diagram and briefly describe Scheduling Queues?

8. Write a short note about Schedulers and their types.

9. Compare between Long-term scheduler and Short-term scheduler.

10. Compare between I/O-bound process and CPU-bound process.

11. Briefly describe Context Switch

12. Illustrate using diagram and briefly describe Process Creation operation.

13. Illustrate using diagram and briefly Interprocess Communication using Shared memory and Message passing.

14. Compare between Direct Communication and Indirect Communication.

15. Compare between blocking or non-blocking Message passing.

16. Briefly describe Sockets

17. Define Remote Procedure Calls

Chapter 4

18. What is a thread?

19. Compare between Single and Multithreaded Processes

20. List Benefits of Multithreaded

21. Compare between Single and Multi-core

22. What are the Programming Challenges for Multithreaded?

23. List three primary thread libraries

24. Compare between the four Multithreading Models