Operating System Unit 2 – Concurrent Processes: important questions for AKTU
Unit 2 (Concurrent Processes) questions that AKTU repeats most often. This unit carries about 23 marks per paper. Start with the repeated questions, then the most asked topics.
Most repeated Unit 2 questions
- Define the Critical Section Problem and list the conditions that a solution must satisfy. (7 marks, 2025, Mutual Exclusion) – also asked in 2018, 2019, 2022, 2024
- Explain the challenges of achieving mutual exclusion in concurrent programming? (7 marks, 2024, Mutual Exclusion) – also asked in 2018, 2019, 2022
- Explain dinning philosopher problem and its solution using semaphore. (10 marks, 2023, Classical Concurrency Problems) – also asked in 2019, 2022
Most important Unit 2 topic
- Mutual Exclusion (Unit 2: Concurrent Processes) – asked 8 times in 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Most asked Unit 2 topics
- Mutual Exclusion – asked 8 times
- Process Concept and Concurrency – asked 6 times
- Semaphores and Test Set – asked 4 times
More Unit 2 previous year questions
- What is the difference between a process and a program? (2 marks, 2025, Process Concept and Concurrency)
- In a Producer-Consumer system, the buffer size is 4. If Producer produces 6 items and Consumer consumes 3, find the number of items in the buffer at the end. (2 marks, 2025, Process Concept and Concurrency)
- A process executes the following code: fork(); fork(); fork(); How many processes are created in total, including the original? (2 marks, 2025, Inter Process Communication)
- Discuss the limitations of Dekker's and Peterson's solutions when applied to modern multiprocessor architectures. (7 marks, 2025, Mutual Exclusion)
- Define the principle of concurrency? (2 marks, 2024, Process Concept and Concurrency)
Unit 2 syllabus topics
- Process Concept and Concurrency
- Mutual Exclusion
- Semaphores and Test Set
- Classical Concurrency Problems
- Inter Process Communication