OPERATING SYSTEM

This page collects 91 operating system questions taken from 4 BEU semester 4 papers, 2019 to 2024 — about 23 questions in a typical paper. They are sorted into the 7 modules of the syllabus, so you can revise a topic across every year at once instead of working through papers one at a time.

What these papers actually ask

Module 2: Processes is the heaviest module in this archive at 33% of every question recorded, and it has come up in all 4 papers. Together with Module 5: Memory Management, the two account for 58% of the archive.

5 modules have appeared in all 4 papers — Module 2: Processes, Module 5: Memory Management, Module 4: Deadlocks, Module 6: File Management, Module 3: Inter-process Communication. A module that turns up every year is a safer use of revision time than one with the same question count concentrated in a single paper.

How the marks are split

Questions in this archive carry 6 different mark values. The most common is the 7-mark question, with 40 of them recorded — worth knowing before you decide how much depth to practise at.