Ques 1.

Explain two approaches used to improve system performance by overlapping input, output and processing in CPU

Ques 2.

Explain the characteristics of multiprocessor operating system.

Ques 3.

What is Token Ring? How does it work? Differentiate between token ring and token bu

Ques 4.

What is meant by Trust Relationship? Discuss the role of Kerberos and Domain controller in maintaining trust relationships.

Ques 5.

Describe the pre-installation checks and information gathering that need to be carried out before installing LINUX on a computer

Ques 6.

Differentiate between absolute and relative path names, along with an example of each.

Ques 7.

Answer the following questions related to Linux commands:

Ques 8.

Is desired to create a file in LINUX called "newfile" that consists of the last 15 lines of a file "filer followed by the last 6 lines of a file "file2". Both "filet" and "file2" already exist. Write the sequence of commands in LINUX to achieve this

Ques 9.

Write the LINUX command to change the password of a user called "SOCIS" to "E93df!kN#". Who can run this command?

Ques 10.

Write the LINUX command to find the number of users currently logged into the system?

Ques 11.

Write the LINUX command to take a text file named "source-file" as input and circularly shift every small case letter forward by 5 characters, such that "a" becomes "f", "z" becomes "e" and so on, but "A", "3", "$" and other such characters are left unchanged.

Ques 12.

What is the Active Directory in Windows 2000? Describe, with the help of a diagram, the logical structure of the Active Directory

Ques 13.

Differentiate the role and responsibilities of user mode and kernel mode of Windows 2000 system

Ques 14.

Write a shell script which will generate the list of users along with details of files those are created /modified by the respective user during the specified time.

Ques 15.

Differentiate between LAN, MAN and WAN in terms of size, protocols, access mechanism, hardware devices and switching methods.

Ques 16.

What are the security services provided by IPsec? Discuss the two IPsec components in WINDOWS 2000. Also explain the policy options for IPsec implementation.

Ques 17.

List and describe various security features in WINDOWS 2000 O/S.

Ques 18.

NTFS

Ques 19.

Packet switching

Ques 20.

EFS services

Ques 21.

Firewall