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CSWE 3104 Advanced Operating Systems Exam 2026

CSWE 3104: Professional B-Tech First Semester Examinations 2025/2026 Session, HIBMAT University Institute of Buea, under the mentorship of the University of Bamenda, Option SWE/CNSM/EDM/CS, Instructors Mr Ramson Ofon / Mr Ngolah: Section A, four questions on short-term/medium-term/long-term CPU scheduling, issues and remedies for partition-based memory management (fragmentation, paging, segmentation), the operation and trade-offs of paging, and a file-management-system design exercise (use case and directory structure); Section B, two 15-mark scenario questions on choosing a suitable partition technique for a given set of memory blocks and processes, and recommending a memory management technique for a cloud-based application with variable demand and resource constraints.

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HUIB (HIBMAT) Buea

Engineering & Technology

Computer & Communications Engineering

CSWE31042026

Advanced Operating Systems

Exam · First Semester · Level 400

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Discuss the key differences between short-term, medium-term, and long-term schedulers in process management. Provide examples of when each scheduler is primarily used in an operating system. (4mks)
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What are the issues associated with partition-based memory management, such as fragmentation and inefficient memory utilization? Discuss the techniques that have been developed to address these problems, including examples like paging, and segmentation. (4mks)