System Software Question Bank

SYSTEMS SOFTWARE (10MCA31)

INTERNAL I QUESTION BANK

ASSIGNMENTS FOR SOLUTIONS

1.         1. Define System software. Name any 5 kinds of System software. (Sameer Dhinda)

2.    Give at least 2 features of RISC and CISC machines. What do RISC & CISC stand for? Give one example of both machine architectures. (Piyush Kumar & Vivek Pal)

3.    List 5 parameters on which two machine architectures can be compared. Explain any two of those methods briefly. (Prathima)

4.    Explain the working of a 2-Pass Assembler. (Krunal Patel)

5.    Write the basic structure of any Lex program. (Mallikarjuna)

6.    With a diagram, describe the role of the Loader and Linker in assembling a program. (Sunitha)

7.    Differentiate between System software and Application software. (Swetha)

8.    With a diagram, describe the different phases of Program Compilation. (Rithesh)

9.    Describe briefly the Machine-dependent features for an Absolute loader. (Amit Kumar – 04)

10.                      With an example, explain Program Linking. (Ashok N B)

11.                      Write a short note on Macroprocessors. (Akshay H V)

12.                      Explain how forward references are handled in a Multi-pass Assembler. (Manoj)

13.                      Write a short note on the data structures used with an Assembler.  (Nabanita)

14.                      Using a diagram, describe the Assembling process of a Source program into Object code. (Shashank)

15.                      Describe in detail the roles of the two data structures in a 2-pass Assembler. (Kailash)

16.                      Write a Lex program to count the number of Printf and Scanf statements
and replace the Printf by Write and Scanf by Read statements. (Deepthi)