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Previous Year Question Paper

CY-501 (GS) – OS Internals for Security Support

June 2025•CSCY•SEMESTER-5
June 2025
Max Marks: 70
Duration: 3 Hours
Instructions:

• Attempt any five questions.

• All questions carry equal marks.

• In case of any doubt or dispute the English version question should be treated as final.

Q.1
a)Unit 1

What is the role of buffer pool and buffer header? Explain in detail.

b)Unit 1

Explain the concept of INODES in UNIX like file system.

Q.2
a)Unit 1

What is the importance of CHMOD and CHOWN in operating system?

b)Unit 2

Explain the mechanism of process creation in Unix operating system.

Q.3
a)Unit 2

What are the effects of privilege escalation vulnerabilities?

b)Unit 2

Explain the disadvantages of concurrency in operating system.

Q.4
a)Unit 3

How Operating system protects our data? Explain the process.

b)Unit 4

What are the different virtualization techniques used for the security implementation?

Q.5
a)Unit 3

Define the following terms: -Virus, Worms, Root Kit.

b)Unit 3

Define Honeypot. Explain the procedure through which honeypot can be used for the protection against cyber-attacks.

Q.6
a)Unit 3

What are the different methods through which we can protect our data from ransomed attacks?

b)Unit 4

What does mobile phone operating system contain that or may be vulnerable to different attacks?

Q.7
a)Unit 4

Explain the following terms: Secure co-processors, Secure wallet

b)Unit 5

Define Socket and its types.

Q.8
a)Unit 5

Explain the architecture of Windows operating system in detail.

b)Unit 5

What is the use of Winsock? What are the different types of Winsock function?