MODEL PAPER
THIRD SEMESTER, M. Sc INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Paper - IV (MIT - 304): UNIX System Administrations and Programming

1. Question.
1. Explain structure of UNIX-OS? (Including block diagram for kernel structure, File system tree and process environment).
2. Write shell script to count total number of lines in the file specified as command line and display the file having max. length?
3. Write short note on: -
   1. LILO and GRUB boot loaders.
   2. Process states and scheduling.
   3. NICE and RENICE values.
2. Question.
1. Explain the mounting and unmounting of file system?
2. Give examples for chmod, chgrp, chown and umask commands?
3. Justify purpose of: -
   1. /etc/passwd file
   2. freebsd/login.cong file
   3. Shadow password file
3. Question.

Briefly explain: -
1. Connectors and I/O ports
2. Periodic processes
3. Dumping file system and restoring
4. SCSI and IDE interfaces
4. Question.

Compare: -
1. IPv4 and IPv6 addressing
2. Solaris and Linux network configuration
3. Various routing protocols
5. Question.
1. How DNS works and who needs DNS?
2. Explain server side and client side NFS.
3. How NIS+ and LDAP work?
6. Question.
1. Give configuration for SENDMAIL and Apache.
2. What is the role of ping, trace route, sniffers in network management?
7. Question.
1. What do you understand by SYSLOG and LOG files?
2. How do you configure Solaris and Linux?
3. Give various printer commands and performance analysis.
8. Question.

Write Short note on: -
1. TCP and UDP sockets
2. Network device drivers programming
3. TCP client server examples.