GATE CSE Operating System syllabus

Processes, concurrency, scheduling, memory management and file systems.

About Operating System in GATE CSE

The GATE CSE 2027 syllabus lists 6 topics under Operating System.

It is one of the 9 subjects that together carry 72 of the 100 marks (Computer Science subjects). General Aptitude adds 15 marks and is common to every paper. The exam has 65 questions (MCQ, MSQ and NAT) in 3 hours.

See the full GATE CSE syllabus for every subject and the marks distribution.

Operating System topics

System calls, processes and threads
Inter-process communication, concurrency and synchronization
Deadlock
CPU and I/O scheduling
Memory management and virtual memory
File systems

Operating System PYQs & weightage

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GATE CSE previous year questions (PYQs) on Operating System, with answers and topic-wise weightage, will appear here as they are published.