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The GTU theory examination carries 70 total marks with a duration of 2.5 Hours. Minimum passing criteria is 23 marks (33%). The paper consists of 5 main questions with official marking breakdown and internal choices.

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Gujarat Technological UniversitySummer 2025 examination

GTU 3160715 System Software Summer 2025 Question Paper & PDF

B.E. · Computer Engineering · Semester 6 · Subject code 3160715

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Total: 70 marks
To pass: 23 marks (33%)
Duration: 2.5 Hours 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Questions: 5 with internal choice

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10 of 25 questions on this paper were also asked in other years. 4 more are types of question GTU sets again with new data. Each is marked below with the years it appeared.See all 21 repeated 3160715 questions, most asked first

Q.1

14 Marks

(a)

3 marks

Define following:

1)Specification Gap

2)Language Processor

3)Language Migrator

(b)

4 marksAsked in 2 of 4 papers

Differentiate Problem Oriented Languages and Procedure Oriented Languages.

Also asked in Summer 2026 Q5b OR

(c)

7 marks

Describe System Software Development with appropriate diagram.

Q.2

14 Marks

(a)

3 marksSame type asked in 3 of 4 papers

Define Left Recursion. Remove Left Recursion from the following

grammar:

A → A x | A y | A B | c | d

B → e

Also asked in Summer 2026 Q3a, Summer 2024 Q2a

(b)

4 marksSame type asked in 2 of 4 papers

Construct LL(1) Parsing table for the following grammar:

S → aAC | Bb

A → eD

B → f | g

C → h | i

D → bE | ε

E → eD | dD

Also asked in Summer 2024 Q2b

(c)

7 marksAsked in 2 of 4 papers

Explain advanced assembler directives with suitable example.

Also asked in Summer 2026 Q2c

(c)

7 marksSame type asked in 2 of 4 papers

Consider following assembly language program:

i)Write equivalent machine code

ii)Write Intermediate code using Variant-I representation. START 200 READ A READ B MOVER BREG, A MULT BREG, B MOVEM BREG, C STOP A DS 1 B DS 1 C DS 1 END

Also asked in Summer 2024 Q3c, Summer 2024 Q3c OR

Q.3

14 Marks

(a)

3 marks

Write a macro with parameters A, B, C and D.

Calculate A * B + C * D in AREG.

(b)

4 marksAsked in 2 of 4 papers

Explain nested macro call with example.

Also asked in Winter 2025 Q3b

(c)

7 marks

Explain expansion time loops in macro.

(a)

3 marksAsked in 2 of 4 papers

Compare features of subroutine and macro.

Also asked in Winter 2025 Q3c

(b)

4 marks

Explain positional parameter, keyword parameter and default value parameter.

(c)

7 marksAsked in 3 of 4 papers

Explain expansion time statements AIF, AGO and ANOP.

Also asked in Summer 2026 Q5b, Summer 2024 Q1c

Q.4

14 Marks

(a)

3 marks

Compare loader and linker.

(b)

4 marksAsked in 2 of 4 papers

Explain Bootstrap loader.

Also asked in Summer 2026 Q5a OR

(c)

7 marksAsked in 2 of 4 papers

What is Overlay? Explain the execution of an overlay structured program.

Also asked in Summer 2026 Q5a

(a)

3 marks

Explain Compile-and-Go loader.

(b)

4 marks

Consider an object module with three programs A, B and C, located at following addresses: Program Address A 200-250 B 302-370 C 480-533 The load address is 300 for the executable A, B and C to be generated. Find:

i)Size of each Program

ii)Load origin of each program

iii)Relocation Factor for each Program

(c)

7 marksAsked in 4 of 4 papers

Explain self-relocating program.

Also asked in Summer 2026 Q4a, Winter 2025 Q4b OR, Summer 2024 Q4b OR

Q.5

14 Marks

(a)

3 marks

Explain analysis phase of an assembler.

(b)

4 marksSame type asked in 3 of 4 papers

Write quadruple representation for the following expression:

Result = -w * x + -y * z

Also asked in Winter 2025 Q5c, Summer 2024 Q5c

(c)

7 marksAsked in 4 of 4 papers

Explain pure and impure interpreters.

Also asked in Summer 2026 Q5c, Winter 2025 Q5b, Summer 2024 Q5b OR

(a)

3 marks

Compare one pass assembler and two pass assemblers.

(b)

4 marks

Describe static binding and dynamic binding.

(c)

7 marksAsked in 2 of 4 papers

Describe JVM with appropriate diagram.

Also asked in Summer 2026 Q4b OR

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