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The document contains a 23 question quiz on operating system concepts for a course at JSS Academy of Technical Education in Bangalore, India. The quiz covers topics like processes, process states, scheduling, queues, context switching, and interprocess communication. It tests understanding of key concepts like process control blocks, ready queues, short term vs long term scheduling, and the difference between blocking and ready states.

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The document contains a 23 question quiz on operating system concepts for a course at JSS Academy of Technical Education in Bangalore, India. The quiz covers topics like processes, process states, scheduling, queues, context switching, and interprocess communication. It tests understanding of key concepts like process control blocks, ready queues, short term vs long term scheduling, and the difference between blocking and ready states.

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JSS Academy of Technical Education , Bangalore

Department of Computer Science & Engg

QUIZ

Course: Operating System[17CS64]

Semester: VI CSE ‘C’

Faculty: N.Snehalatha

1. The systems which allow only one process execution at a time, are called __________
a) uniprogramming systems
b) uniprocessing systems
c) unitasking systems
d) none of the mentioned
2. In operating system, each process has its own __________
a) address space and global variables
b) open files
c) pending alarms, signals and signal handlers
d) all of the mentioned
3. In Unix, Which system call creates the new process?
a) fork
b) create
c) new
d) none of the mentioned
4. A process can be terminated due to __________
a) normal exit
b) fatal error
c) killed by another process
d) all of the mentioned
5.  What is the ready state of a process?
a) when process is scheduled to run after some execution
b) when process is unable to run until some task has been completed
c) when process is using the CPU
d) none of the mentioned
6. What is interprocess communication?
a) communication within the process
b) communication between two process
c) communication between two threads of same process
d) none of the mentioned
7. A set of processes is deadlock if __________
a) each process is blocked and will remain so forever
b) each process is terminated
c) all processes are trying to kill each other
d) none of the mentioned
8. A process stack does not contain __________
a) Function parameters
b) Local variables
c) Return addresses
d) PID of child process
9. A Process Control Block(PCB) does not contain which of the following?
a) Code
b) Stack
c) Bootstrap program
d) Data
10. The number of processes completed per unit time is known as __________
a) Output
b) Throughput
c) Efficiency
d) Capacity
11. The state of a process is defined by __________
a) the final activity of the process
b) the activity just executed by the process
c) the activity to next be executed by the process
d) the current activity of the process
12.  Which of the following is not the state of a process?
a) New
b) Old
c) Waiting
d) Running
13. What is a Process Control Block?
a) Process type variable
b) Data Structure
c) A secondary storage section
d) A Block in memory
14. What is the degree of multiprogramming?
a) the number of processes executed per unit time
b) the number of processes in the ready queue
c) the number of processes in the I/O queue
d) the number of processes in memory
15. A single thread of control allows the process to perform __________
a) only one task at a time
b) multiple tasks at a time
c) only two tasks at a time
d) all of the mentioned
16. What is the objective of multiprogramming?
a) Have some process running at all times
b) Have multiple programs waiting in a queue ready to run
c) To minimize CPU utilization
d) None of the mentioned
17. Which of the following do not belong to queues for processes?
a) Job Queue
b) PCB queue
c) Device Queue
d) Ready Queue
18. When the process issues an I/O request __________
a) It is placed in an I/O queue
b) It is placed in a waiting queue
c) It is placed in the ready queue
d) It is placed in the Job queue
19. What is a long-term scheduler?
a) It selects which process has to be brought into the ready queue
b) It selects which process has to be executed next and allocates CPU
c) It selects which process to remove from memory by swapping
d) None of the mentioned
20.  If all processes I/O bound, the ready queue will almost always be ______ and the Short
term Scheduler will have a ______ to do.
a) full, little
b) full, lot
c) empty, little
d) empty, lot
21. What is a medium-term scheduler?
a) It selects which process has to be brought into the ready queue
b) It selects which process has to be executed next and allocates CPU
c) It selects which process to remove from memory by swapping
d) None of the mentioned
22. The primary distinction between the short term scheduler and the long term scheduler is
__________
a) The length of their queues
b) The type of processes they schedule
c) The frequency of their execution
d) None of the mentioned
23. Suppose that a process is in “Blocked” state waiting for some I/O service. When the service
is completed, it goes to the __________
a) Running state
b) Ready state
c) Suspended state
d) Terminated state

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