OS MCQS

1. Where the Paging is implemented ……

(a) Software
(b) Operating System
(c) Hardware
(d) B and C
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
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c
2. Which one of the following is not true about Kernel?
(a) The kernel is made of various modules which can not be loaded in the
running operating system
(b) Kernel remains in the memory during the entire computer session
(c) the kernel is the program that constitutes the central core of the operating
system
(d) the kernel is the first part of the operating system to load into
memory during booting
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
Answer - Click Here:
a
3. The page fault is the ……
(a) error in a specific page
(b) Reference to a page belonging to another program
(c) Access to a page not currently in memory
(d) When a program is not currently in memory
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
Answer - Click Here:
c
4. Which one of the following does not allow the approach to
Deadlocks Handling?
(a) Detect & Recover
(b) Virtual Memory
(c) Deadlock Prevention
(d) Deadlock Avoidance
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
Answer - Click Here:
b
5. What do you mean by “Operating System”?
(a) Link to interface the hardware and application programs
(b) system service provider to the application programs
(c) collection of programs that manages hardware resources
(d) C and D
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
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6. What is the initial value of the Semaphore that allows only one of
the many processes to enter their critical sections?
(a) 0
(b) 16
(c) 1
(d) 8
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
Answer - Click Here:
c
7. In which one of the following the Memory allocation policy allocates
the largest hole to the process?
(a) Worst-Fit
(b) First-Fit
(c) Best-Fit
(d) C and D
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
Answer - Click Here:
a
8. What is the main function of the command interpreter?
(a) To handle the files in the operating system
(b) to provide the interface between the API and application program
(c) To get and execute the next user-specified command
(d) A and D
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
Answer - Click Here:
c
9. How we can describe the Algorithm?
(a) A step by step procedure for solving a problem
(b) A branch of mathematics
(c) A computer language
(d) C and A
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
Answer - Click Here:
a
10. Which of the following is also known as the Chunks memory?
(a) Page
(b) Frame
(c) Sector
(d) Offset
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
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b
11. Which one of the given above is not a real-time operating system?
(a) Palm OS
(b) Windows CE
(c) VxWorks
(d) RTLinux
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
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a
12. Which one of the following is a Block device?
(a) Disk
(b) Terminals
(c) Printer
(d) Mouse
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
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a
1. Which one of the following resources are always be protected by
the operating system?
(a) CPU
(b) I/O
(c) Memory
(d) B and A
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
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c
2. In which of the following multiplexing, Resource management can
be done?
(a) Space division multiplexing
(b) Multiplexer
(c) Time-division multiplexing
(d) A and C
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
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d
3. In the following software types which one is used to simplify using
Systems software?
(a) Timesharing
(b) Operating environment
(c) Spreadsheet
(d) Multitasking
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
Answer - Click Here:
a
4. Where the operating system keeps the information of files in a table?
(a) Directory Index Table
(b) File Allocation Table
(c) File Index Table
(d) File Folder Table
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
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b
5. Which one of the following Scheduling algorithm allocates the CPU
first to the process that requests the CPU first?
(a) Priority scheduling
(b) Shortest job scheduling
(c) First-come, first-served scheduling
(d) D and A
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
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c
6. Where the Job Control Language (JCL) statements are used to?
(a) Specify, to the operating system, the beginning and end of a job in a
batch
(b) Allocate the CPU to a job
(c) Read the input from the slow-speed card reader to the high-speed
magnetic disk
(d) C and D
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
Answer - Click Here:
a
7. How can you define Time Quantum in the following above?
(a) the multilevel queue scheduling algorithm
(b) priority scheduling algorithm
(c) shortest job scheduling algorithm
(d) round-robin scheduling algorithm
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
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d
8. Which one of the following does not belong to Documentation?
(a) Documentation increases the maintenance time and cost
(b) The documentation gives a better understanding of the problem
(c) Documentation, of a system, should be as clear and direct as possible
(d) C and D
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
Answer - Click Here:d
9. What does the Priority scheduling algorithm do?
(a) Equal priority processes can not be scheduled
(b) CPU is allocated to the process with the lowest priority
(c) CPU is allocated to the process with the highest priority
(d) B and A
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
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c
10. Which of the following is belong to Scheduling?
(a) Unrelated to performance consideration
(b) Not required in uniprocessor systems
(c) Allowing jobs to use the processor
(d) The same regardless of the purpose of the system
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
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c
11. When a system is in a Safe-state?
(a) Safe sequence
(b) Safe allocation
(c) Safe resource
(d) C and D
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
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a
12. How many processes are involved in the sharing of common data
(Dekker’s algorithm implements mutual exclusion)?
(a) 4
(b) 12
(c) 1
(d) 2
(e) All of these
(f) None of these
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D
LINUX MCQ’s
1. What is the core of Linux operating system?
a) command
b) terminal
c) kernel
d) shell
e) none of these
Answer - Click Here:
C
2. Which command is used to remove the files?
a) delete
b) erase
c) dm
d) rm
e) none of these
Answer - Click Here:
D
3. Which of the following command is used to check Linux version?
a) kernel
b) uname -a
c) uname -n
d) uname -s
e) none of these
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B
4. Which command is used with vi editor to delete a single character?
a) y
b) z
c) a
d) x
e) none of these
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D
5. Which command is used to create file in Linux?
a) echo
b) touch
c) cat
d) none of these
e) all the these
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E
6. Which of the following linux operating system supports?
a) all of the above
b) multi User
c) multi Process
d) multi-Tasking
e) none of these
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A
7. Which service is used to translate domain names to IP addresses?
a) DNS
b) NFS
c) SMB
d) NIS
e) none of the these
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A
8. Which command do you use to create Linux file systems?
a) mount
b) mkfs
c) fdisk
d) fsck
e) none of the these
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B
9. Which is not a communication command?
a) write
b) mesg
c) grep
d) mail
e)none of the these
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C
10. Which command is used to display the characteristics of a process?
a) du
b) pid
c) au
d) ps
e)none of the these
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D
11. Which command is used to sort the lines of data in a file in alphabetical
order?
a) sort
b) sort – r
c) st
d) sh
e) none of the above
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A
12. What server is used with the BIND package?
a) dns
b) named
c) shttp
d) httpd
e) none of the these
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B
1. Algorithm of splitting m frames into n processes for giving equal share the m/n frames is
known as :
A. split allocation algorithm
B. equal allocation algorithm
C. proportional allocation algorithm
D. none of these
E. All of the above
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B
2. The layer between the hardware and the user program is
A. Operating environment
B. System environment
C. Operating system
D. None
E. All of the above
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C
3. Which of the following is the main function of the command interpreter?
A. to handle the files in the operating system
B. to provide the interface between the API and application program
C. to get and execute the next user-specified command
D. none of the above
E. All of the above
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C
4. Allocation of memory to each process according to its size is known as :
A. proportional allocation algorithm
B. split allocation algorithm
C. equal allocation algorithm
D. none of the above
E. All of the above
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A
5. ___________________ is built directly on the hardware.
A. Computer Environment
B. Application Software
C. Database System
D. Operating System
E. None
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D
6. The resource management can be done in an operating system via
A. space division multiplexing
B. both time and space division multiplexing
C. time division multiplexing
D. none
E. All of the above
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B
7. A high priority process is treated ___________ a low priority process, With either equal
or proportional algorithm.
A. lesser than
B. greater than
C. same as
D. none
E. All of the above
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C
8. _________________ Operating System does not implement multitasking.
A. Windows XP
B. Windows NT
C. Windows 98
D. MS DOS
E. None
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D
9. When a process fails, most OS write the error information to a ______
a) new file
b) another running process
c) log file
d) none
E. All of the above
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A
10. Which replacement allows a process to select a replacement frame from the set of all
frames, even if the frame is currently allocated to some other process?
a) Local
b) Global
c) Universal
d) Localx
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B
11. A platform for other software to run on is called ______________
A. Operating System
B. System Software
C. Application Software
D. All
E. None
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A
12. ____________________ facility, both in user processes and in the kernel, dynamically
adds probes to a running system.
A. DLocate
B. DAdd
C. DMap
D. DTrace
E. None
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D
Set 2

operating system is______?

A. link that is to interface the hardware and application programs
B. Both A & B
C. collection of programs that manages hardware resources
D. all of the mentioned
E. system service provider to the application programs

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D
The interface to access the services of the operating system is provided
by_______
A. Assembly instructions
B. API
C. Library
D. System calls
E. Both A & C
F. None of these
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D
Which one is not true from the following?
A. kernel is made of various modules which can not be loaded in running
operating system
B. During booting, the kernel is the first part of the operating system to load into memory
C. kernel is the program that constitutes the central core of the operating
system
D. During the entire computer session kernel remains in the memory
E. Both A & B
F. None of these
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A
By the operating system which one error will be handled from the following?

A. connection failure in the network

B. power failure
C. all of the mentioned
D. lack of paper in the printer
E. Both A & B
F. None of these

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C
The command interpreter in The main function is ______
A. to handle the files in the operating system
B. to get and execute the next user-specified command
C. to provide the interface between the API and application program
D. none of the mentioned
E. both A & B
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C
The resource management can be done by operating system via_______
A. both time and space division multiplexing
B. space division multiplexing
C. time-division multiplexing
D. none of the mentioned
E. Both A & B
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A
In the most operating system if a process fails it write the error information
to a?
A. new file
B. another running process
C. log file
B. none of the mentioned
E. Both C & A

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C
In both user processes and in the kernel which facility dynamically adds
probes to a running system?
A. DMap
B. DLocate
C. Both A & B
D. DTrace
E. DAdd
F. None of these

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D
Which one is not a real-time operating system from the following?
A. Palm OS
B. Windows CE
C. VxWorks
D. RTLinux
E. Both A & C
F. None of these
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A
10.________ OS X has?
A. monolithic kernel with modules
B. microkernel
C. hybrid kernel
D. monolithic kernel
E. Both B & D
F. None of these

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C
The systems that allow only one process execution at a time is_______
A. unitasking systems
B. uniprogramming systems
C. uniprocessing systems
D. Both A & C
E. none of the mentioned
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C
Each process has its own______ In the operating system
A. open files
B. pending alarms, signals and signal handlers
C. Both A & B
D. address space and global variables
E. all of the mentioned
F. None of these
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E
The new process In Unix created by which system call?
A. create
B. new
C. fork
D. none of the mentioned
E. Both B & C
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C
Termination of a process can be due to?
A. fatal error
B. killed by another process
C. normal exit
D. Both B & C
E. all of the mentioned above
F. None of these

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E
The ready state of a process is _________?
A. when a process is using the CPU
B. when a process is scheduled to run after some execution
C., when a process is unable to run until some task, has been completed
D. Both A & C
E. none of the mentioned
Interprocess communication is____?
A. communication between two process
B. communication between two threads of the same process
C. communication within the process
D. none of the mentioned
E. Both A & C

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A
Processes is deadlock if _______
A. all processes are trying to kill each other
B. each process is terminated
C. each process is blocked and will remain so forever
D. Both A & B
E. none of the mentioned

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C
Which of the following a process stack does not contain
A. Local variables
B. Function parameters
C.Both A & B
D. Return addresses
E. PID of a child process
F. None of these
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E
Of a terminated child which system call returns the process identifier?
A. exit
B. Both B & D
C. fork
D. wait
E. get
F. None of these
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D
______ will provide the address of the next instruction that is to be executed
by the current process
A. Program counter
B. CPU registers
C. Both A & B
D. Process stack
E. Pipe
F. None of these

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A
______ of the following a Process Control Block(PCB) does not contain:
A. Stack
B. Code
C. Both B & D
D. Bootstrap program
E. Data
F. None of these

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D
15. The number of processes completed per unit time is called _______
A. Capacity
B. Output
c. Both A & B
D. Throughput
e. Efficiency
F. None of these

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D
Answer: d
The state of a process is¬¬¬_______:
A. the current activity of the process
B. the final activity of the process
C. the activity just executed by the process
D. Both A & D
E. the activity to next be executed by the process
F. None of these
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D
Which is not the state of a process of the following?
A. New
B.Waiting
C. Both A & B
D. Old
E. Running
F. None of these

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D
______ is the Process Control Block :
A. Data Structure
B. Process type variable
C. Both A & B
D. A secondary storage section
E. A Block in memory
F. None of these
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A
In the current processes the entry of all the PCBs are in______
A. Program Counter
B. Process Register
C. Both A & D
D. Process Unit
E. Process Table
F. None of these

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E
_____is the degree of multiprogramming?
A. the number of processes in memory
B. the number of processes in the I/O queue
C. the number of processes executed per unit time
D. Both A & D
E. the number of processes in the ready queue
F. None of these
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B
Allows _______ process to perform a single thread of control
A. multiple tasks at a time
B. only two tasks at a time
C. Both A & B
D. only one task at a time
E. all of the mentioned
F. None of these

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D
____ is the objective of multiprogramming?
A. Have multiple programs waiting in a queue ready to run
B. Have some process running at all times
C. Both A & D
D. To minimize CPU utilization
E. None of the mentioned

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B
_______ do not belong to queues for processes of the following?
A. Job Queue
B. Device Queue
C. Both D & E
D. PCB queue
E. Ready Queue
F. None of these

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D
_______ I/O request when the process issues?
A. It is placed in the Job queue
B. It is placed in a waiting queue
C. Both A & D
D. It is placed in an I/O queue
E. It is placed in the ready queue
F. None of these

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D
A process terminates when_____:
A. It is removed from all, but the job queue
B. Its process control block is never de-allocated
C. Both B & E
D. Its process control block is de-allocated
E. It is removed from all queues
F. None of these

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E
Long-term scheduler is____ ?
A. It selects which process has to be executed next and allocates CPU
B. It selects which process has to be brought into the ready queue
C. Both A & B
D. It selects which process to remove from memory by swapping
E. None of the mentioned
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B
Medium-term scheduler is ______ ?
A. It selects which process has to be executed next and allocates CPU
B. It selects which process has to be brought into the ready queue
C. Both B & D
D. It selects which process to remove from memory by swapping
E. None of the mentioned

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D
short-term scheduler is_____ ?
A. It selects which process to remove from memory by swapping
B. It selects which process has to be brought into the ready queue
C. Both A & D
D. It selects which process has to be executed next and allocates CPU
E. None of the mentioned

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D
In the short term and the long term scheduler the primary distinction
between is_____ :
A. The frequency of their execution
B. The length of their queues
C. The type of processes they schedule
D. Both A & B
F. None of the mentioned
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A
_______ is initiated by the user process itself in the only state transition:
A. wakeup
B. dispatch
C. block
D. Both A & C
E. none of the mentioned

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C
In multiprogramming environment ______ :
A. a single user can execute many programs at the same time
B. the processor executes more than one process at a time
C. Both B & D
D. the programs are developed by more than one person
E. more than one process resides in the memory

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E
In the PCB the context of a process does not contain :
A. memory-management information
B. the value of the CPU registers
C. the process state
D. Both B & D
E. context switch time

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E
______ does not interrupt a running process from the following?
A. Timer
B. A device
C. Both A & E
D. Scheduler process
E. Power failure
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D
in the system _______ process can be affected by other processes
executing?
A. child process
B. cooperating process
C. Both A & B
D. parent process
E. init process

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B
Which one is a synchronization tool of the following?
A. pipe
B. thread
C. socket
D. Both B & D
E. semaphore

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E
1. What Thrashing do with the CPU utilization?
A. decreases
B. increases
C. keeps constant
D. none
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A
2. Which operations an IPC facility provides?
A. write & delete message
B. receive & send message
C. delete & receive message
D. send & delete message
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B
3. Which system call creates the new process in UNIX operating system?
A. new
B. create
C. fork
D. none of the above
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C
4. What is meant by locality?
A. a set of pages that are actively used together
B. an area near a set of processes
C. a space in memory
D. none of these
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A
5. What is the size of the Messages sent by a process?
A. have to be a variable size
B. can be fixed or variable sized
C. have to be of a fixed size
D None of the mentioned
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B
6. How a process can be terminated? due to ___________.
A. killed by another process
B. fatal error
C. normal exit
D. All of the above
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D
7. When a subroutine is called,____________________
A. it does not define a new locality
B. it is in the same locality from where it was called
C. it defines a new locality
D. none of the mentioned
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8. What a link called when it sends and receives messages between two processes?
A. synchronization link
B. communication link
C. message-passing link
D. all of the mentioned
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B
9. _____________________is called ready state of a process,
A. when the process is unable to run until some task has been completed
B. when the process is scheduled to run after some execution
C. when the process is using the CPU
D. none of the mentioned
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B
10. A program is composed of many different localities, which _____ overlap.
A. must
B. must not
C. do not
D. may
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D
11. Which one is the TRUE statement for direct communication?
A. Exactly two links exists between each pair of processes
B. A communication link can be associated with N number of the process(N
= max. number of processes supported by the system)
C. Exactly N/2 links exist between each pair of processes(N = max. number
of processes supported by the system)
D. A communication link can be associated with exactly two processes
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D
12. ______________is called inter process communication.
A. communication between two threads of the same process
B. communication within the process
C. communication between two process
D. none of these
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C

1. In which replacement each process only select from its own set of
allocated frames?
A. Global
B. Universal
C. Public
D. Local
E. None
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D
2. What is the basic objective of an operating system is?
A. To make the most efficient use of the computer hardware
B. To keep systems programmers employed
C. To allow people to use the computer
D. To make computers easier to use
E. None
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A
3. _________________ is not a real time operating system.
A. VxWorks
B. Palm OS
C. RTLinux
D. Windows CE
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A
4. the global replacement algorithm has a problem that is :
A. many frames can be allocated to a process
B. it is very expensive
C. it is very expensive
D. a process cannot control its own page – fault rate
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D
5. Inter process communication allows the process to :
A. communicate and synchronize their actions when using the same address
space
B. only synchronize their actions without communication
C. communicate and synchronize their actions without using the same
address space
D. do nothing
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C
6. The OS X has _________
A. monolithic kernel
B. monolithic kernel with modules
C. micro kernel
D. hybrid kernel
E. No kernel
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D
7. Which of the following replacement generally results in greater
system throughput?
A. Local
B. Universal
C. Public
D. Global
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D
8. Message passing system allows processes to _________________.
A. share data
B. communicate with one another by resorting to shared data
C. communicate with one another without resorting to shared data
D. name the recipient or sender of the message
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C
9. One process execution at a time in a system, are called ___________
A. uni processing systems
B. uniprogramming systems
C. unitasking systems
D. none of the mentioned
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A
10. A process is thrashing if_____________________.
A. it has no memory allocated to it
B. it spends a lot of time paging, than executing
C. it spends a lot of time executing, rather than paging
D. none
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B
11. Which operations an IPC facility provides?
A. send & delete message
B. delete & receive message
C. receive & send message
D. write & delete message
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C
12. Each process has its own __________________ in operating
system,
A. pending alarms, signals and signal handlers
B. address space and global variables
C. open files
D. all of the above
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D
1. Who decided the minimum number of frames be allocated to a process?
A. operating System
B. the amount of available physical memory
C. instruction set architecture
D. none of the above
E. All of the above
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C
 

2. Which implementation is used to separate mechanism from the

policy in the operating system?
A. Two level implementation
B. Multi level implementation
C. Single level implementation
D. None
E. All of the above
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A
 

3. _____________ is called operating system?

A. link to interface the hardware and application programs
B. collection of programs that manages hardware resources
C. system service provider to the application programs
D. None
E. all of the above
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E
 

4. Before an executing instruction is complete a page fault occurs :

A. the instruction must be restarted
B. the instruction must be completed ignoring the page fault
C. the instruction must be ignored
D. none of these
E. All of the above
Answer - Click Here:
A
 

5. ___________________ is created by the operating system from the physical

computer.
A. Virtual device
B. Virtual computers
C. Virtual space
D. None
E. All of the above
Answer - Click Here:
B
 

6. Who provides an interface to access the services of the operating system?

A. Assembly instructions
B. Library
C. API
D. System calls
E. None
Answer - Click Here:
D
 

7. Suppose a machine in which all memory reference instructions have only

one memory address, How many frame(s) do we need?
A. three
B. two
C. one
D. none
Answer - Click Here:
B
 
8. Which of them shares characteristics with both hardware and software?
A. Operating system
B. Data
C. Software
D. None
E. All of the above
Answer - Click Here:
A
 

9. Which one is False?

A. kernel is the program that constitutes the central core of the operating
system
B. kernel is made of various modules which can not be loaded in running
operating system
C. kernel is the first part of the operating system to load into memory during
booting
D. kernel remains in the memory during the entire computer session
Answer - Click Here:
B
 

10. The maximum number of frames in a process is defined by :

A. operating System
B. instruction set architecture
C. the amount of available physical memory
D. none of the above
E. All of the above
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C
 

11. Multi programming systems _____________________.

A. Execute each job faster
B. Are used only one large mainframe computers.
C. Execute more jobs in the same time period
D. Are easier to develop than single programming systems
Answer - Click Here:
C
 

12. _______________________ error will be handle by the operating system.

A. power failure
B. connection failure in the network
C. lack of paper in printer
D. all of the above
Answer - Click Here:
D
1. What Thrashing do with the CPU utilization?
A. decreases
B. increases
C. keeps constant
D. none
Answer - Click Here:
A
2. Which operations an IPC facility provides?
A. write & delete message
B. receive & send message
C. delete & receive message
D. send & delete message
Answer - Click Here:
B
3. Which system call creates the new process in UNIX operating system?
A. new
B. create
C. fork
D. none of the above
Answer - Click Here:
C
4. What is meant by locality?
A. a set of pages that are actively used together
B. an area near a set of processes
C. a space in memory
D. none of these
Answer - Click Here:
A
5. What is the size of the Messages sent by a process?
A. have to be a variable size
B. can be fixed or variable sized
C. have to be of a fixed size
D None of the mentioned
Answer - Click Here:
B
6. How a process can be terminated? due to ___________.
A. killed by another process
B. fatal error
C. normal exit
D. All of the above
Answer - Click Here:
D
7. When a subroutine is called,____________________
A. it does not define a new locality
B. it is in the same locality from where it was called
C. it defines a new locality
D. none of the mentioned
Answer - Click Here:c

8. What a link called when it sends and receives messages between two processes?
A. synchronization link
B. communication link
C. message-passing link
D. all of the mentioned
Answer - Click Here:
B
9. _____________________is called ready state of a process,
A. when the process is unable to run until some task has been completed
B. when the process is scheduled to run after some execution
C. when the process is using the CPU
D. none of the mentioned
Answer - Click Here:
B
10. A program is composed of many different localities, which _____ overlap.
A. must
B. must not
C. do not
D. may
Answer - Click Here:
D
11. Which one is the TRUE statement for direct communication?
A. Exactly two links exists between each pair of processes
B. A communication link can be associated with N number of the process(N
= max. number of processes supported by the system)
C. Exactly N/2 links exist between each pair of processes(N = max. number
of processes supported by the system)
D. A communication link can be associated with exactly two processes
Answer - Click Here:
D
12. ______________is called inter process communication.
A. communication between two threads of the same process
B. communication within the process
C. communication between two process
D. none of these
Answer - Click Here:
C
1. Which of the following is correct in uniform quantization process ______
A. Step size varies according to the values of the input signal
B. The step size remains the same
C. The quantizer has linear characteristics
D. None of these
E. Both B and C are correct
Answer - Click Here:
E
2. What is the process of converting the analog sample into discrete form is known as _____
A. Quantization
B. Modulation
C. Sampling
D. Multiplexing
Answer - Click Here:
A
3. Which one of the following are the disadvantages of PCM ________
A. Cannot be decoded easily
B. It requires a large bandwidth
C. Very high noise
D. None of the above
Answer - Click Here:
B
4. In the modulation technique that requires minimum bandwidth is _____ _, In digital
transmission.
A. DPCM
B. PAM
C. Delta modulation
D. PCM
Answer - Click Here:
C
5. During the Differential Pulse Code Modulation techniques, in which the decoding is
performed by
A. Sampler
B. Accumulator
C. Quantizer
D. PLL
Answer - Click Here:
B
6. When Granular noise occurs if ____
A. Step size is too large
B. Bandwidth is too large
C. Step size is too small
D. None of these
Answer - Click Here:
A
7. How the Code strength is characterized by ______
A. Code weight
B. Code size
C. Maximum distance
D. Minimum distance
Answer - Click Here:
D
8. The value of ‘n’ should be _______, For better efficiency and simplicity.
A. Minimum
B. Maximum
C. Infinity
D. Zero
Answer - Click Here:
A
9. There are some various types of distortion which are ________
A. Jitter
B. Noise
C. Error
D. None of these
E. Both A & B Correct
Answer - Click Here:
E
10. The Reconstruction of continuous signals is done using __________ algorithm.
A. Interpolation
B. Decimation & Interpolation
C. Decimation
D. None of the Above
Answer - Click Here:
A
11. Where Sampling is used _________
A. Audio
B. Speech
C. Video
D. All of above
E. None of these
Answer - Click Here:
D
12. Select one that the number of errors that can be corrected without erasure information
is __________
A. (Dmin – 1)/2
B. Dmin+1
C. Dmin – 1
D. (Dmin+1)/2
Answer - Click Here:
A