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Operating System Final Exam Lecture

This document is an exam for an operating system platform technologies course. It contains multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions testing identification of operating system concepts, acronyms, process states, scheduling queues, scheduler types, interprocess communication approaches, and information tracked in a process control block.

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Operating System Final Exam Lecture

This document is an exam for an operating system platform technologies course. It contains multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions testing identification of operating system concepts, acronyms, process states, scheduling queues, scheduler types, interprocess communication approaches, and information tracked in a process control block.

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OPERATING SYSTEM PLATFORM TECHNOLOGIES FINAL EXAM

Please read the instructions carefully before answering the exam. Good luck!

Name:______________________________Course/Section:_______________________________ Date:____/____/____

I. Identification.
______________1. An operating system interface which uses text commands and a method for entering them
______________2. Is normally organized into directories for easy navigation and usage. These directories may
contain files and other directions.
______________3. Handles routing and connection strategies, and the problems of contention and security.
______________4. This service of the operating system keeps track of which users are using how much and what
kinds of computer resources have been used for accounting or simply to accumulate usage statistics.
______________5. Refers to the part of an operating system, program, or device that allows a user to enter and
receive information.
______________6. Are non-interactive user interfaces, where the user specifies all the details of the batch job in
advance to batch processing, and receives the output when all the processing is done.
______________7. Is mainly a program in execution where the execution of a process must progress in sequential
order or based on some priority or algorithms.
______________8. Is a collection of instructions that performs a specific task when executed by a computer.
______________9. Is the activity of the process manager that handles the removal of the running process from the
CPU and the selection of another process on the basis of a particular strategy.
_____________10. Is the mechanism to store and restore the state or context of a CPU in Process Control block so
that a process execution can be resumed from the same point at a later time.
II. Acronyms.
1. FIFO - ____________________________________________________________________________________
2. TUI - ____________________________________________________________________________________
3. MS-DOS - ___________________________________________________________________________________
4. IPC - ____________________________________________________________________________________
5. GUI - ____________________________________________________________________________________
III. Enumeration.

Process States

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Process Scheduling Queue
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Types of Process Schedulers
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Approaches to Interprocess Communication
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Information kept by a Process Control Block needed to keep track of a process
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Types of User Interfaces
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