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Unit 1 - Unit I

Course outline

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Unit I
Introduction to Operating Systems (unit?unit=1&lesson=2)

Computer organization part 1 (unit?unit=1&lesson=4)

Computer Organization Part2 (unit?unit=1&lesson=3)

Views of Operating Systems (unit?unit=1&lesson=5)

Operating System Services (unit?unit=1&lesson=6)

Operating System structure (unit?unit=1&lesson=9)

Operations of OS (unit?unit=1&lesson=12)

System calls (unit?unit=1&lesson=15)

Process Management (unit?unit=1&lesson=16)

Context Switching (unit?unit=1&lesson=17)

Quiz: Assessment1 (assessment?name=18)

IPC using message passing (unit?unit=1&lesson=19)

IPC-Using shared memory (unit?unit=1&lesson=20)

system booting process (unit?unit=1&lesson=21)

Quiz: Assessment-2 (assessment?name=22)

Introduction to CPU scheduling (unit?unit=1&lesson=23)

CPU Scheduling (unit?unit=1&lesson=24)

Performance evaluation of CPU scheduling algorithms (unit?unit=1&lesson=25)

Multiprocessor scheduling (unit?unit=1&lesson=26)

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Unit II

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Unit 3

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unit 4

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unit 5
Assessment1
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Assignment submitted on
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1) Operating system is a resource manager that manages is 1 point

All the above

Reduce the complexity

Resources efficiently

Utilize hardware easily

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
All the above

2) Which of the following is not a hardware 1 point

Bus

CPU

RAM

Scheduler

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Scheduler

3) Device that provides efficient computation on arrays of data using Single instruction Multiple Data techniques 1 point

CPU

DSP

GPU

SOC

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
GPU

4) Most efficient Input Output technique is 1 point

All of the above

Direct memory access

Interrupt driven IO

Programmed IO
Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Direct memory access

5) Processing in which the programs and data collected together as a group before the processing starts 1 point

Parallel processing

Array processing

Batch processing

Time sharing system

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Batch processing

6) In the following options which is not the type of operating system structures 1 point

Distributed systems

Hybrid systems

Microkernel

Monolithic

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Distributed systems

7) kernel mode is also known as 1 point

All the above

priviliged mode

supervisor mode

system mode

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
All the above

8) Operating system is a type of 1 point

Malware

Middleware

hardware

software

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
software

9) What is the expansion of CTSS 1 point

Compatible Time Sharing System

Compatible Time Storing System

Computable Time Sharing System

Computable Time Storing System

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Compatible Time Sharing System

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Unit 1 - Unit I

Course outline

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Unit I
Introduction to Operating Systems (unit?unit=1&lesson=2)

Computer organization part 1 (unit?unit=1&lesson=4)

Computer Organization Part2 (unit?unit=1&lesson=3)

Views of Operating Systems (unit?unit=1&lesson=5)

Operating System Services (unit?unit=1&lesson=6)

Operating System structure (unit?unit=1&lesson=9)

Operations of OS (unit?unit=1&lesson=12)

System calls (unit?unit=1&lesson=15)

Process Management (unit?unit=1&lesson=16)

Context Switching (unit?unit=1&lesson=17)

Quiz: Assessment1 (assessment?name=18)

IPC using message passing (unit?unit=1&lesson=19)

IPC-Using shared memory (unit?unit=1&lesson=20)

system booting process (unit?unit=1&lesson=21)

Quiz: Assessment-2 (assessment?name=22)

Introduction to CPU scheduling (unit?unit=1&lesson=23)

CPU Scheduling (unit?unit=1&lesson=24)

Performance evaluation of CPU scheduling algorithms (unit?unit=1&lesson=25)

Multiprocessor scheduling (unit?unit=1&lesson=26)

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Unit II

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Unit 3

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unit 4

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unit 5
Assessment-2
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Due on 2021-10-11, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on
2021-10-11, 21:17 IST
1) During the system call the control should be transferred from 1 point

Kernel space to kernel space

User space and kernel space

User space to kernel space

User space to user space

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
User space to kernel space

2) What is the purpose of msgctl function 1 point

Indicating message initialization

Indicating the message transmission

Indicating the permission changes

Indicating the type of the message

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Indicating the permission changes

3) What is the responsibility of Bootstrap Loader 1 point

Deleting the operating system

Installing operating system

Locating the operating system

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Locating the operating system

4) System call to the OS is considered as which type of interrupt 1 point

Hardware interrupt

Maskable interrupt

TRAP interrupt

Timer interrupt
No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
TRAP interrupt

5) Which of the following state is responsible for creation of a process 1 point

New

Ready

Running

Waiting

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
New

6) Transferring the process between the memory and the ready queue is the process of 1 point

Fair scheduler

Interrupting operating system

Medium term scheduler

Short-term scheduler

long term scheduler

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Medium term scheduler

7) Context switching is system is considered as 1 point

Complex process

Essential process

Normal process

Overhead process

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Overhead process

8) How each and every process are identified by Operating system 1 point

PC

PCB

PID

TCB

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
PID

9) Blocking send and unblocking send are synchronous process 1 point

Correct

Incorrect

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Incorrect

10) Sending and receiving the information using the Mailbox is known as 1 point

Blocking communication

Direct communication

Indirect communication

Synchronous communication

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Indirect communication

11) From the following options which is the false choice in the reasons for process cooperation 1 point

Fast computation

Information sharing

Modularity

Use the CPU at the same time

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Use the CPU at the same time
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Unit 2 - Unit II

Course outline

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Unit I


Unit II
Basics of memory management (unit?unit=29&lesson=30)

Memory partitioning (unit?unit=29&lesson=31)

Paging and segemtation (unit?unit=29&lesson=32)

Page replacement algorithms (unit?unit=29&lesson=33)

Demand paging (unit?unit=29&lesson=34)

Quiz: Assessment 3 (assessment?name=35)

Virtual memory (unit?unit=29&lesson=36)

Deadlock (unit?unit=29&lesson=37)

Deadlock avoidance for single resource (unit?unit=29&lesson=38)

deadlock avoidance-bankers algorithm (unit?unit=29&lesson=39)

Deadlock,avoidance,detection and recovery (unit?unit=29&lesson=40)

Peterson algorithm (unit?unit=29&lesson=41)

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Unit 3

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unit 4

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unit 5

Assessment 3
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Due on 2021-10-28, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on
2021-10-27, 22:26 IST
1) When the scheduling is considered as completed 1 point

All the above

Process finished execution

System call

Time quantum

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
All the above

2) The interval of the submission time of the process and completion time is known as 1 point

Response time

Throughput

Turnaround time

Waiting time

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Turnaround time

3) Which scheduling algorithm is suitable for scheduling the process with less response time 1 point

HRRN

RR with large quantum value

RR with small quantum value

SRT

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
RR with small quantum value

4) The situation where a higher priority task to wait for a lower priority task is known as 1 point

Non-preemption

Priority inversion

Priority-Inheritance

Priority-Sealing

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Priority inversion

5) Program which is running in user mode and trying to access Operating system memory or other users memory results in 1 point

Fatal error

Hardware failure

Logical error

Syntax error

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Fatal error

6) The memory spaces cannot be used even enough total memory space is available to satisfy a request is called as 1 point

Compaction

External fragmentation

Internal fragmentation

Thrashing

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
External fragmentation

7) Shuffle the memory contents to place all free memory together in one large block is called 1 point

Compaction

External fragmentation

Internal fragmentation

Thrashing

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Compaction

8) The solution to reduce the accessing time of the user memory locations 1 point

First fit

Fixed allocation

Thrashing

Translation lookaside buffer

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Translation lookaside buffer

9) If there is reference to a page not in memory, it causes 1 point

Global replacement

Local replacement

Page fault

Thrashing

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Page fault

10) The process is busy swapping pages in and out of memory is known as 1 point

Global replacement

Local replacement

Page fault

Thrashing

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Thrashing

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Unit 3 - Unit 3

Course outline

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Unit I


Unit II


Unit 3
Synchronization-part1 (unit?unit=43&lesson=44)

Synchronization-part2 (unit?unit=43&lesson=45)

Quiz: Assessment 4 (assessment?name=46)

Monitors and measures (unit?unit=43&lesson=47)

classic problem of concurrency (unit?unit=43&lesson=49)


unit 4


unit 5

Assessment 4
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Due on 2021-11-24, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on
2021-11-24, 22:08 IST
1) A built-in function in shared memory to return the information about the shared memory segment 1 point

shmat()

shmctl()

shmctrl()

shmdt()
Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
shmctl()

2) Message queues format consists of 1 point

All the above

Destination ID

Message type

Source ID

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
All the above

3) Software used to locate the kernel load it into main memory and start the OS execution is known as 1 point

Bootstrap loader

Event counter

Monitor

Semaphore

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Bootstrap loader

4) Under ____________ schedulingf once CPU allocated to a process the process keeps the CPU until it completes or makes IO call 1 point
and get blocked

FCFS

Non-Preemptive

Preemptive

long-term

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Non-Preemptive

5) The technique used to overcome the waiting time of low priority processes 1 point

Aging

Preemption

Priority

Starvation

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Aging

6) Collection of autonomous systems known as ____________ 1 point

Loosely coupled systems

Parallel systems

Shared systems

Tightly coupled systems

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Loosely coupled systems

7) A process may be assigned to different processor after it is unblocked 1 point

Dedicated assignment

Dynamic assignment

Short-term assignment

Static assignment

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Dynamic assignment

8) Software used to relocate the process from memory to the compilation mode 1 point

Assembler

Linker

Loader

compiler

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Loader

9) Allocate the smallest hole of the memory 1 point

Best fit

First fit

Next fit

Second fit

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Best fit

10) ____________happens when there is a sufficient quantity of area within the memory to satisfy the memory request of a method. 1 point
However the process’s memory request cannot be fulfilled because the memory offered is during a non-contiguous manner.

External fragmentation

Internal fragmentation

Offset

Segmentation
Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
External fragmentation

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Unit 4 - unit 4

Course outline

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Unit I

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Unit II


Unit 3


unit 4
File systems (unit?unit=50&lesson=51)

Diectory and Disk structure (unit?unit=50&lesson=52)

Quiz: ASSESSMENT 5 (assessment?name=54)

Disk structure (unit?unit=50&lesson=55)

Disk scheduling (unit?unit=50&lesson=56)

File allocation and protection (unit?unit=50&lesson=57)

IO Management (unit?unit=50&lesson=58)

Quiz: Assessment 6 (assessment?name=68)

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unit 5

ASSESSMENT 5
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Due on 2021-12-15, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on
2021-12-15, 21:44 IST
1) Situation that occurs when a device or system attempts to perform two or more operations at the same time 1 point

Live lock

Mutual exclusion

Race condition

Starvation

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Race condition
 2) A condition in which the various processes are constantly changing state but never reach a situation where any of them can 1 point
proceed

Live lock

Mutual exclusion

Race condition

Starvation

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Live lock

3) Semaphore is a ______ that controls access to one or more resources 1 point

Command

Hardware

Variable

process

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Variable

4) A piece of code in which processes or threads access a shared resource 1 point

Live lock

Mutual exclusion

Race condition

Starvation

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Mutual exclusion

5) Another name of Bounded-Buffer problem is ________________ 1 point

Banker algorithm

Dining-Philoshoper problem

Producer-Consumer problem

Reader-Writerproblem

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Producer-Consumer problem

6) In Reader-Writer problem a process wishing to do the updating must be in _________ 1 point

All the above

Read and write mode

Read mode

Write mode

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Write mode

7) Only one process at a time can acquire the lock to avail the file access 1 point

Exclusive lock

Read lock

Readwrite lock

Shared lock

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
d
 Accepted Answers:
Exclusive lock

8) All the pointers to scattered blocks are placed together in one location is 1 point

Contigous allocation

Indexed allocation

Linked allocation

Sequential allocation

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Indexed allocation

9) In ______________ every user has their own user file directory (UFD) 1 point

Acyclic graph directory

Hierarchical level directory

Single level directory

Two-level directory

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Two-level directory

10) In which directory model the same file or subdirectory may be in two different directories 1 point

Acyclic graph directory

Hierarchical level directory

Single level directory

Two-level directory

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Acyclic graph directory

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
Unit II


Unit 3


unit 4
File systems (unit?unit=50&lesson=51)

Diectory and Disk structure (unit?unit=50&lesson=52)

Quiz: ASSESSMENT 5 (assessment?name=54)

Disk structure (unit?unit=50&lesson=55)

Disk scheduling (unit?unit=50&lesson=56)

File allocation and protection (unit?unit=50&lesson=57)

IO Management (unit?unit=50&lesson=58)

Quiz: Assessment 6 (assessment?name=68)


unit 5

Assessment 6
The due date for submitting this assignment has passed.
Due on 2021-12-21, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on
2021-12-21, 22:34 IST
1) Memory space allotted in CPU is __________ 1 point

Cache

Dynamic RAM

Register

Stack

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Register
2) Find the odd one from the given options related to the steps involved in user programs 1 point

Compilation

Execution

Program development

swapping

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
swapping

3) Offsets from the starting address is known as __________ 1 point

Absolute address

Logical address

Physical address

Relative address

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Relative address

4) When all philosophers are hungry they will try to grab___________ chopstick first 1 point

Both

Left

Right

next person’s left

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Left

5) Switching the CPU from one process to another process requires performing ____________Of current process 1 point

state restore

state save

statecopy

statedelete

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
state save

6) Process which creates another process is called as 1 point

Child process

Parent process

Root process

Tree process

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Parent process

7) ______________is responsible for managing client of a system 1 point

hdss process

sdsh process

shsd process

sshd process

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
 sshd process

8) _______________function is used to create a copy of a same process 1 point

fork

msgctl

pipe

shmget

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
fork

9) System call that loads a binary file into a memory 1 point

exe()

exit()

shm()

signal()

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
exe()

10) Initial value of invalid bit in all entries are _______ 1 point

V

c

i

k

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
i

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Unit I

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Unit II


Unit 3


unit 4


unit 5
distributed file system (unit?unit=59&lesson=69)

Error handling (unit?unit=59&lesson=70)

Quiz: assessment7 (assessment?name=72)

threads (unit?unit=59&lesson=73)

Quiz: assessment8 (assessment?name=76)

performance (unit?unit=59&lesson=77)

Quiz: assessment9 (assessment?name=78)

Terminals (unit?unit=59&lesson=79)

Quiz: assessment10 (assessment?name=80)

clocks (unit?unit=59&lesson=82)

Quiz: assessment11 (assessment?name=83)

Quiz: assessment12 (assessment?name=84)

assessment7
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Due on 2021-12-21, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on
2021-12-21, 22:36 IST
1) Starting address of the memory is stored in _______________ 1 point

Base register

Limit register

Linker

Relocation register

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Base register

2) Address binding is converting symbolic address to ______________ 1 point

Base address

limit address

linker address

relocation address

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
relocation address

3) Philoshoper executes__________ function if he wants to grab a chopstick 1 point

Signal()

Wait()

seminit()

shm()

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Wait()

4) Interrupts cause OS to change CPU from current task to execute ______________ 1 point

Kernel routine

interrupt routine

primary task

user task

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Kernel routine

5) Switching CPU from state save of current process and state restore of different process is known as _________ 1 point

Context switching

Page replacement

Paging

Race condition

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Context switching

6) Process is identified with _______ 1 point

CID

PID

SSH

UID

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
PID

7) Expansion of SS in SSHD 1 point

State save

State secure

secure save

secure shell

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
secure shell

8) Fork() returns zero for _______ 1 point

both

child process

none

parent process

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
child process

9) In windows API _____________ is used to create a process 1 point

Pipe()

cp()

createprocess()

fork()

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
createprocess()

10) One of the parameters of createprocess() is 1 point

Commandline

Header

Tag

comment

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Commandline

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Unit 5 - unit 5

Course outline

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Unit I


Unit II


Unit 3


unit 4


unit 5
distributed file system (unit?unit=59&lesson=69)

Error handling (unit?unit=59&lesson=70)

Quiz: assessment7 (assessment?name=72)

threads (unit?unit=59&lesson=73)

Quiz: assessment8 (assessment?name=76)

performance (unit?unit=59&lesson=77)

Quiz: assessment9 (assessment?name=78)

Terminals (unit?unit=59&lesson=79)

Quiz: assessment10 (assessment?name=80)

clocks (unit?unit=59&lesson=82)

Quiz: assessment11 (assessment?name=83)

Quiz: assessment12 (assessment?name=84)

assessment8
The due date for submitting this assignment has passed.
Due on 2021-12-25, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on
2021-12-25, 23:17 IST
1) Moving the process between disk and memory during the execution 1 point

Context switching

Page fault

Page replacement

Swapping

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Swapping

2) Binding the relocatable address to absolute address is known as _________ 1 point

Base address

Limit address

Linker and loader

Relocation address

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Linker and loader

3) If philosopher wants to release the chopstick ,he executes _________ 1 point

seminit()

shm()

signal()

wait()

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
signal()

4) Context of process is represented in 1 point

Process context block

Process control block

Program context block

Program control block

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Process control block

5) Switching speed varies due to 1 point

All the above

Existence of special instructions

Memory speed

Number of registers

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
All the above

6) ________process serves as the root parent for all the user process 1 point

PID1

PID2

PID3

PID4

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
PID1

7) __________process is responsible for managing clients that are directly log on to the system 1 point

Login

Logout

Swaping

Switching

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Login

8) Fork() function returns positive number for _____________ 1 point

Parent process

both

child process

none

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Parent process

9) Process can cause termination of another process in windows using ______________ 1 point

endprocess()

quitprocess()

terminateprocess()

truncateprocess()

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
terminateprocess()

10) Finding some page in a memory and if it is not really in use,swapping it out 1 point

Offset

Page fault

Page replacement

Pagemapping table

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Page replacement

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Unit 5 - unit 5

Course outline


Unit I


Unit II


Unit 3


unit 4


unit 5
distributed file system (unit?unit=59&lesson=69)

Error handling (unit?unit=59&lesson=70)

Quiz: assessment7 (assessment?name=72)

threads (unit?unit=59&lesson=73)

Quiz: assessment8 (assessment?name=76)

performance (unit?unit=59&lesson=77)

Quiz: assessment9 (assessment?name=78)

Terminals (unit?unit=59&lesson=79)

Quiz: assessment10 (assessment?name=80)

clocks (unit?unit=59&lesson=82)

Quiz: assessment11 (assessment?name=83)

Quiz: assessment12 (assessment?name=84)

assessment9
The due date for submitting this assignment has passed.
Due on 2021-12-26, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on
2021-12-26, 12:15 IST
1) Currently turn is 0 , P1 has entered CS & P0 wants to enter CS 1 point

Flag[1]=false

P0 stuck in while loop

P1 stuck in while loop

Turn[1]=0

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
P0 stuck in while loop

2) The main purpose of virtual memory is 1 point

Both

It is mainly maintained on secondary memory

None

pieces are brought into main memory only when needed

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Both

3) Find the odd one from the selection of process to abort? 1 point

How long process has computed.

Priority of the process

Resources the process has used

Schedule method used

and how much longer to completion

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Schedule method used

4) Purpose of Rollback is 1 point

Return to some safe state restarts process for that state

Return to some safe state stops process for that state

Return to some unsafe state restarts process for that state

Return to some unsafe state stops process for that state
Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Return to some safe state restarts process for that state

5) Rotational latency is 1 point

Additional time waiting for the disk to delete a the desired sector to the disk head

Additional time waiting for the disk to overwrite the desired sector to the disk head

Additional time waiting for the disk to rotate the desired sector to the disk head

Additional time waiting for the disk to write a sector to the disk head

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Additional time waiting for the disk to rotate the desired sector to the disk head

6) Seek time is 1 point

Time for the disk are to move the heads to the cylinder containing

Time for the disk are to move the heads to the cylinder containing the desired sector

Time for the disk are to move the heads to the cylinder containing the desired track

Time for the disk write a data on disk

the desired sector including rotational delay

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Time for the disk are to move the heads to the cylinder containing the desired sector
 7) _______________is the total number of bytes transferred, divided by the total time between the first request for service and the 1 point
completion of last transfer

Disk bandwidth

Disk latency

Disk rotate

Seek time

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Disk bandwidth

8) The disk arm starts at one end of the disk, and moves toward the other end, servicing requests until it gets to the other end of 1 point
the disk, where the head movement is reversed and servicing continues

C-SCAN

Elevator

SCAN

SSTF

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
SCAN

9) The disk arm starts at the first I/O request on the disk, and moves toward the last I/O request on the other end, servicing 1 point
requests until it gets to the other extreme I/O request on the disk, where the head movement is reversed and servicing continues

c-look

c-scan

look

scan
No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
look

10) Arm only goes as far as the last request in each direction, then reverses direction immediately, without first going all the way to 1 point
the end of the disk

c-look

c-scan

look

scan

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
c-look

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Unit 5 - unit 5

Course outline


Unit I


Unit II


Unit 3


unit 4


unit 5
distributed file system (unit?unit=59&lesson=69)

Error handling (unit?unit=59&lesson=70)

Quiz: assessment7 (assessment?name=72)

threads (unit?unit=59&lesson=73)

Quiz: assessment8 (assessment?name=76)

performance (unit?unit=59&lesson=77)

Quiz: assessment9 (assessment?name=78)

Terminals (unit?unit=59&lesson=79)

Quiz: assessment10 (assessment?name=80)

clocks (unit?unit=59&lesson=82)

Quiz: assessment11 (assessment?name=83)

Quiz: assessment12 (assessment?name=84)

assessment10
The due date for submitting this assignment has passed.
Due on 2021-12-28, 23:59 IST.
As per our records you have not submitted this assignment.

1) __________ copies the value of the holding register into the counter and then decrements the counter at each pulse from the 1 point
crystal

one shot mode

square wave mode

triangular wave mode

two shot mode

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
one shot mode

2) Expansion of UTC 1 point

Universal Coordinated Time

Universal Corrected Time

Universe Corelated Time

Universe Current Time

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Universal Coordinated Time

3) Find the odd one from the list related to the approches in maintaining time of a day in system 1 point

Count in ticks

Maintain the time of day in seconds

Use a 64-bit counter

Use the controller

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Use the controller

4) ______________ provided to manually set the system clock and the backup clock and to synchronize the two clocks 1 point

Procedures

Sub programs

Utility programs

universal codes

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Utility programs

5) If a 500-MHz crystal is used then the counter pulse rate is 1 point

pulsed every 1 nsec

pulsed every 2 nsec

pulsed every 3 nsec

pulsed every 4 nsec

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
pulsed every 2 nsec

6) Common purposes of performance evaluation 1 point

All the above

Performance monitoring

Performance projection

Selection evaluation

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
All the above

7) Performance evaluation useful when 1 point

All the above

Deciding whether to buy or upgrade

Developing a system

System tuning

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
All the above

8) Types of measures are 1 point

Absolute performance measures

Both a and b

None

Relative performance measures

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Both a and b

9) Time from when a job is submitted to and when a result is returned 1 point

Response time

System reaction time

Turnaround time

Waiting time

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Turnaround time

10) Record of system activity, typically a log of user or application requests to the operating system is known as 1 point

Monitoring

Profiling

tracing

tracking

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
tracing

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Unit 5 - unit 5

Course outline


Unit I


Unit II


Unit 3


unit 4


unit 5
distributed file system (unit?unit=59&lesson=69)

Error handling (unit?unit=59&lesson=70)

Quiz: assessment7 (assessment?name=72)

threads (unit?unit=59&lesson=73)

Quiz: assessment8 (assessment?name=76)

performance (unit?unit=59&lesson=77)

Quiz: assessment9 (assessment?name=78)

Terminals (unit?unit=59&lesson=79)

Quiz: assessment10 (assessment?name=80)

clocks (unit?unit=59&lesson=82)

Quiz: assessment11 (assessment?name=83)

Quiz: assessment12 (assessment?name=84)

assessment11
The due date for submitting this assignment has passed.
Due on 2021-12-30, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on
2021-12-30, 22:55 IST
1) Record of system activity in kernel mode is known as_________ 1 point

Tracing

monitoring

profiling

tracking

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Tracing

2) Comparisons between members of the same family of computers is called as _______ 1 point

Tracing

microbenchmarking

profiling

timing

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
timing

3) Microbenchmark are used to 1 point

All the above

Measures the time required to perform a specific operating system operation

Used for measuring small aspects of system performance

Used for system operations

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
All the above

4) Mathematical representations of computer systems 1 point

Analysis model

Analytic model

Application model

Approximate model

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Analytic model

5) Expansion of SPEC is ___________ 1 point

Special Performance Examination Corporation

Special Performance valuation Corporation

Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

Standard Performance examination communication

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

6) Expansion of BAPCo is ___________ 1 point

Business Analytical performance corporation

Business Application Performance Corporation

Business Application Process Corporation

Business Application Process communication

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Business Application Performance Corporation

7) __________ used to approximate the instruction mix of an application or group of applications 1 point

Application programs

Benchmark programs

Synthetic programs

System programs

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Synthetic programs

8) Technique in which information about the current state of the system can affect arriving requests 1 point

Backward looping

Benchmarking

Forward looping

Reverse looping

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Forward looping

9) Arrival rate of a resource increasing as a result of ________ 1 point

Forward looping

backward looping

negative feedback

positive feedback

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
positive feedback

10) RS-232 terminal pin connector count 1 point

10 or 20 pin connector

10 or 25 pin connector

9 or 20 pin connector

9 or 25 pin connector

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
9 or 25 pin connector

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Unit 5 - unit 5

Course outline


Unit I


Unit II


Unit 3


unit 4


unit 5
distributed file system (unit?unit=59&lesson=69)

Error handling (unit?unit=59&lesson=70)

Quiz: assessment7 (assessment?name=72)

threads (unit?unit=59&lesson=73)

Quiz: assessment8 (assessment?name=76)

performance (unit?unit=59&lesson=77)

Quiz: assessment9 (assessment?name=78)

Terminals (unit?unit=59&lesson=79)

Quiz: assessment10 (assessment?name=80)

clocks (unit?unit=59&lesson=82)

Quiz: assessment11 (assessment?name=83)

Quiz: assessment12 (assessment?name=84)

assessment12
The due date for submitting this assignment has passed.
Due on 2021-12-31, 23:59 IST.
As per our records you have not submitted this assignment.

1) UART can send and receive characters ____________ 1 point

One at a time

Synchronous

always in one direction

simultaniously

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
simultaniously

2) Find a odd one from the categories of RS-232 1 point

Dumb CRT terminals

Hardcopy terminals

Intelligent CRT terminals

Softcopy terminals

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Softcopy terminals

3) Memory-mapped displays are interfaced via a special memory called ___________ 1 point

Cache

DMA

Stack

Video RAM

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Video RAM

4) Character-oriented input software mode is also called as 1 point

Complicated mode

Line oriented mode

cooked mode

raw mode

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
raw mode

5) Contention among all threads in a scope is known as __________ 1 point

Process Contention Scope

Program contention Scope

Software Contention Scope

System Contention Scope

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
System Contention Scope

6) Find the odd one from the list of the purpose of distributed file system 1 point

File transmission

Reduce fragmentation

Resource administration

Security and protection

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
File transmission

7) The name of a file does not reveal any hint of the file’s physical storage location is known as___________ 1 point

Location independency

Location notification

Location synchronization

location transparency

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
location transparency

8) When the client sends a request to a server the server carries out the request,sends the reply,and then remove fromits internal 1 point
tables all information about the request

Asynchronous transmission

Stateful transmission

Stateless transmission

Synchronous transmission

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Stateless transmission

9) Approaches to handle errors in bad blocks 1 point

Both are correct

Both are wrong

Deal with them in the controller

Deal with them in the operating system
No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Both are correct

10) The name of a file does not need to be changed when the file as physical storage location changes 1 point

Location independency

Location notification

Location synchronization

location transparency

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Location independency

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