OPERATING SYSTEM

1. An Operating System is a ____________ software, which may be viewed as an organized collection of software. (a) Application (b) System (c) Both (d) None of these OS manages resources of the computer system such as ______ (a) memory (b) processor (c) I/O devices (d) All of the above Program are started by loading the program ________with address of the first instructions. (a) memory (b) register (c) counter (d) None of the above ___________OS usually provide the means for system wide sharing of resources. (a) Network (b) Distributed (c) Multiprogramming (d) None of the above The model of distributed processing is often implemented by extending, rather than redesigning the existing _____. (a) Software (b) Hardware (c) Software & Hardware (d) None of the above A process includes process _____ containing temporary data. (a) file (b) counter (c) stack (d) None of the above 9. 7. __________indicates the address of the next instruction to be executed (a) program file (b) program counter (c) registers (d) None of the above A _________ processor may be shared among several processes with some scheduling algorigthm. (a) single (b) multiple (c) multilevel (d) None of the above A process may create several new processes, via a create process system ___________ (a) file (b) counter (c) call (d) None of the above The executive system call loads a ______ file into memory and starts its execution. (a) binary (b) text (c) both (d) None of the above

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11. In Mutual Exclusion each process has segment of code, called ____ (a) semaphores (b) schedulers (c) critical section (d) None of the above 12. We keep the ready queue as a _______ queue while implementing the RR scheduling. (a) LIFO (b) FIFO (c) FILO (d) None of the above

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13. Performance criteria are defined in terms of utilization, _________ time or thoughput. (a) response (b) compile (c) run (d) None of the above 14. Which of the conditions necessary for deadlock : (a) Mutual exclusion (b) Hold and wait condition (c) No preemption condition. (d) All of the above. is

19. Disks are used for (a) Backup (b) storage of large information (c) storing quantities of data that are impractically large for floppy disks (d) All of the above 20. In modern disks logical block is usually of _____bytes (a) 520 (b) 512 (c) 412 (d) None of the above 21. SSTF stands for (a) Shortest Service Transferred for (b) Shortest seek time first (c) Smallest scheduling (d) None of the above 22. Files are commonly stored on physical devices such as : (a) Floppy disk (b) Hard disk (c) Magnetic tape (d) All 23. A typical directory entry may contain (a) File name, type & version number (b) File access pointer (c) File attributes (d) All of the above 24. In which access method files are processed in order one record after the other (a) Sequential Access (b) Direct Access (c) Allocation Method (d) None of the above

15. If no partition is free while loading a new process in memory which process goes on between main memory and secondary storage. (a) paging (b) segmentation (c) swapping (d) None of these 16. Two most common strategies to allocate free partition to ready processes are (a) Paging & segmentation (b) swapping & paging (c) first-fit & best fit (d) None of these 17. In hardware for paging PMT stands for : (a) page model text (b) page map table (c) physical memory table (d) None of these 18. FIFO stands for : (a) First In first Order (b) First issue for order (c) First In First Out (d) None of the above

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