CS604 Midterm Online Quiz

The priorities of processes in the __________ group remain fixed.

In ---------addressing; the recipient is not required to name the sender.

First _______ entries in Per Process File Descriptor Table are used as soon as the process is created.

What do we name to an address that is loaded into the memory-address register of the memory?

_____________ determines How to do something.

Kernel is responsible for scheduling the user level threads.

________ determines What will be done.

In indirect inter process communication, a sender ________ mention the name of the recipient.

A_______ is an integer variable that, apart from initialization is accessible only through two standard atomic operations: wait and signal.

Hardware provide basic computing resource.

Using _________system, we can create a new process in Linux.

The process of switching from one process to another is called ---------------.

Which register holds the smallest legal physical memory address for a process?

In Linux directory structure, there is ___________ root directory.

If the system can allocate resources to each process in some order and still avoid a deadlock then it said to be in ______ state.

The main characteristic of a Real time system is

-------- command gives a snapshot of the current processes.

Cache is non-volatile memory.

________________ is an integer variable accessible through wait and signal which are atomic operations.

An absolute pathname starts with the root directory (/) and a relative pathname starts with your home directory.

Starvation is infinite blocking caused due to unavailability of resources.

_________ command to resume the execution of a suspended job in the foreground

You can display the contents (names of files and directories) of a directory in UNIX/Linux directory structure with the --------------- command.

___________ algorithm is used in Deadlock avoidance.

A Process that has finished working, as well as its parent process has also finished its execution. In this state the process A will be called as _________ process.

Operating System provides services such as Managing Primary and Secondary Storage, Processes and Allowing user to manage his/her files and directories.

Preemptive ----------------scheduling is sometimes called shortestremaining-time-first scheduling.

The number of processes completed per unit time is called ___________.

The manual pages can be read in Linux using ____ command.

Operating System is the Manager of Hardware Resources.

Linux uses ___________ directory to store system configuration files.

The interval from the time of submission to the time of completion is the ______

In Layered approach of OS, Lowest Layer is known as ________.

Mkfifo() is a _______.

In ________ communication the process which wants to communicate with the other process must explicitly name the recipient and the sender.

__________ scheduler selects the process from the job pool and put them in main memory.

The integer value of ________semaphores can range over an unrestricted integer domain.

A solution to the critical section problem must satisfy the following requirements

You can use the rm file1 command to __________ file1

If a system is not in a safe state, there can be No deadlocks.

The performance of Round Robin algorithm does NOT depends heavily on the size of the time quantum.

command displays the contents of current working directory.

A major problem with priority scheduling algorithms is ______.

____ command gives a snapshot of the current processes.

I MB or 1 megabyte is equivalent to----

The nice value helps in assigning ______ to a process.

The process of switching from one process to another is called latency.

DOS is single user operating system.

Cooperating processes never share any data, code, memory or state.

The bottom layer in the layered approach of Operating System is-----------