CS604-Midterm
1 / 50
Hardware provide basic computing resource.
2 / 50
________________ is an integer variable accessible through wait and signal which are atomic operations.
3 / 50
An absolute pathname starts with the root directory (/) and a relative pathname starts with your home directory.
4 / 50
The Home Directory for superuser in Linux and Unix is
5 / 50
In Layered Approach of OS, the Layer highest Layer is User Interface layer.
6 / 50
In ---------addressing, the recipient is not required to name the sender.
7 / 50
n-process critical section problem can be solved by using
8 / 50
-------- command gives a snapshot of the current processes.
9 / 50
__________ displays information about the top processes.
10 / 50
command displays the contents of current working directory.
11 / 50
The performance of Round Robin algorithm does NOT depends heavily on the size of the time quantum.
12 / 50
Which of the Following is not an Operating System.
13 / 50
In Linux directory structure, there is ___________ root directory.
14 / 50
Mach, MacOS X Server, QNX, OS/2 and Windows NT are examples of OS Based on ______.
15 / 50
A process is said to be in critical section if it executes code that manipulates shared data
16 / 50
The main characteristic of a Real time system is
17 / 50
________ scheduling algorithm is sometimes called shortest remaining time first scheduling algorithm.
18 / 50
The Purpose of Operating System is to generate Executable Programs and to _______ them.
19 / 50
The major advantage of multi-programming system is
20 / 50
_________buffer places no practical limit on the size of the buffer
21 / 50
The nice value helps in assigning ______ to a process.
22 / 50
A Process „A‟ that has finished working but its parent process has also finished its execution. In this state the process „A‟ will be called as _____ process.
23 / 50
The hardware mechanism that enables a device to notify CPU is called an -------------
24 / 50
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.
25 / 50
A process consists of __________
26 / 50
Preventing a condition of ________ to happen, deadlocks can be prevented to happen.
27 / 50
Managing Secondary Storage Involves all of the Following except
28 / 50
Files that start with a -------- in UNIX/Linux directory structure are known as hidden files .
29 / 50
A condition where a set of blocked processes each holding a resource and waiting to acquire a resource held by another process in the set is termed as ________.
30 / 50
The bottom layer in the layered approach of Operating System is-----------
31 / 50
Linux is a version of _______ operating system.
32 / 50
The following is NOT a classical problem of synchronization
33 / 50
In indirect inter process communication, a sender ________ mention the name of the recipient.
34 / 50
_________________ scheduling allows a process to move between queues.
35 / 50
__________ directory includes essential system boot files including the kernel image.
36 / 50
When process opens its first file explicitly it will get descriptor number ______
37 / 50
The execution of critical sections must NOT be mutually exclusive
38 / 50
Mkfifo() is a _______.
39 / 50
A system call________
40 / 50
First-Come, First-Served (FCFS) is a --------------scheduling algorithm.
41 / 50
A time sharing system is
42 / 50
The priority of a process can be changed using ___________ command.
43 / 50
The condition where a set of blocked processes each holding a resource and waiting to acquire a resource held by another process in the set, is termed as ________.
44 / 50
The procedure “The time at which the process finished working MINUS the arrival time of the process MINUS CPU burst for that process” will help calculate the _________.
45 / 50
This condition is known as ______________.
46 / 50
The basic purpose of ________________is to help the users to utilize the hardware resources for completing different tasks in a simplified manner
47 / 50
Time interval when the I/O Devices are accessed is known as --------.
48 / 50
Utilities used for system administration (halt, ifconfig, fdisk, etc.) are stored in _____________ directory.
49 / 50
Taking the CPU from one process and giving the CPU to another process is termed as
50 / 50
The process id returned to the child process after successful fork system call execution is _____________.
Your score is
The average score is 36%
Restart quiz
