CS604-Midterm
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_________________ scheduling allows a process to move between queues.
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Bounded Buffer is a buffer of ____________ size
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Which register holds the smallest legal physical memory address for a process?
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The bottom layer in the layered approach of Operating System is-----------
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In Resource Allocation Graph, A _______ Pi →Rj indicates that process Pi may request resource Rj at some time in the future.
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You can display all of the signals supported by your system, along with their numbers, by using the -----------command
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The creating process is called a--------------- process while the new processes are called the -------------- of that process
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Utilities used for system administration (halt, ifconfig, fdisk, etc.) are stored in _____________ directory.
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The scheduling of ______ are done by the operating system.
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Mach, MacOS X Server, QNX, OS/2 and Windows NT are examples of OS Based on ______.
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_____________ determines How to do something.
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________ scheduling algorithm is sometimes called shortest remaining time first scheduling algorithm.
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Mkfifo() is a _______.
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First-Come, First-Served (FCFS) is a --------------scheduling algorithm.
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A semaphore that cause Busy-Waiting is termed as ___________.
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If your processor does not have two slots empty in Per Process File Descriptor Table, then your _________ system call will fail.
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The -----------scheme is not applicable to a resource allocation system with multiple instances of each resource type.
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The critical section problem can be solved by the following except
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The process of holding at least one resource and waiting to acquire additional resources that are currently being held by other processes is known as________.
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Managing Secondary Storage Involves all of the Following except
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Linux is a version of _______ operating system.
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A process is said to be in critical section if it executes code that manipulates shared data
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You can terminate a foreground process by pressing --------------
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The major advantage of multi-programming system is
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/usr/X11R6 is used by the X Window System.
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Progress and Bounded Waiting are some of the characteristics to solve the critical section problems.
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The execution of critical sections must NOT be mutually exclusive
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A program in execution is called a _______________.
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Users are the People, machines or computers that uses the Hardware resources.
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Each process must first request permission to enter its critical section. The section of code implementing this request is called the _____
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___________ is used in real time operating systems.
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____ command gives a snapshot of the current processes.
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A dashed line is used to represent a _________ in Resource Allocation Graph.
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__________ integer shows the highest priority of a process in CPU scheduling
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Starvation is infinite blocking caused due to unavailability of resources.
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User mode can run the Privileged instructions.
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--------------command to resume the execution of a suspended job in the foreground
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The _______ are used for communication between related or unrelated processes on the same system or unrelated processes on different systems.
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A solution to the critical section problem must satisfy the following requirements
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The bottom-up view is that operating system is a resource manager who manages the hardware and software resources in the computer system.
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Kernel is responsible for scheduling the user level threads.
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This condition is known as ______________.
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n-process critical section problem can be solved by using
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The time it takes for the dispatcher to stop one process and start another running is known as the-----------.
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What do we name to an address that is loaded into the memory-address register of the memory?
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The basic purpose of ________________is to help the users to utilize the hardware resources for completing different tasks in a simplified manner
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The process of switching from one process to another is called ---------------.
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Operating system enables the user to use the Hardware Resources.
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The priorities of processes in the __________ group remain fixed.
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Which of the following is correct definition for wait operation?
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