CS604-Midterm
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In ________ communication the process which wants to communicate with the other process must explicitly name the recipient and the sender.
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First-Come, First-Served (FCFS) is a --------------scheduling algorithm.
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_____________ determines How to do something.
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All threads within a process share the ________ address space.
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IPC provides a mechanism to allow processes to communicate and to synchronize their actions without sharing the same__________
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You can use the ------------- command to display the status of suspended and background processes
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________ determines What will be done.
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A process consists of __________
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The priority of a process can be changed using ___________ command.
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Cache is non-volatile memory.
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In Layered Approach of OS, the Layer highest Layer is User Interface layer.
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Operating System provides services such as Managing Primary and Secondary Storage, Processes and Allowing user to manage his/her files and directories.
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Banker‟s algorithm is used for ________________
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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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Which of the following is NOT a Hardware Resource.
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In ---------addressing, the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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In deadlock detection and recovery algorithm, a deadlock exists in the system if and only if the wait for graph contains a _____________
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You can terminate a foreground process by pressing --------------
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The integer value of ________semaphores can range over an unrestricted integer domain.
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Files that start with a -------- in UNIX/Linux directory structure are known as hidden files .
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In indirect inter process communication, a sender_____mention the name of the recipient.
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___________ is used in real time operating systems.
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The manual pages can be read in Linux using ____ command.
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The Shortest-Job-First Scheduling algorithm can be
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The -------------- system call suspends the calling process.
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Each page is a power of -------- bytes long in paging scheme.
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Utilities used for system administration (halt, ifconfig, fdisk, etc.) are stored in _____________ directory.
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Command-line interpreter is also called __________ in some operating systems.
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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 ________.
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--------------command to resume the execution of a suspended job in the foreground
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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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The major advantage of multi-programming system is
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______scheduler selects the process from the job pool and put them in main memory.
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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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Linux Treats Devices as Files.
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____ is a virtual directory in Linux and Unix.
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_________ command to resume the execution of a suspended job in the foreground
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The Home Directory for superuser in Linux and Unix is
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In Unix/ Linux, by default the standard input file is attached to the ___________
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_________________ scheduling allows a process to move between queues.
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Linux uses ___________ directory to store system configuration files.
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The bottom layer in the layered approach of Operating System is-----------
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When a process opens its first file explicitly it will get descriptor number _________
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User Goal of OS is that It easy to use, reliable, safe and fast.
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Mach, MacOS X Server, QNX, OS/2 and Windows NT are examples of OS Based on ______.
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The address generated by the CPU, after any indexing or other addressing-mode arithmetic, is called a --------address, and the address it gets translated to by the MMU is called a ---------address.
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If the system can allocate resources to each process in some order and still avoid a deadlock then it said to be in ______ state.
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Batch programs are usually _________ programs.
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-------- command gives a snapshot of the current processes.
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POSIX is a standard developed by ANSI
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