CS604-Midterm
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Preemptive ----------------scheduling is sometimes called shortestremaining-time-first scheduling.
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When a process opens its first file explicitly it will get descriptor number _________
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____ command gives a snapshot of the current processes.
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Linux is a version of _______ operating system.
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__________ commands in Linux is used to copy file
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copy file1 file2 is an example of ______ OS view.
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A program in execution is called a _______________.
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The ________ requires that once a writer is ready, that writer performs its write as soon as possible , if a writer waiting to access the object, no new readers may start reading.
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Banker‟s algorithm is used for ________________
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POSIX is a standard developed by ANSI
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The bottom layer in the layered approach of Operating System is-----------
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The scheduling of ______ are done by the operating system.
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A pathname is the list of directories separated by _________.
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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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A system call________
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Bounded Buffer is a buffer of ____________ size
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________ scheduling algorithm is sometimes called shortest remaining time first scheduling algorithm.
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All threads within a process share the ________ address space.
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You can use the rm file1 command to __________ file1
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Batch programs are usually _________ programs.
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Kernel is responsible for scheduling the user level threads.
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The critical section problem can be solved by the following except
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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.
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The Operating system is a layer of software between _________ and ___________.
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Each page is a power of -------- bytes long in paging scheme.
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rm and [r]mkdir commands are used to _____________ directory.
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Taking the CPU from one process and giving the CPU to another process is termed as
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------------has a hierarchical file system structure.
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The manual pages can be read in Linux using ____ command.
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The Home Directory for superuser in Linux and Unix is
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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.
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The correct command for compiling C program named program.c in Linux environment is
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Mach, MacOS X Server, QNX, OS/2 and Windows NT are examples of OS Based on ______.
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Operating system enables the user to use the Hardware Resources.
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Swapper is also termed as Short term scheduler.
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The Purpose of Operating System is to generate Executable Programs and to _______ them.
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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 Top-down view is that it is a program that acts as an intermediary between a user of a computer and the computer hardware, and makes the computer system convenient to use.
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Shared libraries and kernel modules are stored in directory
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_____________ is a preemptive scheduling algorithm.
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A process consists of __________
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In Unix/ Linux, by default the standard input file is attached to the ___________
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Utilities used for system administration (halt, ifconfig, fdisk, etc.) are stored in _____________ directory.
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In ---------addressing, the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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The performance of Round Robin algorithm does NOT depends heavily on the size of the time quantum.
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__________ integer shows the highest priority of a process in CPU scheduling
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Which of the Following is not an Operating 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 priority of a process can be changed using ___________ command.
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In indirect inter process communication, a sender ________ mention the name of the recipient.
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