CS604-Midterm
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Each page is a power of -------- bytes long in paging scheme.
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You can terminate a foreground process by pressing --------------
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Linux uses ___________ directory to store system configuration files.
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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 _________.
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Database, Complier, Video games are examples of ________.
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Utilities used for system administration (halt, ifconfig, fdisk, etc.) are stored in _____________ directory.
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The Home Directory for superuser in Linux and Unix is
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I/O instructions are Privileged Instructions.
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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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________ determines What will be done.
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The process of switching from one process to another is called latency.
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Binary semaphores are those that have only two values---------
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The scheduling of ______ are done by the operating system.
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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 creating process is called a--------------- process while the new processes are called the -------------- of that process
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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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Which of the following is NOT a Hardware Resource.
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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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A major problem with priority scheduling algorithms is ______.
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First-Come, First-Served (FCFS) is a --------------scheduling algorithm.
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Mkfifo() is a _______.
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In Layered approach of OS, Lowest Layer is known as ________.
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A solution to the critical section problem must satisfy the following requirements
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When process opens its first file explicitly it will get descriptor number ______
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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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Files that start with a -------- in UNIX/Linux directory structure are known as hidden files .
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In Unix/ Linux, by default the standard input file is attached to the ___________
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You can create a threads by using the pthread_create() call.
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First _______ entries in Per Process File Descriptor Table are used as soon as the process is created.
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You can use the rm file1 command to __________ file1
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_______ is also called Swapper.
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------------has a hierarchical file system structure.
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The main characteristic of a Real time system is
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Cooperating processes never share any data, code, memory or state.
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Banker‟s algorithm is used for ________________
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The nice value helps in assigning ______ to a process.
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DOS is single user operating system.
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A_____ is an abstract key for accessing a file.
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In Linux directory structure, there is ___________ root directory.
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Kernel is responsible for scheduling the user level threads.
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The execution of critical sections must NOT be mutually exclusive
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OS helps manages the following except
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A semaphore that cause Busy-Waiting is termed as .
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Using _________system, we can create a new process in Linux.
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Mach, MacOS X Server, QNX, OS/2 and Windows NT are examples of OS Based on ______.
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/usr/X11R6 is used by the X Window System.
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--------------command to resume the execution of a suspended job in the foreground
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___________ is used in real time operating systems.
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Linux Treats Devices as Files.
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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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