CS604-Midterm
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Shared libraries and kernel modules are stored in directory
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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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User mode can run the Privileged instructions.
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This condition is known as ______________.
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If a system is not in a safe state, there can be No deadlocks.
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Cooperating processes never share any data, code, memory or state.
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A semaphore that cause Busy-Waiting is termed as ___________.
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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 a piece of code in a cooperating process in which the process may updates shared data (variable, file, database, etc.).
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You can create a threads by using the pthread_create() call.
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Files that start with a -------- in UNIX/Linux directory structure are known as hidden files .
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Each page is a power of -------- bytes long in paging scheme.
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The hardware mechanism that enables a device to notify CPU is called an -------------
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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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Linux uses ___________ directory to store system configuration files.
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Which of the Following is not an Operating System.
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Command-line interpreter is also called __________ in some operating systems.
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___________ is a solution to the problem of indefinite blockage of low-priority processes.
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________ determines What will be done.
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_____________ determines How to do something.
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The process of switching from one process to another is called ---------------.
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A_______ is an integer variable that, apart from initialization is accessible only through two standard atomic operations: wait and signal.
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Linux is a version of _______ operating system.
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In ________addressing, the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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Physical memory is broken down into fixed-sized blocks, called----------- and Logical memory is divided into blocks of the same size, called -----------
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Batch programs are usually _________ programs.
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The returned code to the child process after successful fork system call execution is
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An operating system is a control program that manages the execution of user programs to prevent errors and improper use of a computer.
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________________ is an integer variable accessible through wait and signal which are atomic operations.
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I MB or 1 megabyte is equivalent to----
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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 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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_________ command to resume the execution of a suspended job in the foreground
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/usr/X11R6 is used by the X Window System.
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A_____ is an abstract key for accessing a file.
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Mkfifo() is a _______.
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The -------------- system call suspends the calling process.
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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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You can use the ------------- command to display the status of suspended and background processes
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The Home Directory for superuser in Linux and Unix is
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Which of the following is correct definition for wait operation?
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You can use the ---------command in UNIX to create a directory.
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The bottom layer in the layered approach of Operating System 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 process id returned to the child process after successful fork system call execution is _____________.
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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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__________ scheduler selects the process from the job pool and put them in main memory.
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Which part of the computer system helps in managing the file and memory management system?
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I/O instructions are Privileged Instructions.
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Linux Treats Devices as Files.
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