CS604-Midterm
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The 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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An absolute pathname starts with the root directory (/) and a relative pathname starts with your home directory.
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In Layered approach of OS, Lowest Layer is known as ________.
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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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The interval from the time of submission to the time of completion is the ______
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Time interval when the I/O Devices are accessed is known as --------.
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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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_____________ determines How to do something.
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The execution of critical sections must NOT be mutually exclusive
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Swapper is also termed as Short term scheduler.
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The process of switching from one process to another is called latency.
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________ scheduling algorithm is sometimes called shortest remaining time first scheduling algorithm.
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Bounded Buffer is a buffer of ____________ size
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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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Cache is non-volatile memory.
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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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In indirect inter process communication, a sender ________ mention the name of the recipient.
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The Home Directory for superuser in Linux and Unix is
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The process id returned to the child process after successful fork system call execution is _____________.
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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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This condition is known as ______________.
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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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The scheduling of ______ are done by the operating system.
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The main characteristic of a Real time system is
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_______ is also called Swapper.
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____ command gives a snapshot of the current processes.
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Hardware provide basic computing resource.
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_____________ is the basis of queuing theory which is branch of mathematics used to analyze systems involving queues and servers.
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Which of the Following is not an Operating System.
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A ---------------- (or an exception) is a software-generated interrupt caused either by an error (division by zero or invalid memory access) or by a user request for an operating system service.
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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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_________________ scheduling allows a process to move between queues.
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The process of switching from one process to another is called ---------------.
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A process consists of __________
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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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In Unix/ Linux, by default the standard input file is attached to the ___________
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A program in execution is called a _______________.
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Which of the following is NOT a Hardware Resource.
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The priority of a process can be changed using ___________ command.
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Operating System is the Manager of Hardware Resources.
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In ---------addressing, the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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/usr/X11R6 is used by the X Window System.
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Current working directory can be accessed using --------- Command.
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You can terminate a foreground process by pressing --------------
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__________ scheduler selects the process from the job pool and put them in main memory.
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A semaphore that cause Busy-Waiting is termed as .
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The following is NOT a classical problem of synchronization
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The bottom layer in the layered approach of Operating System is-----------
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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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