CS604-Midterm
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_____________ determines How to do something.
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Progress and Bounded Waiting are some of the characteristics to solve the critical section problems.
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The critical section problem can be solved by the following except
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When a process opens its first file explicitly it will get descriptor number _________
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Files that start with a -------- in UNIX/Linux directory structure are known as hidden files .
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The process of switching from one process to another is called latency.
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Cache is non-volatile memory.
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User mode can run the Privileged instructions.
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The interval from the time of submission to the time of completion is the ______
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We can install and run multiple OS by using VMWare.
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The number of processes completed per unit time is called ___________.
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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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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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The -----------scheme is not applicable to a resource allocation system with multiple instances of each resource type.
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__________ scheduler selects the process from the job pool and put them in main memory.
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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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Linux uses ___________ directory to store system configuration files.
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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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The main characteristic of a Real time system is
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I/O instructions are Privileged Instructions.
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Time interval when the I/O Devices are accessed is known as --------.
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The scheduling of ______ are done by the operating system.
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Which register holds the smallest legal physical memory address for a process?
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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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A program in execution is called a _______________.
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The -------------- system call suspends the calling process.
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copy file1 file2 is an example of ______ OS view.
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You can create a threads by using the pthread_create() call.
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Preventing a condition of ________ to happen, deadlocks can be prevented to happen.
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You can use the rm file1 command to __________ file1
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A dashed line is used to represent a _________ in Resource Allocation Graph.
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If the fork system call fails, it returns
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__________ displays information about the top processes.
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The Purpose of Operating System is to generate Executable Programs and to _______ them.
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The correct command for compiling C program named program.c in Linux environment is
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------------has a hierarchical file system structure.
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n-process critical section problem can be solved by using
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A process is said to be in critical section if it executes code that manipulates shared data
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In Linux directory structure, there is ___________ root directory.
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Hardware provide basic computing resource.
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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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DOS is single user operating system.
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In Unix/ Linux, by default the standard input file is attached to the ___________
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The process id returned to the child process after successful fork system call execution is _____________.
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This condition is known as ______________.
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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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Bounded Buffer is a buffer of ____________ size
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The major advantage of multi-programming system is
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Each page is a power of -------- bytes long in paging scheme.
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_________________ scheduling allows a process to move between queues.
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