CS604-Midterm
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The critical section problem can be solved by the following except
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Command-line interpreter is also called __________ in some operating systems.
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A solution to the critical section problem must satisfy the following requirements
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A parent process calling __________ system call will be suspended until children process terminates.
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The execution of critical sections must NOT be mutually exclusive
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Operating system enables the user to use the Hardware Resources.
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OS helps manages the following except
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Mach, MacOS X Server, QNX, OS/2 and Windows NT are examples of OS Based on ______.
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Which of the Following is not an Operating System.
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Hardware provide basic computing resource.
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In indirect inter process communication, a sender_____mention the name of the recipient.
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The process of switching from one process to another is called ---------------.
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A time sharing system is
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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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-------- command gives a snapshot of the current processes.
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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 following is NOT a classical problem of synchronization
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The Home Directory for superuser in Linux and Unix is
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/opt is used for storage of large applications.
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________________ is an integer variable accessible through wait and signal which are atomic operations.
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Current working directory can be accessed using --------- Command.
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The hardware mechanism that enables a device to notify CPU is called an -------------
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_______ is also called Swapper.
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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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The interval from the time of submission to the time of completion is the ______
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Using _________system, we can create a new process in Linux.
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_____________ determines How to do something.
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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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____ is a virtual directory in Linux and Unix.
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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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________ determines What will be done.
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If a system is not in a safe state, there can be No deadlocks.
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The process of switching from one process to another is called latency.
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In Unix/ Linux, by default the standard output file is attached to the ___________
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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 creating process is called a--------------- process while the new processes are called the -------------- of that process
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Cache is non-volatile memory.
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------------ register contains the size of the process
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You can create a threads by using the pthread_create() call.
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You can use the ------------- command to display the status of suspended and background processes
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The Shortest-Job-First Scheduling algorithm can be
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____ command display the status of a process.
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Binary semaphores are those that have only two values---------
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rm and [r]mkdir commands are used to _____________ directory.
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command displays the contents of current working directory.
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Bounded Buffer is a buffer of ____________ size
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In Linux directory structure, there is ___________ root directory.
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