CS604 Midterm Online Quiz

____ command display the status of a process.

Managing Secondary Storage Involves all of the Following except

Bounded Buffer is a buffer of ____________ size

Time interval when the I/O Devices are accessed is known as --------.

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.

Batch programs are usually _________ programs.

When process opens its first file explicitly it will get descriptor number ______

You can create a threads by using the pthread_create() call.

A process consists of __________

You can display all of the signals supported by your system, along with their numbers, by using the -----------command

Taking the CPU from one process and giving the CPU to another process is termed as

We can install and run multiple OS by using VMWare.

__________ directory includes essential system boot files including the kernel image.

The creating process is called a--------------- process while the new processes are called the -------------- of that process

Using _________system, we can create a new process in Linux.

The critical section problem can be solved by the following except

User mode can run the Privileged instructions.

The Top-down view is that it is a program that acts as an intermediary between a user of a computer and the computer hardware, and makes the computer system convenient to use.

The Shortest-Job-First Scheduling algorithm can be

_________buffer places no practical limit on the size of the buffer

You can display the contents (names of files and directories) of a directory in UNIX/Linux directory structure with the --------------- command.

/opt is used for storage of large applications.

In indirect inter process communication, a sender_____mention the name of the recipient.

The execution of critical sections must NOT be mutually exclusive

n-process critical section problem can be solved by using

Hardware provide basic computing resource.

The critical section problem can be solved by the following except

The hardware mechanism that enables a device to notify CPU is called an -------------

____ is a virtual directory in Linux and Unix.

/usr/X11R6 is used by the X Window System.

IPC provides a mechanism to allow processes to communicate and to synchronize their actions without sharing the same__________

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.

Mkfifo() is a _______.

The major advantage of multi-programming system is

Linux is a version of _______ operating system.

Physical memory is broken down into fixed-sized blocks, called----------- and Logical memory is divided into blocks of the same size, called -----------

All threads within a process share the ________ address space.

________________ is an integer variable accessible through wait and signal which are atomic operations.

In deadlock detection and recovery algorithm, a deadlock exists in the system if and only if the wait for graph contains a _____________

First-Come, First-Served (FCFS) is a --------------scheduling algorithm.

------------has a hierarchical file system structure.

A_____ is an abstract key for accessing a file.

_____________ is a preemptive scheduling algorithm.

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.

You can use the rm file1 command to __________ file1

--------------command to resume the execution of a suspended job in the foreground

The -------------- system call suspends the calling process.

Banker‟s algorithm is used for ________________

The Operating system is a layer of software between _________ and ___________.

In Unix/ Linux, by default the standard input file is attached to the ___________