CS604-Midterm
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_____________ determines How to do something.
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_________ command to resume the execution of a suspended job in the foreground
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A parent process calling __________ system call will be suspended until children process terminates.
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Linux uses ___________ directory to store system configuration files.
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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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In Unix/ Linux, by default the standard output file is attached to the ___________
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Progress and Bounded Waiting are some of the characteristics to solve the critical section problems.
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Banker‟s algorithm is used for ________________
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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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The process of holding at least one resource and waiting to acquire additional resources that are currently being held by other processes is known as________.
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Which of the Following is not an Operating System.
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A time sharing system is
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Managing Secondary Storage Involves all of the Following except
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POSIX is a standard developed by ANSI
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_________buffer places no practical limit on the size of the buffer
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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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_____ system call is used to write to a file or FIFO or any other IPC channel.
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n-process critical section problem can be solved by using
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_________________ scheduling allows a process to move between queues.
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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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Operating system enables the user to use the Hardware Resources.
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The critical section problem can be solved by the following except
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The time it takes for the dispatcher to stop one process and start another running is known as the-----------.
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If the fork system call fails, it returns
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User mode can run the Privileged instructions.
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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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OS helps manages the following except
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-------- command gives a snapshot of the current processes.
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The bottom-up view is that operating system is a resource manager who manages the hardware and software resources in the computer system.
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Shared libraries and kernel modules are stored in directory
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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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In Layered Approach of OS, the Layer highest Layer is User Interface layer.
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Linux is a version of _______ operating system.
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______scheduler selects the process from the job pool and put them in main memory.
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In Linux directory structure, there is ___________ root directory.
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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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First-Come, First-Served (FCFS) is a --------------scheduling algorithm.
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In ---------addressing; the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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___________ is a solution to the problem of indefinite blockage of low-priority processes.
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The Purpose of Operating System is to generate Executable Programs and to _______ them.
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The Shortest-Job-First Scheduling algorithm can be
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The execution of critical sections must NOT be mutually exclusive
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Preventing a condition of ________ to happen, deadlocks can be prevented to happen.
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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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___________ algorithm is used in Deadlock avoidance.
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I MB or 1 megabyte is equivalent to----
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A program in execution is called a _______________.
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A system call________
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First _______ entries in Per Process File Descriptor Table are used as soon as the process is created.
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