CS604-Midterm
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________ scheduling algorithm is sometimes called shortest remaining time first scheduling algorithm.
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____ is a virtual directory in Linux and Unix.
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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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The Home Directory for superuser in Linux and Unix is
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Operating system enables the user to use the Hardware Resources.
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User mode can run the Privileged instructions.
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The following is NOT a classical problem of synchronization
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Kernel is responsible for scheduling the user level threads.
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When a process opens its first file explicitly it will get descriptor number _________
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DOS is single user operating system.
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__________ displays information about the top processes.
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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 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.
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Binary semaphores are those that have only two values---------
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The manual pages can be read in Linux using ____ command.
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The major advantage of multi-programming system is
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The main characteristic of a Real time system is
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POSIX is a standard developed by ANSI
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The execution of critical sections must NOT be mutually exclusive
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The process of switching from one process to another is called ---------------.
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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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We can install and run multiple OS by using VMWare.
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Cache is non-volatile memory.
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In ---------addressing; the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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_________________ scheduling allows a process to move between queues.
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________ determines What will be done.
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Each page is a power of -------- bytes long in paging scheme.
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The process id returned to the child process after successful fork system call execution is _____________.
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__________ scheduler selects the process from the job pool and put them in main memory.
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A_______ is an integer variable that, apart from initialization is accessible only through two standard atomic operations: wait and signal.
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Command-line interpreter is also called __________ in some operating systems.
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___________ is used in real time operating systems.
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Which of the following is NOT a Hardware Resource.
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-------- command gives a snapshot of the current processes.
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Preventing a condition of ________ to happen, deadlocks can be prevented to happen.
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Progress and Bounded Waiting are some of the characteristics to solve the critical section problems.
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The process of switching from one process to another is called latency.
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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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_______ is also called Swapper.
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The priorities of processes in the __________ group remain fixed.
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__________ directory includes essential system boot files including the kernel image.
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In ________addressing, the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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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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The Shortest-Job-First Scheduling algorithm can be
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Users are the People, machines or computers that uses the Hardware resources.
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A semaphore that cause Busy-Waiting is termed as ___________.
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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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________________ is an integer variable accessible through wait and signal which are atomic operations.
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