CS604-Midterm
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In ________addressing, the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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Swapper is also termed as Short term scheduler.
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Operating System provides services such as Managing Primary and Secondary Storage, Processes and Allowing user to manage his/her files and directories.
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If a system is not in a safe state, there can be No deadlocks.
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A semaphore that cause Busy-Waiting is termed as ___________.
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_________ command to resume the execution of a suspended job in the foreground
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The bottom layer in the layered approach of Operating System is-----------
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Cache is non-volatile memory.
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___________ is used in real time operating systems.
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In ---------addressing; the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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The nice value helps in assigning ______ to a process.
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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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Shared libraries and kernel modules are stored in directory
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The execution of critical sections must NOT be mutually exclusive
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The returned code to the child process after successful fork system call execution is
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A process consists of __________
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In deadlock detection and recovery algorithm, a deadlock exists in the system if and only if the wait for graph contains a _____________
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The Home Directory for superuser in Linux and Unix is
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A program in execution is called a _______________.
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The main characteristic of a Real time system is
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You can terminate a foreground process by pressing --------------
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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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We can install and run multiple OS by using VMWare.
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Utilities used for system administration (halt, ifconfig, fdisk, etc.) are stored in _____________ directory.
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Which part of the computer system helps in managing the file and memory management system?
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In Unix/ Linux, by default the standard input file is attached to the ___________
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The basic purpose of ________________is to help the users to utilize the hardware resources for completing different tasks in a simplified manner
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The critical section problem can be solved by the following except
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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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A parent process calling __________ system call will be suspended until children process terminates.
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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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------------ register contains the size of the process
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The performance of Round Robin algorithm does NOT depends heavily on the size of the time quantum.
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The Operating system is a layer of software between _________ and ___________.
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Each page is a power of -------- bytes long in paging scheme.
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Starvation is infinite blocking caused due to unavailability of resources.
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Hardware provide basic computing resource.
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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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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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The -----------scheme is not applicable to a resource allocation system with multiple instances of each resource type.
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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 priority of a process can be changed using ___________ command.
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____ is a virtual directory in Linux and Unix.
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Which of the following is NOT a Hardware Resource.
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A_____ is an abstract key for accessing a file.
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_________________ scheduling allows a process to move between queues.
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________________ is an integer variable accessible through wait and signal which are atomic operations.
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Bounded Buffer is a buffer of ____________ size
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Command-line interpreter is also called __________ in some operating systems.
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