CS604-Midterm
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Cooperating processes never share any data, code, memory or state.
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Operating system enables the user to use the Hardware Resources.
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________ scheduling algorithm is sometimes called shortest remaining time first scheduling algorithm.
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Which of the following is NOT a Hardware Resource.
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We can install and run multiple OS by using VMWare.
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command displays the contents of current working directory.
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Which of the following is correct definition for wait operation?
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In indirect inter process communication, a sender ________ mention the name of the recipient.
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Which register holds the smallest legal physical memory address for a process?
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In indirect inter process communication, a sender_____mention the name of the recipient.
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Operating System is the Manager of Hardware Resources.
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In ---------addressing; the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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_____________ is a preemptive scheduling algorithm.
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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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POSIX is a standard developed by ANSI
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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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The process of switching from one process to another is called ---------------.
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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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This condition is known as ______________.
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The correct command for compiling C program named program.c in Linux environment is
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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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A solution to the critical section problem must satisfy the following requirements
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Users are the People, machines or computers that uses the Hardware resources.
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_____ system call is used to write to a file or FIFO or any other IPC channel.
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The manual pages can be read in Linux using ____ command.
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Mkfifo() is a _______.
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The priority of a process can be changed using ___________ command.
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copy file1 file2 is an example of ______ OS view.
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In Linux directory structure, there is ___________ root directory.
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Command-line interpreter is also called __________ in some operating systems.
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The -------------- system call suspends the calling process.
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------------ register contains the size of the process
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___________ is used in real time operating systems.
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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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A program in execution is called a _______________.
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In Layered Approach of OS, the Layer highest Layer is User Interface layer.
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rm and [r]mkdir commands are used to _____________ directory.
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An absolute pathname starts with the root directory (/) and a relative pathname starts with your home directory.
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When process opens its first file explicitly it will get descriptor number ______
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Each process must first request permission to enter its critical section. The section of code implementing this request is called the _____
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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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The _______ are used for communication between related or unrelated processes on the same system or unrelated processes on different systems.
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The returned code to the child process after successful fork system call execution is
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Current working directory can be accessed using --------- Command.
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/usr/X11R6 is used by the X Window System.
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What do we name to an address that is loaded into the memory-address register of the memory?
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The main characteristic of a Real time system is
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The Operating system is a layer of software between _________ and ___________.
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The major advantage of multi-programming system is
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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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