CS604-Midterm
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Preventing a condition of ________ to happen, deadlocks can be prevented to happen.
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A solution to the critical section problem must satisfy the following requirements
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User mode can run the Privileged instructions.
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You can use the ------------- command to display the status of suspended and background processes
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Command-line interpreter is also called __________ in some operating systems.
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If your processor does not have two slots empty in Per Process File Descriptor Table, then your _________ system call will fail.
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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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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 Home Directory for superuser in Linux and Unix is
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Which register holds the smallest legal physical memory address for a process?
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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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Each page is a power of -------- bytes long in paging scheme.
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Preemptive ----------------scheduling is sometimes called shortestremaining-time-first scheduling.
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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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When a process opens its first file explicitly it will get descriptor number _________
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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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A semaphore that cause Busy-Waiting is termed as .
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/usr/X11R6 is used by the X Window System.
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___________ algorithm is used in Deadlock avoidance.
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Mach, MacOS X Server, QNX, OS/2 and Windows NT are examples of OS Based on ______.
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Hardware provide basic computing resource.
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The Shortest-Job-First Scheduling algorithm can be
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You can use the rm file1 command to __________ file1
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Time interval when the I/O Devices are accessed is known as --------.
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This condition is known as ______________.
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Database, Complier, Video games are examples of ________.
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In Layered Approach of OS, the Layer highest Layer is User Interface layer.
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User Goal of OS is that It easy to use, reliable, safe and fast.
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_______ is also called Swapper.
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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 time it takes for the dispatcher to stop one process and start another running is known as the-----------.
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Linux is a version of _______ operating system.
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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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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 time sharing system is
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Which part of the computer system helps in managing the file and memory management system?
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The hardware mechanism that enables a device to notify CPU is called an -------------
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Bounded Buffer is a buffer of ____________ size
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Cache is non-volatile memory.
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__________ displays information about the top processes.
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The -------------- system call suspends the calling process.
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Utilities used for system administration (halt, ifconfig, fdisk, etc.) are stored in _____________ directory.
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When process opens its first file explicitly it will get descriptor number ______
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First-Come, First-Served (FCFS) is a --------------scheduling algorithm.
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The critical section problem can be solved by the following except
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A parent process calling __________ system call will be suspended until children process terminates.
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If the fork system call fails, it returns
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