CS604-Midterm
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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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POSIX is a standard developed by ANSI
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In ---------addressing, the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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A ---------------- (or an exception) is a software-generated interrupt caused either by an error (division by zero or invalid memory access) or by a user request for an operating system service.
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The following requirement for solving critical section problem is known as ______. “There exists a bound on the number of times that other processes are allowed to enter their critical sections after a process has made a request to enter its critical section and before that request is granted.”
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__________ integer shows the highest priority of a process in CPU scheduling
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The interval from the time of submission to the time of completion is 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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A process consists of __________
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If a system is not in a safe state, there can be No deadlocks.
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In indirect inter process communication, a sender ________ mention the name of the recipient.
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__________ commands in Linux is used to copy file
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Command-line interpreter is also called __________ in some operating systems.
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The scheduling of ______ are done by the operating system.
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The priorities of processes in the __________ group remain fixed.
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Which of the following is NOT a Hardware Resource.
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Preventing a condition of ________ to happen, deadlocks can be prevented to happen.
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The ________ requires that once a writer is ready, that writer performs its write as soon as possible , if a writer waiting to access the object, no new readers may start reading.
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The hardware mechanism that enables a device to notify CPU is called an -------------
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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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The critical section problem can be solved by the following except
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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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The priority of a process can be changed using ___________ command.
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___________ is used in real time operating systems.
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_____________ determines How to do something.
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A major problem with priority scheduling algorithms is ______.
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Which of the Following is not an Operating System.
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Time interval when the I/O Devices are accessed is known as --------.
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____ command display the status of a process.
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The integer value of ________semaphores can range over an unrestricted integer domain.
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Cooperating processes never share any data, code, memory or state.
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First-Come, First-Served (FCFS) is a --------------scheduling algorithm.
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The main characteristic of a Real time system is
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command displays the contents of current working directory.
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-------- command gives a snapshot of the current processes.
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If the fork system call fails, it returns
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In Unix/ Linux, by default the standard output file is attached to the ___________
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Each page is a power of -------- bytes long in paging scheme.
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In ---------addressing; the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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_________buffer places no practical limit on the size of the buffer
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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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In Layered approach of OS, Lowest Layer is known as ________.
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Mach, MacOS X Server, QNX, OS/2 and Windows NT are examples of OS Based on ______.
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Taking the CPU from one process and giving the CPU to another process is termed as
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__________ scheduler selects the process from the job pool and put them in main memory.
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Hardware provide basic computing resource.
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Binary semaphores are those that have only two values---------
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User mode can run the Privileged instructions.
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Current working directory can be accessed using --------- Command.
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n-process critical section problem can be solved by using
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