CS604-Midterm
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Cooperating processes never share any data, code, memory or state.
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--------------command to resume the execution of a suspended job in the foreground
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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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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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You can terminate a foreground process by pressing --------------
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A process consists of __________
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Mach, MacOS X Server, QNX, OS/2 and Windows NT are examples of OS Based on ______.
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The critical section problem can be solved by the following except
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_________________ scheduling allows a process to move between queues.
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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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Bounded Buffer is a buffer of ____________ size
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Time interval when the I/O Devices are accessed is known as --------.
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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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Each page is a power of -------- bytes long in paging scheme.
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The Shortest-Job-First Scheduling algorithm can be
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Which of the Following is not an Operating System.
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___________ is used in real time operating systems.
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A major problem with priority scheduling algorithms is ______.
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Kernel is responsible for scheduling the user level threads.
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The interval from the time of submission to the time of completion is the ______
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Operating system enables the user to use the Hardware Resources.
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Shared libraries and kernel modules are stored in directory
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The bottom-up view is that operating system is a resource manager who manages the hardware and software resources in the computer system.
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___________ is a solution to the problem of indefinite blockage of low-priority processes.
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------------ register contains the size of the process
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____ is a virtual directory in Linux and Unix.
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The hardware mechanism that enables a device to notify CPU is called an -------------
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_____________ determines How to do something.
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All threads within a process share the ________ address space.
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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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Hardware provide basic computing resource.
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Which of the following is NOT a Hardware Resource.
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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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The process of switching from one process to another is called latency.
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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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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 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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You can create a threads by using the pthread_create() call.
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If the fork system call fails, it returns
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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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The following is NOT a classical problem of synchronization
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User Goal of OS is that It easy to use, reliable, safe and fast.
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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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The major advantage of multi-programming system is
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A pathname is the list of directories separated by _________.
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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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__________ commands in Linux is used to copy file
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Linux uses ___________ directory to store system configuration files.
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__________ scheduler selects the process from the job pool and put them in main memory.
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Linux is a version of _______ operating system.
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