CS604-Midterm
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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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A pathname is the list of directories separated by _________.
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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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I MB or 1 megabyte is equivalent to----
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Operating system enables the user to use the Hardware Resources.
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__________ commands in Linux is used to copy file
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In ---------addressing; the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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The -------------- system call suspends the calling process.
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Round Robin algorithm is similar to ____________ scheduling but preemption is added to switch between processes.
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The process of switching from one process to another is called ---------------.
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The hardware mechanism that enables a device to notify CPU is called an -------------
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Users are the People, machines or computers that uses the Hardware resources.
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You can display all of the signals supported by your system, along with their numbers, by using the -----------command
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Utilities used for system administration (halt, ifconfig, fdisk, etc.) are stored in _____________ directory.
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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 number of processes completed per unit time is called ___________.
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The process id returned to the child process after successful fork system call execution is _____________.
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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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Linux uses ___________ directory to store system configuration files.
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The returned code to the child process after successful fork system call execution is
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In Unix/ Linux, by default the standard input file is attached to the ___________
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A process consists of __________
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__________ integer shows the highest priority of a process in CPU scheduling
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___________ algorithm is used in Deadlock avoidance.
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Preventing a condition of ________ to happen, deadlocks can be prevented to happen.
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n-process critical section problem can be solved by using
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_______ is also called Swapper.
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Which register holds the smallest legal physical memory address for a process?
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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 integer value of ________semaphores can range over an unrestricted integer domain.
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A time sharing system is
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You can use the rm file1 command to __________ file1
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Linux is a version of _______ operating system.
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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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The correct command for compiling C program named program.c in Linux environment is
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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 critical section problem can be solved by the following except
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Which of the Following is not an Operating System.
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Starvation is infinite blocking caused due to unavailability of resources.
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You can use the ------------- command to display the status of suspended and background processes
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The interval from the time of submission to the time of completion is the ______
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Progress and Bounded Waiting are some of the characteristics to solve the critical section problems.
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You can create a threads by using the pthread_create() call.
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When a process opens its first file explicitly it will get descriptor number _________
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________ scheduling algorithm is sometimes called shortest remaining time first scheduling algorithm.
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Swapper is also termed as Short term scheduler.
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Which part of the computer system helps in managing the file and memory management system?
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The Home Directory for superuser in Linux and Unix is
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The address generated by the CPU, after any indexing or other addressing-mode arithmetic, is called a --------address, and the address it gets translated to by the MMU is called a ---------address.
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