CS604-Midterm
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A parent process calling __________ system call will be suspended until children process terminates.
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_______ is also called Swapper.
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Which of the Following is not an Operating System.
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A system call________
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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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-------- command gives a snapshot of the current processes.
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Database, Complier, Video games are examples of ________.
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The process of switching from one process to another is called ---------------.
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________ scheduling algorithm is sometimes called shortest remaining time first scheduling algorithm.
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You can use the ---------command in UNIX to create a directory.
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_____________ determines How to do something.
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The priorities of processes in the __________ group remain fixed.
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A time sharing system is
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Operating System is the Manager of Hardware Resources.
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The nice value helps in assigning ______ to a process.
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Swapper is also termed as Short term scheduler.
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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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_____________ is a preemptive scheduling algorithm.
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A semaphore that cause Busy-Waiting is termed as .
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__________ integer shows the highest priority of a process in CPU scheduling
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___________ is a solution to the problem of indefinite blockage of low-priority processes.
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The process id returned to the child process after successful fork system call execution is _____________.
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________________ is an integer variable accessible through wait and signal which are atomic operations.
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Which of the following is NOT a Hardware Resource.
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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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___________ 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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Mkfifo() is a _______.
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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 interval from the time of submission to the time of completion is the ______
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The hardware mechanism that enables a device to notify CPU is called an -------------
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Round Robin algorithm is similar to ____________ scheduling but preemption is added to switch between processes.
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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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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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You can display all of the signals supported by your system, along with their numbers, by using the -----------command
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You can use the ------------- command to display the status of suspended and background processes
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copy file1 file2 is an example of ______ OS view.
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User mode can run the Privileged instructions.
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Banker‟s algorithm is used for ________________
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The correct command for compiling C program named program.c in Linux environment is
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Bounded Buffer is a buffer of ____________ size
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__________ commands in Linux is used to copy file
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______scheduler selects the process from the job pool and put them in main memory.
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In Layered approach of OS, Lowest Layer is known as ________.
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__________ directory includes essential system boot files including the kernel image.
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In ---------addressing, the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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Mach, MacOS X Server, QNX, OS/2 and Windows NT are examples of OS Based on ______.
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Cooperating processes never share any data, code, memory or state.
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The number of processes completed per unit time is called ___________.
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Preemptive ----------------scheduling is sometimes called shortestremaining-time-first scheduling.
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Managing Secondary Storage Involves all of the Following except
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