CS604-Midterm
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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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We can install and run multiple OS by using VMWare.
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------------ register contains the size of the process
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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 integer value of ________semaphores can range over an unrestricted integer domain.
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___________ is a solution to the problem of indefinite blockage of low-priority processes.
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__________ displays information about the top processes.
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In indirect inter process communication, a sender_____mention the name of the recipient.
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Binary semaphores are those that have only two values---------
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A semaphore that cause Busy-Waiting is termed as ___________.
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-------- command gives a snapshot of the current processes.
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Linux is a version of _______ operating system.
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The process of holding at least one resource and waiting to acquire additional resources that are currently being held by other processes is known as________.
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/usr/X11R6 is used by the X Window System.
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A pathname is the list of directories separated by _________.
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A parent process calling __________ system call will be suspended until children process terminates.
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Files that start with a -------- in UNIX/Linux directory structure are known as hidden files .
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Which register holds the smallest legal physical memory address for a process?
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The bottom layer in the layered approach of Operating System is-----------
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Utilities used for system administration (halt, ifconfig, fdisk, etc.) are stored in _____________ directory.
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Shared libraries and kernel modules are stored in directory
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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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The process of switching from one process to another is called latency.
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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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You can use the rm file1 command to __________ file1
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IPC provides a mechanism to allow processes to communicate and to synchronize their actions without sharing the same__________
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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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Preventing a condition of ________ to happen, deadlocks can be prevented to happen.
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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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_________ command to resume the execution of a suspended job in the foreground
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Taking the CPU from one process and giving the CPU to another process is termed as
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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 process opens its first file explicitly it will get descriptor number ______
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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 creating process is called a--------------- process while the new processes are called the -------------- of that 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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Progress and Bounded Waiting are some of the characteristics to solve the critical section problems.
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Hardware provide basic computing resource.
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The nice value helps in assigning ______ to a process.
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The critical section problem can be solved by the following except
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Which of the following is correct definition for wait operation?
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I/O instructions are Privileged Instructions.
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I MB or 1 megabyte is equivalent to----
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The manual pages can be read in Linux using ____ command.
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Time interval when the I/O Devices are accessed is known as --------.
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Which of the Following is not an Operating System.
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This condition is known as ______________.
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You can create a threads by using the pthread_create() call.
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In Unix/ Linux, by default the standard input file is attached to the ___________
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