CS604-Midterm
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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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If your processor does not have two slots empty in Per Process File Descriptor Table, then your _________ system call will fail.
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OS helps manages the following except
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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 -----------scheme is not applicable to a resource allocation system with multiple instances of each resource type.
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The Home Directory for superuser in Linux and Unix is
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In ---------addressing, the recipient is not required to name the sender.
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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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Managing Secondary Storage Involves all of the Following except
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/opt is used for storage of large applications.
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Using _________system, we can create a new process in Linux.
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The following is NOT a classical problem of synchronization
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The Operating system is a layer of software between _________ and ___________.
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Which register holds the smallest legal physical memory address for a process?
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A semaphore that cause Busy-Waiting is termed as ___________.
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__________ commands in Linux is used to copy file
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/usr/X11R6 is used by the X Window System.
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Linux is a version of _______ operating system.
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The critical section problem can be solved by the following except
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------------has a hierarchical file system structure.
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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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Database, Complier, Video games are examples of ________.
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You can use the ------------- command to display the status of suspended and background processes
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-------- command gives a snapshot of the current processes.
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In Layered Approach of OS, the Layer highest Layer is User Interface layer.
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__________ integer shows the highest priority of a process in CPU scheduling
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The returned code to the child process after successful fork system call execution is
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Which of the following is NOT a Hardware Resource.
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A solution to the critical section problem must satisfy the following requirements
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Binary semaphores are those that have only two values---------
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A program in execution is called a _______________.
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A process consists of __________
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In indirect inter process communication, a sender_____mention the name of the recipient.
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The main characteristic of a Real time system is
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Files that start with a -------- in UNIX/Linux directory structure are known as hidden files .
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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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_____ system call is used to write to a file or FIFO or any other IPC channel.
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Cooperating processes never share any data, code, memory or state.
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In Layered approach of OS, Lowest Layer is known as ________.
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The nice value helps in assigning ______ to a process.
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First _______ entries in Per Process File Descriptor Table are used as soon as the process is created.
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User Goal of OS is that It easy to use, reliable, safe and fast.
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A semaphore that cause Busy-Waiting is termed as .
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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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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 integer value of ________semaphores can range over an unrestricted integer domain.
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If a system is not in a safe state, there can be No deadlocks.
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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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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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