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Question Option A Option B Option C Option D Answer

collection of programs that manages system service provider to the link to interface the hardware and
1 What is operating system? All of the above D
hardware resources application programs application programs
to get and execute the next user-specified to provide the interface between the API
2 What is the main function of the command interpreter? to handle the files in operating system All of the above A
command and application program
Which one of the following error will be handle by the
3 power failure lack of paper in printer connection failure in the network All of the above D
operating system?
To access the services of operating system, the interface is
4 System calls API Library Assembly instructions A
provided by the ___________
5 Program execution Services are used to Control Program Execute Program Update Program Delete Program B
6 Linux is Closed Source Open Source Freeware Both B and C D
7 Linux uses system calls to request a specific Unix Srvice Windows Service Kernal Service All Of These C
8 Time Sharing handles Single Interactive Job Multiple Interactive Jobs Recent Jobs None of the above B
9 A process is known to be collection of Jobs Programs Threads All of the above C

10 The OS has Monolithic Kernel Microkernels monolithic kernel with modules hybrid Kernel D
pending alarms, signals and signal
11 In operating system, each process has its own __________ address space and global variables open files all of the mentioned D
handlers
A Process Control Block(PCB) does not contain which of
12 Code Stack Bootstrap program Data C
the following?
The use of multiprogramming Batch Processing makes
13 Efficient Rigid Flexible Expensive A
system

The number of processes completed per unit time is

14 Output Throughput Efficiency Capacity B
known as __________

15 Which of the following is a state of a process? New Running Ready All of the above D
16 What is a Process Control Block? Process type variable Data Structure A secondary storage section A Block in memory B
17 IPC related system calls are used for____ Termination Execution Communication None of the above C
18 Which of the following is not a valid file system FAT 16 FAT 32 NTFS FXZ D
19 Virtual Memory typically located on________ RAM Hard Drive CPU Flash Drive B
20 Tree Structure displays the File Only Directory only File and Directory name None of the above B
selects which process to bring to ready selects which process is to be executed selects which process to remove from main
21 A short term scheduler __________ None of the above B
queue next next and allocates CPU memory by swapping
If a process is executing in critical section, no other
22 process can be executing in their critical section. This Mutual Exclusion Critical Exclusion Synchronization None of the above A
condition is known as ________
23 Which of the following is a synchronization tool? Thread Pipe Semaphore Socket C
a process may hold allocated resources
Which of the following condition is required for a no resource can be forcibly removed from
24 mutual exclusion while awaiting assignment of other all of the mentioned D
deadlock to be possible? a process holding it
resources
Which one of the following is the deadlock avoidance
25 banker’s algorithm round-robin algorithm elevator algorithm karn’s algorithm A
algorithm?
 the system can allocate resources to each
26 A system is in the safe state if ____________ process in some order and still avoid a there exist a safe sequence all of the mentioned None of the above A
deadlock
Run time mapping from virtual to physical address is done
27 Memory management unit CPU PCI None of the mentioned A
by ____________
a technique for overcoming internal a technique for overcoming external
28 What is compaction? a paging technique a technique for overcoming fatal error C
fragmentation fragmentation
Which one of the following is the address generated by
29 physical address logical address absolute address none of the mentioned B
CPU?
In fixed size partition, the degree of multiprogramming is
30 the number of partitions the CPU utilization the memory size Both B and C A
bounded by ___________
31 With paging there is no ________ fragmentation. internal external either type of none of the mentioned B
32 Paging increases the ______ time. waiting execution context – switch all of the mentioned C
In segmentation, each address is specified by
33 a segment number & offset an offset & value a value & segment number a key & value A
____________
Illusion of extremely large secondary
34 Virtual memory is _____________ Extremely large main memory Extremely large secondary memory Illusion of extremely large main memory C
memory

When device A has a cable that plugs into device B, and

device B has a cable that plugs into device C and device C
35 port daisy chain bus cable B
plugs into a port on the computer, this arrangement is
called a _________

The _________ present a uniform device-access interface

to the I/O subsystem, much as system calls provide a
36 Devices Buses Device drivers I/O systems C
standard interface between the application and the
operating system.

can be used concurrently by several

37 What is a dedicated device? can be used by single process at a time same as a sharable device none of the mentioned A
processes
38 Buffering is done to ____________ cope with device speed mismatch cope with device transfer size mismatch maintain copy semantics all of the mentioned A
Which of the following is a method of disk space
39 Contiguous allocation Indexed allocation Linked allocation All of the above D
allocation
Management of metadata information is done by
40 file-organisation module logical file system basic file system application programs B
____________
If the block of free-space list is free then bit will
41 1 0 any of 0 or 1 none of the mentioned A
____________
42 Which of the following are the two parts of the file name? name & identifier identifier & type extension & name type & extension C
43 The banker's algorithm is to detect deadlock to prevent deadlock to recover from deadlock to avoid deadlock B
In the sequential access method, information in the file is one disk after the other, record access
44 one record after the other one text document after the other none of the mentioned B
processed ____________ doesnt matter
45 Which one of the following is not a linux distribution? debian gentoo open SUSE multics D
46 Which command is used to display the kernal release date uname -r uname -n uname -t kernel A
 Which command is used to view compressed text file
47 cat type zcat print C
contents
48 Which command is used to identify file type? Type File Finfo Info B
49 pwd command displays user password password file content present working directory none of the mentioned C
50 Command used to count number of character in a file is grep wc count cut B