Saturday, 1 March 2014

OPERATING SYSTEM SOLVED MCQS

1) An example of a distributed OS is
a.) Amoeba
b.) Unix 
c.) Microsoft DOS
d.) Multics
Ans.: c.)

2) In process management, Round-Robin is essentially the pre-emptive mechanism of
a.) FILO
b.) FIFO
c.) SSF
d.) LTF
Ans.: b.)

3) Which of the following treats hardware as a file system
a.) DOS
b.) UNIX
c.) Windows NT
d.) Linux
Ans.: b.) 

4) Find the pre-emptive scheduling algorithm from the following
a.) Round robin technique
b.) Priority based 
c.) Shortest job first
d.) Shortest job next
Ans.: a.)

5) The directory found in most UNIX systems is
a.) waitpid
b.) brk
c.) unmap
d.)usr
Ans.: d.)

6) The storage replacement strategy program placed in the largest hole in memory is
a.)Best fit
b.) First fit
c.) Worst fit
d.) Conference fit
Ans.: c.)

7) Banker's algorithm is used for
a.) Deadlock recovery
b.) Deadlock avoidance
c.) Deadlock prevention
d.) Deadlock comparison
Ans.: b.)

8) Peer hole optimization is an example of
a.) Local optimization
b.) Laptop optimization
c.) Data flow analysis
d.) Constant folding
Ans.: d.)

9) A software used to create job queue is
a.) Linkage editor
b.) Interpreter
c.) Caller
d.) Spooler
Ans.: d.)

10) Loading an OS from secondary memory to primary memory
a.) Compiling
b.) Booting
c.) Refreshing
d.) Recovering
Ans.: b.)

11) A page fault 
a.) is an error specific page.
b.) is an acess to the page not currently in memory.
c.) occur when a page program occur in a page memory.
d.) pages used in previous page referencee.
Ans.: b.)

12) Moving process from main memory to disk is called 
a.) Caching
b.) Swapping
c.) Termination
d.) Interruption
Ans.: b.)

13)Windows is 
a.) Real time
b.) Multi-user
c.) Multi-structured
d.) Pre-emptive
Ans.: d.)

14) The page replacement policy that suffers from belady's anamoly is 
a.) LRV
b.) FIFO
c.) LFU
d.) OPTIMAL
Ans.: b.)

15) Cache memory is
a.) High speed register
b.)Low speed RAM
c.) Non-Volatile ram
d.)High speed RAM
Ans.: d.)

16) A system program that combines the separately compiled modules of a program into a form suitable for execution 
 A. Assembler
 B. Linking loader
 C. Cross compiler
 D. None of the above
Ans.:B

17) Where does the swap space residable? 
 A. RAM
 B. Disk
 C. ROM
 D. On chip cache
Ans.:B

18) Multilevel feedback queue scheduling 
 A. Allows to select a process and load it to memory for execution
 B. Allows to select a process ,that are ready to execute and allows CPU to one of them
 C. Does not allow a process to move between queues.
 D. Allows processes which are permanently assigned to a queue on the entry to the system
Ans.:D

19) Which of the following scheduler reduces the degree of multiprogramming? 
 A. Long term scheduler
 B. Short term scheduler
 C. Mid term scheduler
 D. None of these
Ans.:C

20) Which of the following types of terminals is entirely dependent for all its capabilities on the computer system to which it is connected? 
 A. Smart terminal
 B. Dumb terminal
 C. Micro computer
 D. None of these
Ans.:B

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