Operating System Questions & Answers – Distributed Operating

System
This set of Operating System Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on
“Distributed Operating System”.

1. In distributed system each processor has its own

a) local memory
b) clock
c) both local memory and clock
d) none of the mentioned
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Answer: c
Explanation: None.
2. If one site fails in distributed system
a) the remaining sites can continue operating
b) all the sites will stop working
c) directly connected sites will stop working
d) none of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: None.
3. Network operating system runs on
a) server
b) every system in the network
c) both server and every system in the network
d) none of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: None.
4. Which technique is based on compile-time program transformation for accessing remote
data in a distributed-memory parallel system.
a) cache coherence scheme
b) computation migration
c) remote procedure call
d) message passing
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Answer: b
Explanation: None.
5. Logical extension of computation migration is
a) process migration
b) system migration
c) thread migration
d) data migration
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Answer: a
Explanation: None.
6. Processes on the remote systems are identified by
a) host ID
b) host name and identifier
c) identifier
d) process ID
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Answer: b
Explanation: None.
7. Which routing technique is used in distributed system?
a) fixed routing
b) virtual routing
c) dynamic routing
d) all of the mentioned
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Answer: d
Explanation: None.
8. In distributed systems, link and site failure is detected by
a) polling
b) handshaking
c) token passing
d) none of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: None.
9. The capability of a system to adapt the increased service load is called
a) scalability
b) tolerance
c) capacity
d) none of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: a
Explanation: None.
10. Internet provides _______ for remote login.
a) telnet
b) http
c) ftp
d) RPC
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Answer: a
Explanation: None.
Operating System Questions & Answers – Distributed Operating
System – Types & Resource Sharing
This set of Operating System Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on
“Distributed Operating System – Types & Resource Sharing”.

1. What is not true about distributed system ?

a) It is a collection of processor
b) All processors are synchronized
c) They do not share memory
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: None.
2. What are characteristics of processor in distributed system ?
a) They vary in size and function
b) They are same in size and function
c) They are manufactured with single purpose
d) They are real-time devices
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Answer: a
Explanation: None.
3. What are characteristics of distributed file system ?
a) Its users, servers and storage devices are dispersed
b) Service activity is not carried out across the network
c) They have single centralized data repository
d) There are multiple dependent storage devices
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Answer: a
Explanation: None.
4. What is not a major reason for building distributed systems ?
a) Resource sharing
b) Computation speedup
c) Reliability
d) Simplicity
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Answer: d
Explanation: None.
5. What are types of distributed operating system ?
a) Network Operating system
b) Zone based Operating system
c) Level based Operating system
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: None.
6. What are characteristic of Network Operating Systems ?
a) Users are aware of multiplicity of machines
b) They are transparent
c) They are simple to use
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: None.
7. How are access to resources of various machines is done ?
a) Remote logging using ssh or telnet
b) Zone are configured for automatic access
c) FTP is not used
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: None.
8. What are characteristics of Distributed Operating system ?
a) Users are aware of multiplicity of machines
b) Access is done like local resources
c) Users are aware of multiplicity of machines
d) They have multiple zones to access files
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Answer: b
Explanation: None.
9. What are characteristics of data migration ?
a) transfer data by entire file or immediate portion required
b) transfer the computation rather than the data
c) execute an entire process or parts of it at different sites
d) none of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: None.
10. What are characteristics of computation migration ?
a) transfer data by entire file or immediate portion required
b) transfer the computation rather than the data
c) execute an entire process or parts of it at different sites
d) none of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: None.
Operating System Questions & Answers – Distributed Operating
System – Network Structure & Topology
This set of Operating System Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on
“Distributed Operating System – Network Structure & Topology”.

1. What are parts of network structure ?

a) Workstation
b) Gateway
c) Laptop
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: d
Explanation: None.
2. What are valid network topology ?
a) Multiaccess bus
b) Ring
c) Star
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: d
Explanation: None.
3. What are sites in network topology compared ?
a) Basic cost
b) Communication cost
c) Reliability
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: d
Explanation: None.
4. Which design features of a communication network are important ?
a) Naming and name resolution
b) Routing strategies
c) Connection strategies
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: d
Explanation: None.
5. What are characteristics of Naming and Name resolution ?
a) name systems in the network
b) address messages with the process-id
c) virtual circuit
d) message switching
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Answer: b
Explanation: None.
6. What are routing strategies which is not used in distributed systems ?
a) Fixed routing
b) Token routing
c) Virtual circuit
d) Dynamic routing
View Answer
Answer: c
Explanation: None.
7. What are connection strategies not used in distributed systems ?
a) Circuit switching
b) Message switching
c) Token switching
d) Packet switching
View Answer
Answer: c
Explanation: None.
8. How is are collisions avoided in network ?
a) Carrier sense with multiple access (CSMA); collision detection (CD)
b) Carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance
c) Message slots
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: d
Explanation: None.
9. What is common problem found in distributed system ?
a) Process Synchronization
b) Communication synchronization
c) Deadlock problem
d) Power failure
View Answer
Answer: c
Explanation: None.
Operating System Questions & Answers – Distributed Operating
System – Robustness of Distributed Systems
This set of Operating System Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on
“Robustness of Distributed Systems”.

1. How many layers does Internet model ISO consists of ?

a) Three
b) Five
c) Seven
d) Eight
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Answer: c
Explanation: None.
2. Which layer is responsible for The process-to-process delivery ?
a) Network
b) Transport
c) Application
d) Physical
View Answer
Answer: b
Explanation: None.
3. Which layer is the layer closest to the transmission medium ?
a) Physical
b) Data link
c) Network
d) Transport
View Answer
Answer: a
Explanation: None.
4. Header are ______ when data packet moves from upper to the lower layers ?
a) Modified
b) Removed
c) Added
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: c
Explanation: None.
5. Which layer lies between transport layer and data link layer ?
a) Physical
b) Network
c) Application
d) Session
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Answer: b
Explanation: None.
6. Which of the following is an application layer service ?
a) Mail service
b) File transfer
c) Remote access
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: d
Explanation: None.
7. What are different ways distributed may suffer ?
a) Failure of a link
b) Failure of a site
c) Loss of message
d) All of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: d
Explanation: None.
8. What are design issues in distributed system structure ?
a) Scalability
b) Fault-tolerance
c) Clustering
d) All of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: d
Explanation: None.
9. In which OSI layer encryption and decryption happens ?
a) Application
b) Presentation
c) Transport
d) Data Link
View Answer
Answer: b
Explanation: None.
10. What are important step followed when recovery from failure happens ?
a) Post repairing integration with main system should happen smoothly and gracefully
b) Upon link failure both parties at end must not be notified
c) Fault recovery system must me adjusted
d) Failures are logged systematically
View Answer
Answer: a
Explanation: None.
Operating System Questions & Answers – Distributed File
System – 1
This set of Operating System Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on
“Distributed File System – 1”.

1. What are the different ways in which clients and servers are dispersed across
machines ?
a) Servers may not run on dedicated machines
b) Servers and clients can be on same machines
c) Distribution cannot be interposed between a OS and the file system
d) OS cannot be distributed with the file system a part of that distribution
View Answer
Answer: b
Explanation: None.
2. What are not the characteristics of a DFS ?
a) login transparency and access transparency
b) Files need not contain information about their physical location
c) No Multiplicity of users
d) No Multiplicity if files
View Answer
Answer: c
Explanation: None.
3. What are characteristic of a DFS ?
a) Fault tolerance
b) Scalability
c) Heterogeneity of the system
d) Upgradation
View Answer
Answer: d
Explanation: None.
4. What are the different ways file accesses take place ?
a) sequential access
b) direct access
c) indexed sequential access
d) all of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: d
Explanation: None.
5. Which is not a major components of file system ?
a) Directory service
b) Authorization service
c) Shadow service
d) System service
View Answer
Answer: c
Explanation: None.
6. What are the different ways mounting of file system ?
a) boot mounting
b) auto mounting
c) explicit mounting
d) all of the mentioned
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Answer: d
Explanation: None.
7. What is the advantage of caching in remote file access ?
a) Reduced network traffic by retaining recently accessed disk blocks
b) Faster network access
c) Copies of data creates backup automatically
d) None of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: a
Explanation: None.
8. What is networked virtual memory ?
a) Caching
b) Segmentation
c) RAM disk
d) None of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: a
Explanation: None.
9. What are examples of state information ?
a) opened files and their clients
b) file descriptors and file handles
c) current file position pointers
d) all of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: d
Explanation: None.
10. Which is not an examples of state information ?
a) Mounting information
b) Description of HDD space
c) Session keys
d) Lock status
View Answer
Answer: b
Explanation: None.
Operating System Questions & Answers – Distributed
Coordination
This set of Operating System Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on
“Distributed Coordination”.

1. What are the characteristics of tightly coupled system ?

i) Same clock, usually shared memory
ii) Communication is via this shared memory
iii) Multiprocessors
iv) Different clock

a) i
b) i, ii and ii
c) ii and iii
d) i, iii and iv
View Answer
Answer : b
Explanation: None.
2. What are the characteristics of tightly coupled system ?
i) Different clock
ii) Use communication links
iii) Same clock
iv) Distributed systems

a) i
b) i and iv
c) i, ii and iii
d) ii, iii and iv
View Answer
Answer : d
Explanation: None.
3. What are the characteristics of mutual exclusion using centralized approach ?
a) One processor as coordinator which handles all requests
b) It requires request,reply and release per critical section entry
c) The method is free from starvation
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer : d
Explanation: None.
4. What are the characteristics of fully distributed approach ?
i) When responses are received from all processes, then process can enter its Critical
Section
ii) When process exits its critical section, the process sends reply messages to all its
deferred requests.
iii) It requires request,reply and release per critical section entry
iv) One processor as coordinator which handles all requests

a) i
b) i and ii
c) ii and iii
d) iii and iv
View Answer
Answer : b
Explanation: None.
5. What are the advantages of token(with rings) passing approach ?
i) One processor as coordinator which handles all requests
ii) No starvation if the ring is unidirectional
iii) There are many messages passed per section entered if few users want to get in section
iv) One processor as coordinator which handles all requests
v) Only one message/entry if everyone wants to get in

a) i
b) ii and iii
c) i, ii and iii
d) i, ii and iv
View Answer
Answer : d
Explanation: None.
6. What is the characteristics of atomicity ?
a) All operations associated are executed to completion or none are performed
b) One processor as coordinator which handles all requests
c) When responses are received from all processes, then process can enter its Critical
Section
d) Use communication links
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Answer : a
Explanation: None.
7. What things are transaction coordinator is responsible for ?
a) Starting the execution of the transaction
b) Breaking transaction into a number of subtransactions
c) Coordinating the termination of the transaction
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer : d
Explanation: None.
8. Single coordinator approach has the following advantages :
a) Simple implementation
b) Simple deadlock handling
c) bottleneck
d) All of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer : d
Explanation: None.
9. Single coordinator approach has the following disadvantages :
a) Bottleneck
b) Slow response
c) Deadlock
d) One request per second
View Answer
Answer : a
Explanation: None.
10. What are the disadvantages of majority protocol ?
a) Complicated implementation
b) Deadlock cannot occur easily
c) Bottleneck
d) All of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer : a
Explanation: None.
11. What are the parts of global unique identifier ?
a) Local unique timestamp
b) Remote timestamp
c) Clock number
d) All of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer : a
Explanation: None.
12. Which are the two complementary deadlock-prevention schemes using timestamps ?
a) The wait-die & wound-wait scheme
b) The wait-n-watch scheme
c) The wound-wait scheme
d) The wait-wound & wound-wait scheme
View Answer
Answer : a
Explanation: None.