1. What is operating system?

a) collection of programs that manages hardware resources

b) system service provider to the application programs
c) link to interface the hardware and application programs
d) all of the mentioned

Answer: b) system service provider to the application programs

2. To access the services of operating system, the interface is provided by the ___________
a) System calls
b) API
c) Library
d) Assembly instructions

Answer: a) System calls

3. Which one of the following is not true?

a) kernel is the program that constitutes the central core of the operating system
b) kernel is the first part of operating system to load into memory during booting
c) kernel is made of various modules which can not be loaded in running operating system
d) kernel remains in the memory during the entire computer session

Answer: c) kernel is made of various modules which can not be loaded in running operating system

4. By operating system, the resource management can be done via __________

a) time division multiplexing
b) space division multiplexing
c) time and space division multiplexing
d) none of the mentioned

Answer: c) time and space division multiplexing

5. If a process fails, most operating system write the error information to a ______
a) log file
b) another running process
c) new file
d) none of the mentioned

Answer: a) log file

6. Which one of the following is not a real time operating system?

a) VxWorks
b) Windows CE
c) RTLinux
d) Palm OS

Answer: d) Palm OS
7. In Unix, Which system call creates the new process?
a) fork
b) create
c) new
d) none of the mentioned

Answer: a) fork

8. What is the ready state of a process?

a) when process is scheduled to run after some execution
b) when process is unable to run until some task has been completed
c) when process is using the CPU
d) none of the mentioned

Answer: a) when process is scheduled to run after some execution

9. What is interprocess communication?

a) communication within the process
b) communication between two process
c) communication between two threads of same process
d) none of the mentioned

Answer: b

10. Which system call returns the process identifier of a terminated child?
a) wait
b) exit
c) fork
d) get

Answer: a

11. The address of the next instruction to be executed by the current process is provided by the
__________
a) CPU registers
b) Program counter
c) Process stack
d) Pipe

Answer: b

12. The number of processes completed per unit time is known as __________
a) Output
b) Throughput
c) Efficiency
d) Capacity

Answer: b
13. Which of the following is not the state of a process?
a) New
b) Old
c) Waiting
d) Running

Answer: b

14. What is a Process Control Block?

a) Process type variable
b) Data Structure
c) A secondary storage section
d) A Block in memory

Answer: b

15. What is the degree of multiprogramming?

a) the number of processes executed per unit time
b) the number of processes in the ready queue
c) the number of processes in the I/O queue
d) the number of processes in memory
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Answer: d
Explanation: None.

16. What will happen when a process terminates?

a) It is removed from all queues
b) It is removed from all, but the job queue
c) Its process control block is de-allocated
d) Its process control block is never de-allocated
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Answer: a
Explanation: None.

17. What is a long-term scheduler?

a) It selects which process has to be brought into the ready queue
b) It selects which process has to be executed next and allocates CPU
c) It selects which process to remove from memory by swapping
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: None.
18. What is a medium-term scheduler?
a) It selects which process has to be brought into the ready queue
b) It selects which process has to be executed next and allocates CPU
c) It selects which process to remove from memory by swapping
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: c
Explanation: None.

19. What is a short-term scheduler?

a) It selects which process has to be brought into the ready queue
b) It selects which process has to be executed next and allocates CPU
c) It selects which process to remove from memory by swapping
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: b

20. The primary distinction between the short term scheduler and the long term scheduler is
__________
a) The length of their queues
b) The type of processes they schedule
c) The frequency of their execution
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: c

21. In a time-sharing operating system, when the time slot given to a process is completed, the process
goes from the running state to the __________
a) Blocked state
b) Ready state
c) Suspended state
d) Terminated state
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Answer: b

22. If a process is executing in its critical section, then no other processes can be executing in their
critical section. This condition is called?
a) mutual exclusion
b) critical exclusion
c) synchronous exclusion
d) asynchronous exclusion
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Answer: a
Explanation: None.

23. Which one of the following is a synchronization tool?

a) thread
b) pipe
c) semaphore
d) socket
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Answer: c

24. A semaphore is a shared integer variable __________

a) that can not drop below zero
b) that can not be more than zero
c) that can not drop below one
d) that can not be more than one
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Answer: a
Explanation: None.

25. In UNIX, each process is identified by its __________

a) Process Control Block
b) Device Queue
c) Process Identifier
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: c

26. Remote Procedure Calls are used ____________

a) for communication between two processes remotely different from each other on the same system
b) for communication between two processes on the same system
c) for communication between two processes on separate systems
d) none of the mentioned
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Answer: c

27. What is stub?

a) transmits the message to the server where the server side stub receives the message and invokes
procedure on the server side
b) packs the parameters into a form transmittable over the network
c) locates the port on the server
d) all of the mentioned
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Answer: d
28. The initial program that is run when the computer is powered up is called __________
a) boot program
b) bootloader
c) initializer
d) bootstrap program
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Answer: d

29. How does the software trigger an interrupt?

a) Sending signals to CPU through bus
b) Executing a special operation called system call
c) Executing a special program called system program
d) Executing a special program called interrupt trigger program
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Answer: b

30. What is an interrupt vector?

a) It is an address that is indexed to an interrupt handler
b) It is a unique device number that is indexed by an address
c) It is a unique identity given to an interrupt
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: a

31. Which module gives control of the CPU to the process selected by the short-term scheduler?
a) dispatcher
b) interrupt
c) scheduler
d) none of the mentioned
View Answer

Answer: a

32. The processes that are residing in main memory and are ready and waiting to execute are kept on a
list called _____________
a) job queue
b) ready queue
c) execution queue
d) process queue
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Answer: b

33. The interval from the time of submission of a process to the time of completion is termed as
____________
a) waiting time
b) turnaround time
c) response time
d) throughput
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Answer: b

34. In priority scheduling algorithm, when a process arrives at the ready queue, its priority is compared
with the priority of ____________
a) all process
b) currently running process
c) parent process
d) init process
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Answer: b
Explanation: None.

35. Which algorithm is defined in Time quantum?

a) shortest job scheduling algorithm
b) round robin scheduling algorithm
c) priority scheduling algorithm
d) multilevel queue scheduling algorithm
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Answer: b

36. Process are classified into different groups in ____________

a) shortest job scheduling algorithm
b) round robin scheduling algorithm
c) priority scheduling algorithm
d) multilevel queue scheduling algorithm
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Answer: d

37. In multilevel feedback scheduling algorithm ____________

a) a process can move to a different classified ready queue
b) classification of ready queue is permanent
c) processes are not classified into groups
d) none of the mentioned
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Answer: a

38. Which one of the following can not be scheduled by the kernel?
a) kernel level thread
b) user level thread
c) process
d) none of the mentioned
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Answer: b

39. What is Dispatch latency?

a) the speed of dispatching a process from running to the ready state
b) the time of dispatching a process from running to ready state and keeping the CPU idle
c) the time to stop one process and start running another one
d) none of the mentioned
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Answer: c

40. What is Turnaround time?

a) the total waiting time for a process to finish execution
b) the total time spent in the ready queue
c) the total time spent in the running queue
d) the total time from the completion till the submission of a process
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Answer: d

41. Round robin scheduling falls under the category of ____________

a) Non-preemptive scheduling
b) Preemptive scheduling
c) All of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: b

42. With round robin scheduling algorithm in a time shared system ____________
a) using very large time slices converts it into First come First served scheduling algorithm
b) using very small time slices converts it into First come First served scheduling algorithm
c) using extremely small time slices increases performance
d) using very small time slices converts it into Shortest Job First algorithm
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Answer: a

43. Which is the most optimal scheduling algorithm?

a) FCFS – First come First served
b) SJF – Shortest Job First
c) RR – Round Robin
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: None.

44. The real difficulty with SJF in short term scheduling is ____________
a) it is too good an algorithm
b) knowing the length of the next CPU request
c) it is too complex to understand
d) none of the mentioned
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Answer: b

45. Which one of the following is the deadlock avoidance algorithm?

a) banker’s algorithm
b) round-robin algorithm
c) elevator algorithm
d) karn’s algorithm
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Answer: a

46. A problem encountered in multitasking when a process is perpetually denied necessary resources is
called ____________
a) deadlock
b) starvation
c) inversion
d) aging
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Answer: b

47. To avoid deadlock ____________

a) there must be a fixed number of resources to allocate
b) resource allocation must be done only once
c) all deadlocked processes must be aborted
d) inversion technique can be used
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Answer: a

48. Semaphore is a/an _______ to solve the critical section problem.

a) hardware for a system
b) special program for a system
c) integer variable
d) none of the mentioned
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Answer: c
49. A deadlock can be broken by ____________
a) abort one or more processes to break the circular wait
b) abort all the process in the system
c) preempt all resources from all processes
d) none of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: None.

50. If we preempt a resource from a process, the process cannot continue with its normal execution and
it must be ____________
a) aborted
b) rolled back
c) terminated
d) queued
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Answer: b

51. What is the solution to starvation?

a) the number of rollbacks must be included in the cost factor
b) the number of resources must be included in resource preemption
c) resource preemption be done instead
d) all of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: None.

52. CPU fetches the instruction from memory according to the value of ____________
a) program counter
b) status register
c) instruction register
d) program status word
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Answer: a

53. Which one of the following is the address generated by CPU?

a) physical address
b) absolute address
c) logical address
d) none of the mentioned
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Answer: c
54. Program always deals with ____________
a) logical address
b) absolute address
c) physical address
d) relative address
View Answer

Answer: a