Objective Question on Operating System Part 3

Solapur University MCA (Semester-II) Paper on Operating System Oct 2019

 

Sr. No. Question
1 A major problem with _________algorithms is indefinite blocking or starvation

(a)    Disk storage

(b)   Page replacement

(c)    Priority

(d)   First come first serve

2 The _____behaves like writer lock; only one process at a time can acquire such lock

(a)    Hardware lock

(b)   Exclusive lock

(c)    Shared lock

(d)   System lock

3 A _______defines a path from the current directory,

(a)    Absolute path

(b)   Directory path

(c)    Relative path

(d)   File-directory path

4 In round robin algorithm, a small unit _____is defined

(a)    Virtual memory

(b)   Time quantum

(c)    Shortest job first

(d)   Wait time

5 The value of _______semaphore can range only between 0 to 1.

(a)    Counting

(b)   Monitor

(c)    Decimal

(d)   Binary

   
6 A ____should be as fast as possible, since it is invoked during every process switch

(a)    I/O event wait

(b)   Dispatcher

(c)    Memory scheduler

(d)   Control system

7 The ___ buffer has finite length ‘n’, thus; at most ‘n’ messages can reside in it

(a)    Bounded capacity

(b)   Zero capacity

(c)    Single capacity

(d)   Unbounded capacity

8 The processes that are residing in main memory and waiting to execute are kept on list called ___

(a)    Running queue

(b)   System queue

(c)    Ready queue

(d)   Waiting queue

9 A ____________interface, in which commands and directives to control those commands are entered into files, those files are executed.

(a)    Graphical user

(b)   Fundamental

(c)    Directory

(d)   Batch

10 ________provides a convenient interface between computer user and hardware.

(a)    Linked list

(b)   Operating system

(c)    Microprocessor

(d)   Program stack

   
11 A domain is a collection of _________, each of which is an ordered pair <object-name rights-set>

(a)    Private rights

(b)   Operation rights

(c)    Access rights

(d)   Object rights

12 A __________memory divided into same sized blocks is called as page

(a)    Physical

(b)   Logical

(c)    Frame

(d)   Page

13 A _____kernel allows a process to be preempted while it is running in kernel mode

(a)    Preemptive

(b)   Non preemptive

(c)    Active

(d)   Non active

14 __________is CPU scheduling criteria, which means number of processes completing their execution per unit time.

(a)    Wait time

(b)   Arrival time

(c)    Throughput

(d)   Response time

   
  published on 6th Oct 2021
   

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