26) The primary job of the operating system of a computer is to ________.
1 Command Resources
2 Manage Resources
3 Provide Utilities
4 Be user friendly
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27) With the round robin CPU scheduling in a time-shared system ________.
1 Using very large time slice degenerates in to first come first served algorithm
2 Using extremely small time slices improve performance
3 Using extremely small time slices degenerate in to last in first out algorithm
4 Using medium sized time slices leads to shortest request time first algorithm
Ans ) 1
28) Which of the following is a criterion to evaluate a scheduling algorithm?
1 CPU Utilization: Keep CPU utilization as high as possible.
2 Throughput: number of processes completed per unit time.
3 Waiting Time: Amount of time spent ready to run but not running.
4 All of the above
Ans ) 4
29) Which of the following is contained in Process Control Block (PCB)?
1 Process Number
2 List of Open files
3 Memory Limits
4 All of the Above
Ans ) 4
30) Super computers typically employ _______.
1 Real time Operating system
2 Multiprocessors OS
3 desktop OS
4 None of the above
Ans ) 2
1) To schedule the processes, they are considered _________.
a) infinitely long
b) periodic
c) heavy weight
d) light weight
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Answer : b
None.
2) If the period of a process is ‘p’, then the rate of the task is :
a) p^2
b) 2*p
c) 1/p
d) p
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Answer : c
None.
3) The scheduler admits a process using :
a) two phase locking protocol
b) admission control algorithm
c) busy wait polling
d) None of these
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Answer : c
None.
4) The ____________ scheduling algorithm schedules periodic tasks using a static priority policy with preemption.
a) earliest deadline first
b) rate monotonic
c) first cum first served
d) priority
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Answer : b
None.
5) Rate monotonic scheduling assumes that the :
a) processing time of a periodic process is same for each CPU burst
b) processing time of a periodic process is different for each CPU burst
c) periods of all processes is the same
d) None of these
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Answer : a
None.
6) In rate monotonic scheduling, a process with a shorter period is assigned :
a) a higher priority
b) a lower priority
c) None of these
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Answer : a
None.
7) There are two processes P1 and P2, whose periods are 50 and 100 respectively. P1 is assigned higher priority than P2. The processing times are t1 = 20 for P1 and t2 = 35 for P2. Is it possible to schedule these tasks so that each meets its deadline using Rate monotonic scheduling ?
a) Yes
b) No
c) maybe
d) None of these
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Answer : a
None.
8) If a set of processes cannot be scheduled by rate monotonic scheduling algorithm, then :
a) they can be scheduled by EDF algorithm
b) they cannot be scheduled by EDF algorithm
c) they cannot be scheduled by any other algorithm
d) None of these
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Answer : c
None.
9) A process P1 has a period of 50 and a CPU burst of t1 = 25, P2 has a period of 80 and a CPU burst of 35. The total CPU utilization is :
a) 0.90
b) 0.74
c) 0.94
d) 0.80
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Answer : c
None.
10) Can the processes in the previous question be scheduled without missing the deadlines ?
a) Yes
b) No
c) maybe
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Answer : b
1) Round robin scheduling is essentially the preemptive version of ________.
1 FIFO
2 Shortest job first
3 Shortes remaining
4 Longest time first
Right Ans ) 1
2) A page fault occurs
1 when the page is not in the memory
2 when the page is in the memory
3 when the process enters the blocked state
4 when the process is in the ready state
Right Ans ) 1
3) Which of the following will determine your choice of systems software for your computer ?
1 Is the applications software you want to use compatible with it ?
2 Is it expensive ?
3 Is it compatible with your hardware ?
4 Both 1 and 3
Right Ans ) 4
4) Let S and Q be two semaphores initialized to 1, where P0 and P1 processes the following statements wait(S);wait(Q); —; signal(S);signal(Q) and wait(Q); wait(S);—;signal(Q);signal(S); respectively. The above situation depicts a _________ .
1 Semaphore
2 Deadlock
3 Signal
4 Interrupt
Right Ans ) 2
5) What is a shell ?
1 It is a hardware component
2 It is a command interpreter
3 It is a part in compiler
4 It is a tool in CPU scheduling
Right Ans ) 2
6) Routine is not loaded until it is called. All routines are kept on disk in a relocatable load format. The main program is loaded into memory & is executed. This type of loading is called _________
1 Static loading
2 Dynamic loading
3 Dynamic linking
4 Overlays
Right Ans ) 3
7) In the blocked state
1 the processes waiting for I/O are found
2 the process which is running is found
3 the processes waiting for the processor are found
4 none of the above
Right Ans ) 1
8) What is the memory from 1K – 640K called ?
1 Extended Memory
2 Normal Memory
3 Low Memory
4 Conventional Memory
Right Ans ) 4
9) Virtual memory is __________.
1 An extremely large main memory
2 An extremely large secondary memory
3 An illusion of extremely large main memory
4 A type of memory used in super computers.
Right Ans ) 3
10) The process related to process control, file management, device management, information about system and communication that is requested by any higher level language can be performed by __________.
1 Editors
2 Compilers
3 System Call
4 Caching
Right Ans ) 3
11) If the Disk head is located initially at 32, find the number of disk moves required with FCFS if the disk queue of I/O blocks requests are 98,37,14,124,65,67.
1 310
2 324
3 315
4 321
Right Ans ) 4
12) Multiprogramming systems ________.
1 Are easier to develop than single programming systems
2 Execute each job faster
3 Execute more jobs in the same time
4 Are used only on large main frame computers
Right Ans ) 3
13) Which is not the state of the process ?
1 Blocked
2 Running
3 Ready
4 Privileged
Right Ans ) 4
14) The solution to Critical Section Problem is : Mutual Exclusion, Progress and Bounded Waiting.
1 The statement is false
2 The statement is true.
3 The statement is contradictory.
4 None of the above
Right Ans ) 2
15) The problem of thrashing is effected scientifically by ________.
1 Program structure
2 Program size
3 Primary storage size
4 None of the above
Right Ans ) 1