Trivia On Operating System: Quiz!

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  • 1. 
    What does F I FO stand for?
    • A. 

      First in first out

    • B. 

      First in fast out

    • C. 

      Both

    • D. 

      None of these

  • 2. 
    Which of the following is not an objective of the operating system?
    • A. 

      Process Management

    • B. 

      Convenience

    • C. 

      Efficiency

    • D. 

      Ability to evolve

  • 3. 
    Which of the machines were developed in 1970?
    • A. 

      Mainframes

    • B. 

      Mini computers

    • C. 

      Desktop computers

    • D. 

      Handheld computers

  • 4. 
    Which machines developed in the decade 1980?
    • A. 

      Mainframes

    • B. 

      Mini computers

    • C. 

      Desktop computers

    • D. 

      Handheld computers

  • 5. 
    Which machines developed in the decade 1990? 
    • A. 

      Mainframes

    • B. 

      Mini computers

    • C. 

      Desktop computers

    • D. 

      Handheld computers

  • 6. 
    The program counter is the special registered address of the next instruction to be fetched.
    • A. 

      True

    • B. 

      False

  • 7. 
    The lowest level of memory is a magnetic disk.
    • A. 

      True

    • B. 

      False

  • 8. 
    Magnetic disk is used as a storage device in a computer system.
    • A. 

      True

    • B. 

      False

  • 9. 
    Which of the following are the opening system services?
    • A. 

      File System manipulation

    • B. 

      Error detection

    • C. 

      Communication

    • D. 

      All of the above

  • 10. 
    Top-level directory in the hierarchical directory systems is:
    • A. 

      Root directory

    • B. 

      User directory

    • C. 

      User subdirectory

    • D. 

      User file

  • 11. 
    UNIX command line interface is called as?
    • A. 

      Shell

    • B. 

      System calls

    • C. 

      Kernel

    • D. 

      None of these

  • 12. 
    Which of these is a type of system call?
    • A. 

      Process control

    • B. 

      Open

    • C. 

      Read

    • D. 

      Close

  • 13. 
    Which of the operating system has no structure?
    • A. 

      Monolithic system

    • B. 

      Layered system

    • C. 

      Both

    • D. 

      None

  • 14. 
    In layered system which layer is responsible for handling the allocation of the processor?
    • A. 

      Layer 0

    • B. 

      Layer 1

    • C. 

      Layer 2

    • D. 

      Layer 3

  • 15. 
    A program under execution is called as?
    • A. 

      Process

    • B. 

      Thread

    • C. 

      Program counter

    • D. 

      Stack pointer

  • 16. 
    PCB stands for?
    • A. 

      Process control block

    • B. 

      Process cancelation block

    • C. 

      Process cipher bloxk

    • D. 

      None of these

  • 17. 
    Which field points to another process control block?
    • A. 

      Pointer

    • B. 

      Current state

    • C. 

      Priority

    • D. 

      Registers

  • 18. 
    Switching off CPU back and forth between processes is called as? 
    • A. 

      Context switching

    • B. 

      Multiprogramming

    • C. 

      Thread

    • D. 

      None of these

  • 19. 
    A single sequence stream within a process is called as?
    • A. 

      Thread

    • B. 

      Process

    • C. 

      Thread usage

    • D. 

      None of these

  • 20. 
    The kernel is unaware of the thread in which type of thread?
    • A. 

      User level thread

    • B. 

      Kernel level thread

    • C. 

      Both

    • D. 

      None of these

  • 21. 
    Thread management is carried out by the kernel in?
    • A. 

      Kernel level thread

    • B. 

      User level thread

    • C. 

      Both

    • D. 

      None of these

  • 22. 
    Which of these is a multithreading model?
    • A. 

      One to one

    • B. 

      Many to one

    • C. 

      Many to many

    • D. 

      All of the above

  • 23. 
    IPC stands for?
    • A. 

      Inter process communication

    • B. 

      Inter parallel communication

    • C. 

      Both

    • D. 

      None

  • 24. 
    What happens when more than one process writes data items?
    • A. 

      Race condition

    • B. 

      Critical region

    • C. 

      Mutual exclusion

    • D. 

      None of these

  • 25. 
    The portion of the program where the shared memory is accessed is called?
    • A. 

      Critical region

    • B. 

      Race condition

    • C. 

      Mutual exclusion

    • D. 

      All of the above

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