OS Quiz 2017

The operating system is an example of a computer

Program

File system

Object

Desktop

The unit of dispatching is usually referred to as a ………

Thread

Lightweight process

Process

Both A and B

In process scheduling, …………………… determines when new processes are admitted to the system.

Long term scheduling

Medium term scheduling

Short term scheduling

None of the above

The ……………. Determines when a page should be brought into main memory.

Fetch policy

Placement policy

Replacement policy

Resident set management

The process that are residing in the main memory and are waiting to execute are kept on a list called the ............

Job queue

Ready queue

Wait queue

Device queue

�………………. Techniques can be used to resolve conflicts, such as competition for resources, and to synchronize processes so that they can cooperate.

Mutual Exclusion

Busy Waiting

Deadlock

Starvation

Round robin scheduling is essentially the preemptive version of ...........

Shortest job first

Shortest remaining

Longest time first

First in first out

Operating System means ........................

A way of computer drives works

A set of devices and programs

A set of programs which controls computer working.

All of the above

Virtual memory is

An extremely large main memory

An illusion of extremely large main memory

An extremely large secondary memory

A type of memory used in super computers

A small program which loads OS into the memory is called as .........

ROM

BIOS

BOOTSTRAP LOADER

RAM

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