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Operating System Processes Quiz

Test your knowledge about the workings of operating systems with our comprehensive quiz! Dive deep into process management concepts such as process states, control mechanisms, and resource sharing.

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The processor itself provides only limited support for multiprogramming, and _______ is needed to manage the sharing of the processor and other resources by multiple applications at the same time.

Memory

Data

Software

Hardware

"The process was placed in a suspended state by an agent; either itself, a parent process, or the OS, for the purpose of preventing its execution," is a characteristic of a _______ process.

Blocked

Suspended

Ready

Swapped

A _______ is a unit of activity characterized by the execution of a sequence of instructions, a current state, and an associated set of system resources.

Identifier

Process

State

Kernel

We can characterize the behavior of an individual process by listing the sequence of instructions, referred to as a _______, that executes for that process.

State

Trace

Process block

Priority

It is the principal responsibility of the _______ to control the execution of processes.

Process control block

Memory

Dispatcher

When one process spawns another, the spawned process is referred to as the _______.

Trap process

Child process

Stack process

Parent process

_______ involves moving part or all of a process from main memory to disk.

Swapping

Relocating

Suspending

Blocking

When a process is in the _______ state it is in secondary memory but is available for execution as soon as it is loaded into main memory.

Blocked

Blocked/Suspend

Ready

Ready/Suspend

A process is in the _______ state when it is in main memory and awaiting an event.

Blocked

Blocked/Suspend

Ready/Suspend

Ready

The collection of program, data, stack, and attributes is referred to as the _______.

Process structure

Process control block

Process location

Process image

A _______ is an individual who seizes supervisory control of the system and uses this control to evade auditing and access controls or to suppress audit collection.

Misfeasor

Clandestine user

Masquerader

Legitimate user

The portion of the operating system that selects the next process to run is called the _______.

Trace

Process control block

Dispatcher

PSW

A computer platform consists of a collection of hardware resources, such as the processor, main memory, I/O modules, timers, and disk drives.

True

False

A design change in the structure or semantics of the process control block could affect a number of modules in the OS.

True

False

The process control block is the key tool that enables the OS to support multiple processes and to provide for multiprocessing.

True

False

The first step in designing an OS to control processes is to describe the behavior that we would like the processes to exhibit.

True

False

If a system does not employ virtual memory each process to be executed must be fully loaded into main memory.

True

False

. A process that is not in main memory is immediately available for execution, regardless of whether or not it is awaiting an event.

True

False

All processor designs include a register or set of registers, often known as the program status word, which contains status information.

True

False

A process switch may occur any time that the OS has gained control from the currently running process.

True

False

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