A process control block contains varies attributes required by _____________ to control a process.
RAM
virtual memory
BIOS
Operating System
Correct Answer :
D. Operating System
Related Questions
Most accurate global time is based on oscillations of the ______________
Cesium-130 atom
Cesium-133 atom
Cesium-136 atom
Cesium-139 atom
Which of the following operating system reads and reacts in actual time?
Quick Response System
Time Sharing System
Batch Processing System
Real Time System
Identify the distributed computing model from the following statement. In this model, the user's processes need not be migrated to the server machines for getting the work done by those machines.
Minicomputer model
Workstation model
Workstation-Server model
Processor pool model
______________ selects a process from among the ready processes to execute on the CPU.
CPU Scheduler
Loader
Dispatcher
Compiler
__ is the program run on a computer when the computer boots up
System software
Operating system
System operations
None
All of the following are TRUE regarding virtual memory EXCEPT
Any amount of RAM can be allocated to virtual memory
The setting for the amount of hard disk drive space to allocate virtual memory can be manually change
This temporary storage is called the swap file or page file
Virtual memory is the physical space o the hard drive
_______________occurs when two or more execution flows are able to run simultaneously.
Deadlock
Concurrency
race condition
interrupt
______________ are popular way to improve application through parallelism.
Processes
Threads
Context switching
none of these
Windows 2000 supports -------------- type of file system
NTFS
EFS
FEFS
EFFS
The Bankers algorithm is used
to prevent deadlock
to rectify deadlock
to detect deadlock
to slove deadlock
A _____________is a collection of processors that do not share memory, peripheral devices,or a clock.
Computer system
distributed system
network
None of the above
A standard UNIX system includes a set of ___________ and a set of ___________.
Commands ,files
Libraries, Applications
Libraries, files
Files, Applications
______________is a mechanism the prevents two or more processes from accessing a shared resource simultaneously.
Livelock
Preemption
Semaphore
either or
The essential difference between an operating system like Linux and one like Windows is that
Linux is a proprietary whereas Windows is not
Windows can run with an Intel processor, whereas Linux cannot
There are multiple versions of Linux, but only one version of Windows
Any programmer can modify Linux code which is not permitted with Windows
A process control block contains varies attributes required by _____________ to control a process.
RAM
virtual memory
BIOS
Operating System
The time taken by the Dispatcher to stop one process and start another running is known as _________________.
Turnaround time
Dispatch Latency
Access time
Response time
Process migration involves__________________
Selection of a process to be migrated
Selection of destination system or node
Actual transfer of the selected process to the destination system or node
All A, B, C
____________ file system allows sharing in multiple different locations grouped under one folder.
Direct
distributed
sequential
parallel
Pick the wrong statement from the following.
UNIX systems originally came with a command interpreter called the Bourne Shell.
The cat command takes any characters from standard input, and then echoes them to standard output.
A pipe is a means of taking the output of one command and directing it as another command.
The manual entry is called a man page, even though it is often more than one page long.
What do you mean by 0-reliable level in multicast communication?
Multiple responses is expected from any receivers.
No response is expected from any receivers.
Multiple responses is expected from multiple receivers.
A multicast message is received by all the members of the group or none.
Which of the following is suitable after you install new drivers?
Hibernate
Sleep
Restart
Shut Down
Recently deleted files are stored in
Taskbar
Desktop
My computer
Recycle bin
_______refers to the block size of the DSM system, i.e. to the units of sharing and the unit of data transfer across the network when a network block fault occurs.
Granularity
Coherence
Abstraction
Synchronization
Ext2 is the standard file system of _______ and uses a block size of_____bytes
MS DOS,8K
Linux ,1024
Linux, 512
Unix, 512
A _______________in a distributed system is a string of bits or characters that is used to refer to an entity.
name
attribute
identifiers
addresses
_____________ manage the name spaces and binds an object to its location.
Name Server
Name agent
Context
Name resolution
RPN stands for
Reverse Polish Notation
Record Police Notation
Record Polish Notation
Reverse Police Negation
You can move a window to a different position on your screen by dragging it by its
Tail
Move handle
Status bar
Title bar
The usual su command syntax is
su-pwd
su-pd
su - userID
Sue- ID
In ________________________ each node periodically sends a message to the time server.
Passive Time Server Centralized Algorithm
Active Time Server Centralized Algorithm
Global Averaging Distributed Algorithms
Localized Averaging Distributed Algorithms