BSD stands for_____________________
Basic Software Division
Berkeley Software Distribution
British Software Distribution
Berkeley Software data
Correct Answer :
B. Berkeley Software Distribution
Related Questions
The Basic Input Output System (BIOS) resides in
RAM
ROM
The CPU
Memory Cache
Most accurate global time is based on oscillations of the ______________
Cesium-130 atom
Cesium-133 atom
Cesium-136 atom
Cesium-139 atom
A bar that inform you the available options in your computer, opened applications, background running applications and can be used to switch between applications quickly is
Menu bar
Tool bar
Status bar
Task bar
Identify the server:
This type of server generally remains in existence indefinitely. It is shared by many clients. Servers of this type are created and installed before the clients use them.
Instance-per-call-servers
Persistent Servers
Non-Persistent Servers
Semantic server
Transparent RPC mechanism refers to :
Existance of multuple computer visible and a provide a single system image to its users.
It runs the program transparently.
It is a technique to shift the program to other computer.
It is technique in which local procedures and remote procedures are indistinguishable to programmers.
DSM stands for______________
Direct shared memory
Direct system memory
Distributed shared memory
Distributed system memory
The name services of DCE include ________
the Cell Directory Service
the Global Directory Service
the Global Directory Agent
A,B and C
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
Taskbar is used for
Navigation program
Start a program
Switching between program
All of above
A process control block contains varies attributes required by _____________ to control a process.
RAM
virtual memory
BIOS
Operating System
Find out the characteristics of System-oriented names:
They are large integers or bit strings.
They are of the same size
Generally shorter than human-oriented names and are easy for manipulations like hashing, sorting and so on.
All A, B, C
Which of the following is suitable after you install new drivers?
Hibernate
Sleep
Restart
Shut Down
The Network Time Protocol is similar to _______________algorithm in that synchronization is also performed using time servers and an attempt is made to correct for communication latencies.
Banker's
Divide and conquer's
Cristians
Xdelta's
The date and time displays on
Taskbar
Launch pad
Status bar
System tray
The two sub systems of user mode layer of windows 2000 are _________ and __________
excel, executive
environment, integral
orbit , kernel
Kernel , executive
What is the function of radio button?
To select multiple option
To select single option
To select all option
All of above
The ___ contains commands associated with the My Computer window
Start menu
Standard menu
System menu
None of the above
When a child dies, it sends a _______________signal to its parent.
SIGCHLD
EDEADLK
WNOHANG
SEDECHLD
In ____________ location policies a random node is polled to check its state and the task is transferred if it will not be overloaded; polling is continued until a suitable node is found.
Threshold
Shortest
Bidding
Pairing
A small part of taskbar that has icons of background running applications is
Start button
Quick launch
Task bar
System tray
_________, as a feature of good distributed file system, clients should be able to continue working if a file server crashes. Likewise, data must not be lost and a restarted file server must be able to recover to a valid state.
Scalability
Reliability
Flexibility
Fault tolerance
You can use print manage window
To cancel the print job
To check status of files in the print queue
To interrupt printing
All of the above
______________ is a situation in which two computer programs sharing the same resource are effectively preventing each other from accessing the resource, resulting in both programs ceasing to function.
Semaphore
Deadlock
Mutual Exclusion
No preemption
Wiretapping to capture data in a network is an example of ________________
interruption
interception
fabrication
modification
Which of the following is/are external commands?
Edit
Label
Sys
All of above
The primary purpose of an operating system is a …
To allow people to use the computer
To make the most efficient use of computer hardware
To make computer easier to use
To keep system programmer employed
The ______________ unpacks the call receipt messages from local RPC Runtime and makes a perfect local call to invoke the appropriate procedure in the server.
server Stub
server
client
client stub
What is dispatch latency?
The time taken by the dispatcher to stop one process and start another
The whole time taken by all processor
The time taken by the processor to write a file into disk
None of Above
Which buffering strategy is used for implementing synchronous communication?
Single message buffer
Unbounded - Capacity buffer
Finite-Bound Buffer
All can be used.
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.