MCQ Bank
A dashed line is used to represent a __________ in Resource Allocation Graph.
- A) Claim edge
- B) Request edge
- C) Assignment edge
- D) Allocation edge
The process of holding at least one resource and waiting to acquire additional resources that are currently being held by other processes is known as _________________.
- A) Circular wait
- B) Mutual exclusion
- C) Hold and wait
- D) No preemption
The ------- is a single program that produces an object file
- A) Text editor
- B) Loader
- C) Compiler
- D) Linker
--------------refers to the situation when free memory space exists to load a process in the memory but the space is not contiguous.
- A) Internal fragmentation
- B) External Fragmentation
- C) Segmentation
- D) Swapping
Overlays are implemented by the _________________
- A) Kernel
- B) Operating system
- C) Programmer
- D) Shell
Wrong use of wait and signal operations (in context with semaphores) can cause _________ problem(s).
- A) Deadlock
- B) All of the given options are correct
- C) Mutual Exclusion
- D) Bounded Waiting
Secondary Storage memory devices have _____________ memory.
- A) Temporary
- B) None of the options is correct
- C) Volatile
- D) Permanent and non volatile
Cache is non-volatile memory.
- A) False
- B) True
- C)
- D)
Address Binding will be at _______ in Multiprogramming with Fixed Tasks (MFT)
- A) Dynamic time
- B) Load time
- C) None of the given options
- D) Run time
Using hardware solution to synchronization for complex problems, introduce a new synchronization tool know as _______________.
- A) Trap
- B) TestAndSet
- C) Swap
- D) Semaphore
__________ is used in the detection and recovery mechanism to handle deadlocks.
- A) Claim Edge Graph
- B) Wait-for Graph
- C) Resource allocation Graph
- D) Circular Graph
Physical memory is broken down into fixed-sized blocks, called----------- and Logical memory is divided into blocks of the same size, called -----------
- A) Holes, segments
- B) Frames, holes
- C) Frames, pages
- D) Pages, Frames
In ------------- technique, memory is divided into several fixed-size partitions.
- A) Multiprogramming with Fixed Tasks (MFT)
- B) Swapping
- C) Multiprogramming with Variable Tasks (MVT)
- D) Overlays
In Swapping technique of Memory Management, the total amount transfer time is directly proportional to the _________________.
- A) amount of space on backing store
- B) amount of memory swapped
- C) all the given options are correct
- D) space on main memory
Consider a system of N processes (Po, P1 …… Pn-1). Each process in its critical section and the process may be changing common variables, updating a table, writing a file etc. No other process is allowed to execute in its critical section. This problem is called -------------.
- A) Deadlock Algorithm
- B) N-Process Critical Section
- C) Bakery Algorithm
- D) N-Mutual Exclusion
Access of variable Semaphore is possible only through two atomic operation ______________ and _____________.
- A) Lock, key
- B) Boolean, integer
- C) Wait, signal
- D) TestAndSet, Swap
The system maintains a ____________ of all processes whose memory images are on the backing store or in memory and are ready to run.
- A) Environment
- B) Queue
- C) Ready Queue
- D) List
When the address used in a program gets converted to an actual physical RAM address, it is called ------------
- A) Address Binding
- B) Compiling
- C) Loading
- D) Execution
The problem of Deadlocks can be solved by __________ method(s).
- A) All of the given
- B) Deadlock avoidance
- C) Deadlock prevention
- D) Allowing deadlock to occur, then detect and recover
The size of pages and frames are same in logical memory and physical memory respectively.
- A) False
- B) True
- C)
- D)