MCQ Bank
The solution type where in critical section we use “entry section and “exit section” is called kind of _______________.
- A) Assumption
- B) Operating System Solution
- C) Hardware Solution
- D) Software Solution
The size of a page is defined by ________.
- A) CPU
- B) Logical Memory
- C) Page Table
- D) Physical Memory
Critical section is a place where certain shared structure is updated. Its solution required certain precaution; one of them is the access to critical section by one process at a time only. What this condition is termed as?
- A) Bounded waiting
- B) Mutual exclusion
- C) Progress
- D) Entry section
In Overlay technique, we can overload any part of the program with the part of the program required needed recently.
- A) False
- B) True
- C)
- D)
In critical section problem __________requirement illustrates that, “There exists a bound on the number of times that other processes are allowed to enter their critical sections after a process has made a request to enter its critical section and before that request is granted.”
- A) fast execution
- B) bounded waiting
- C) mutual exclusion
- D) progress
The main memory is usually divided into partitions, one for __________ and other for __________ .
- A) Base Register, Limit Register
- B) Operating System, User processes
- C) Operating system, CPU
- D) Processes, Virtual Memory
There are ________steps, which are necessary to create a file
- A) 5
- B) 3
- C) 2
- D) 4
Segmentation is a memory management scheme that supports __________?
- A) Hardware’s view of memory
- B) Programmer’s view of memory
- C) None of the given
- D) System’s view of memory
In a UNIX system,__________ system call can be used to request the operating system to memory map an opened file.
- A) mmap( )
- B) exec( )
- C) fork ( )
- D) read( )
------------------points to the page table
- A) Page-table base register (PTBR)
- B) Page-table length register (PRLR)
- C) Page offset
- D) Translation look-aside buffers
Intel is basically designed for following Operating Systems except __________.
- A) Linux
- B) MULTICS
- C) Windows
- D) OS/2
Optimal Page Replacement Algorithm provides a benchmark in assessing other page replacement algorithms.
- A) False
- B) True
- C)
- D)
LRU page replacement algorithm can be implemented by
- A) linked list
- B) all of the given options
- C) stack
- D) counter
In ______ allocation scheme number of frames allocated to a process is proportional to its size .
- A) Priority Allocation
- B) None of the given options
- C) Proportional Allocation
- D) Fixed Allocation
ST in logical addressing stands for ________ .
- A) None of the Given
- B) Smart Trap
- C) String Table
- D) Segment Table
In case of thrashing if CPU utilization is too low the operating system ______ the degree of multiprogramming.
- A) sometimes increases and sometimes decreases
- B) increases
- C) decreases
- D) None of the given options
The term pager is used in connection with ________________.
- A) Paged Segmentation
- B) Demand Paging
- C) Paging
- D) Segmentation
The frame that has been modified during execution of a process is usually called _________ frame.
- A) Overwritten
- B) Dirty
- C) Ideal
- D) Clean
Intel 80386 used paged segmentation with _________ level paging.
- A) Three
- B) Four
- C) One
- D) Two
Following schemes allow efficient implementations of page tables EXCEPT
- A) Inverted Page Table
- B) Hierarchical / Multilevel Paging
- C) Hashed Page Table
- D) Binary Page Table