Basic Operating System MCQ

Basic Operating System MCQ
241. The wait operation
  • Decrements the semaphore value
  • Inrements the semaphore value
  • Fixes the semaphore value
  • None of these
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242. In semaphore, the process executing the wait is blocked if
  • The semaphore value becomes negative
  • The semaphore value become positive
  • The semaphore value becomes non-positive
  • The semaphore value becomes non-negative
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243. In semaphore the process blocked by wait operation is unblocked if
  • Semaphore value becomes non- negative
  • Semaphore value becomes non-posiive
  • Semaphore value is negative
  • Semaphore value is positive
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244. The compaction is the technique in memory management that is used to over come
  • Internal fragmentation
  • External fragmentation
  • Both (A) and (B)
  • None of these
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245. Physical address (absolute address ) in memory partitioning is
  • Actual location in main memory
  • A reference to memory location independent of current assignment
  • A logical address
  • None of these
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246. The frame
  • Can hold exactly one page of data
  • Can hold more than one page of data
  • Can hole two page of data
  • None of these
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247. The page table that is maintained by operating system
  • Shows frame loation for each page of the process
  • Shows actural address in main memory
  • Referrer memory location to memory
  • None of these
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248. Match the following pairs

A. Logical address
  (1) An actual location in main memory
B. Relative address
    (2) An address is expressed as a location relative to some known point.
C. A memory location independent of the current assignment of data to memory
  • A-3, B-2, C-1
  • A-2, B-1, C-3
  • A-3, B-1, C-2
  • A-1, B-2, C-3
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249. The resident set of process is
  • A process that are actually in main memory at anytimes
  • A process that are actually in virtual memory at any time.
  • A proces that are actually in disk
  • None of these
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250. Physical address in memory management is
  • Actual location in main memory
  • Memory location independent of current assigment of data tol memory
  • Memory location dependent to some known point.
  • None of these
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