Basic Operating System MCQ

Basic Operating System MCQ
421. The S-SCAN, in disk scheduling states
  • The arm movement is uni directional
  • The arm movement is bdirectional
  • The are is to be state fixed
  • None of these
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422. RAID-O does not support the following characterstics: A: RAID is a set of physical disk drives viewed by the operating system as a single logical drive. B: Data distributed across the physical drives of an array. C: Re-demdant disk capacity is used to store parity information, which gurantees data recoverability in case of a disk failure.
  • A and B
  • A only
  • B only
  • C only
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423. The UNIX scheduling gives
  • Highest preference to real time processes
  • Highest preference to kernel mode processes
  • Highest preference to user mode processes
  • Highest preference to shared processes
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424. In disk scheduling when SCAN (Look) policy is applied and when last track reached in one direction
  • The service direction is reversed and scan proceeds in opposite direction.
  • The Arm returns to the opposite end of the disk and scan begins again.
  • A and B both true.
  • None of these
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425. In RAID (Redundant Array of independent Disks) scheme, which of the following RAID level does not include redundancy to improve performance ?
  • RAID level 0
  • RAID level 2
  • RAID level 1
  • RAID level 4
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426. In which of the following RAID schemd, redundancy is achieved by the simple expedient of duplicating all the data ?
  • RAID level 0
  • RAID level 1
  • RAID level 2
  • RAID level 3
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427. In shortest service time first policy, applied on disk scheduling, the disk request is  selected
  • That requires the least movement of disk arm from its current position.
  • That requires the maximum movement of disk arm from its current position.
  • That is recently received.
  • On random.
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428. The RAID (Redundant Array of independent disks)level one requires
  • Same disk space of the logical disk that it support
  • Twice disk space of the logical disk that it support
  • Thrice disk space of the logical disk that it support.
  • Half disk space of the logical disk that it support.
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429. Match the following in RAID scheme : A-Parallel access array, B-Independent access array, 1- All member disks participate in the execution of every I/O  request. 2- Each member disk participates separately in the execution of every I/O request. 3- Here spinles of the individual drives are synchronized so that each disk head is in the same position on each disk at any given time.
  • A - 1, 3 and B - 2
  • A - 1, and B -2, 3
  • A - 2, and B- 1, 3
  • A - 1, 2 and B - 3
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430. The following RAID level employer parallel access technique and single redundant disk
  • RAID level 0
  • RAID level 1
  • RAID level 2
  • RAID level 3
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