Basic Operating System MCQ

Basic Operating System MCQ
81. Which technique was introduced because a single job could not keep both the CPU and the I/O devices busy?
  • Time-sharing
  • SPOOLing
  • Preemptive scheduling
  • Multiprogramming
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82. _________ allocates the largest hole (free fragmant) available in the memory.
  • Best Fit
  • Worst Fit
  • First Fit
  • None of the above
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83. A process is starved
  • if it is permanently waiting for a resource
  • if semaphores are not used
  • if a queue is not used for scheduling
  • if demand paging is not properly implemented
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84. The degree of Multiprogramming is controlled by
  • CPU Scheduler
  • Context Switching
  • Long-term Scheduler
  • Medium term Scheduler
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85. The time taken to bring the desired track/cylinder under the head is _________.
  • Seek time
  • Latency time
  • Transfer time
  • Read time
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86. Replace the page that will not be used for the longest period of time. This principle is adopted by ____________.
  • FIFO Page replacement algorithm
  • Optimal Page replacement algorithm
  • Round robin scheduling algorithm
  • SCAN scheduling algorithm
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87. Which of the following is a criterion to evaluate a scheduling algorithm?
  • CPU Utilization: Keep CPU utilization as high as possible.
  • Throughput: number of processes completed per unit time.
  • Waiting Time: Amount of time spent ready to run but not running.
  • All of the above
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88. The operating system of a computer serves as a software interface between the user and the ________.
  • Hardware
  • Peripheral
  • Memory
  • Screen
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89. Super computers typically employ _______.
  • Real time Operating system
  • Multiprocessors OS
  • desktop OS
  • None of the above
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90. A process that is based on IPC mechanism which executes on different systems and can communicate with other processes using message based communication, is called ________.
  • Local Procedure Call
  • Inter Process Communication
  • Remote Procedure Call
  • Remote Machine Invocation
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