Operating System Quiz


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Operating System Quiz

1. The processes which are blocked due to unavailability of an I/O device constitute this queue.

Process Scheduling Queues
Job queue
Ready queue
Device queues

2. Which of the following few common services provided by an operating system?

Protection
Program execution
I/O operations
All of the above

3. While executing a program, if the program references a page which is not available in the main memory then it is known as?

Demand Paging
Frame Fault
page fault
processor fault

4. __________ is used to save states of preempted processes.

Context switching
Quantam
Process Period
Batch Jobs

5. PCB stands for?

Process Current Block
Parent Control Block
Parent Current Block
Process Control Block

6. Which of the following algorithms work based on priority?

non-preemptive
preemptive
Both A and B
None of the above

7. A thread is also called ?

heavyweight process
lightweight process
data segment process
overhead process

8. Which scheduler is also called a job scheduler?

Long-Term Scheduler
Short-Term Scheduler
Medium-Term Scheduler
All of the above

9. Which Schedular is a part of Time sharing systems?

Long-Term Scheduler
Short-Term Scheduler
Medium-Term Scheduler
Swapping

10. In Round Robin Scheduling, Each process is provided a fix time to execute, it is called a?

Batch Time
Job Time
quantum
Period

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