Operating System Quiz


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Operating System Quiz

1. In multiprogramming environment, the OS decides which process gets the processor when and for how much time. This function is called _____________.

process scheduling
process rescheduling
traffic controller
Processor Management

2. In which type of Fragmentation, Memory block assigned to process is bigger. Some portion of memory is left unused, as it cannot be used by another process.

External fragmentation
Internal fragmentation
Both A and B
None of the above

3. Which of the following program threat, "Such program traps user login credentials and stores them to send to malicious user who can later on login to computer and can access system resources."

Trojan Horse
Trap Door
Logic bomb
Virus

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

Context switching
Quantam
Process Period
Batch Jobs

5. Swap space exists in ____________

Primary Memory
secondary memory
virtual memory
CPU

6. Swapping is also known as a

technique for memory management
technique for memory compaction
technique for memory addresse
technique for dynamic linking

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

Protection
Program execution
I/O operations
All of the above

8. Interactivity refers to?

The ability of users to interact with a memory.
The ability of users to interact with a I/O devices.
The ability of users to interact with a CPU.
The ability of users to interact with a computer system.

9. Multithreading on a multi : CPU machine ___________

decreases concurrency
increases concurrency
doesn't affect the concurrency
can increase or decrease the concurrency

10. 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

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