Operating System Quiz 2

Operating System

Operating Systems Quiz

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1. The systems which allows only one process execution at a time, are called
   1.   uniprogramming systems
   2.   uniprocessing systems
   3.   unitasking systems
   4.   none of the mentioned
2. In Unix, Which system call creates the new process?
   1.   fork
   2.   create
   3.   new
   4.   none of the mentioned
3. What is the ready state of a process?
   1.   when process is scheduled to run after some execution
   2.   when process is unable to run until some task has been completed
   3.   when process is using the CPU
   4.   none of the mentioned
4. What is interprocess communication?
   1.   communication within the process
   2.   communication between two process
   3.   communication between two threads of same process
   4.   none of the mentioned
5. A set of processes is deadlock if
   1.   each process is blocked and will remain so forever
   2.   each process is terminated
   3.   all processes are trying to kill each other
   4.   none of the mentioned
6. The address of the next instruction to be executed by the current process is provided by the
   1.   CPU registers
   2.   program counter
   3.   process stack
   4.   pipe
7. Which one of the following is the address generated by CPU?
   1.   physical address
   2.   absolute address
   3.   logical address
   4.   none of the mentioned
8. Run time mapping from virtual to physical address is done by
   1.   memory management unit
   2.   CPU
   3.   PCI
   4.   none of the mentioned
9. The address of a page table in memory is pointed by
   1.   stack pointer
   2.   page table base register
   3.   page register
   4.   program counter
10. The number of processes completed per unit time is known as __________.
    1.   Output
    2.   Throughput
    3.   Efficiency
    4.   Capacity