Quiz

Question and Answer

Supervisor state is
A. never used
B. entered by programs when they enter the processor
C. required to perform any I/O
D. only allowed to the operating system
E. None of the above

Which of the following instruction steps,

would be written within the diamondshaped box, of a flowchart?
A. S = B - C
B. IS A<10
C. PRINT A
D. DATA X,4Z
E. None of the above

Interprocess communication
A. allows processes to synchronize activity
B. is never necessary
C. is usually done via disk drives
D. is required for all processes
E. None of the above

What is the ready state of a

process?
A. when process is using the CPU
B.

when process is unable to run until some task has been completed

C. when process is scheduled to run after some execution

D. none of the mentioned
E. All of the mentioned

If a process fails, most operating system

write the error information to a
A. log file
B. another running process
C. new file
D. none of the mentioned
E.

Which one of the following is not

true?
A.

kernel is the program that constitutes the central core of the operating system

B.

kernel is the first part of operating system to load into memory during booting

C.

kernel is made of various modules which can not be loaded in running operating system

D.

kernel remains in the memory during the entire computer session

E. None of the above.

The program that allows the OS to work with

a printer or a video card is a(n) __________.
A. utility
B. applet
C. driver
D. system call
E.

A process can be terminated due to

A. normal exit
B. fatal error
C. killed by another process
D. all of the above
E. None of the above

Medical devices often run a

__________ operating system.
A. real-time
B. single user
C. multi-user
D. network
E. None of the above

Which type of operating system would be needed

to allow the students in a class to read a file that
the teacher also had open?
A. real-time
B. multi-tasking
C. batch processing
D. multi-user
E.

Which type of processing would be the most appropriate

for printing the bank statements ordered by customers
each day?
A. batch processing
B. multi-tasking
C. real-time processing
D. multi-user
E.

Which type of operating system would be the

best choice to control the braking system on a
car?
A. multi-processing
B. batch processing
C. real-time processing
D. multi-user
E.

Which is the processing method where tasks are

collected together, stored and then processed in
one go at a designated time?
A. multi-processing
B. real-time processing
C. batch processing
D. multi-user
E.

Which type of operating system will allow a

number of users to use the same system at the
same time?
A. multi-tasking
B. multi-processing
C. multi-user
D. real-time processing
E.

When the computer has to react within

a guaranteed time to an input, which
type of operating system is the best?
A. real-time processing
B. multi-tasking
C. batch processing
D. Time-sharing
E.

Which of the following is NOT an

operating system
A. Firefox OS
B. OS X
C. Google Chromium OS
D. Bendix
E.

Which of the following is NOT an

operating system
A. Apple Lisa
B. Apple Macintosh
C. OS XI
D. iOS
E.

Which of the following is NOT an

operating system
A. MS-DOS
B. Windows 95
C. Windows 9
D. Windows Phone 8.1
E.

What is the function of an

operating system?
A. Manages the flow of data and instructions
B. Takes care of scheduling jobs for execution
C. Manages computers resources very efficiently
D. All of the above
E.

The operating system manages

A. Disks and I/O devices
B. Processes
C. all of the mentioned
D. Memory
E.

Kernel type
A. Exokernel
B. Hybrid
C. Monolithic
D. Microkernel
E. All of these

Which is the first program run on a

computer when the computer boots up?
A. System operations
B. Operating system
C. System software
D. None
E.

Multiprogramming systems:
A. Are easier to develop than single programming systems
B. Execute each job faster
C. Are used only one large mainframe computers
D. Execute more jobs in the same time period
E. None of these

While working with MS-DOS, which command will

you use to transfer a specific file from one disk to
another?
A. DISKCOPY
B. RENAME
C. FORMAT
D. COPY
E. None of the above

The FIFO algorithm

A. executes first the job that last entered the queue
B. executes first the job with the least processor needs
C. execute first the job that has been in the queue the longest
D. executes first the job that first entered the queue
E.

To avoid the race condition, the number of

processes that may be simultaneously inside
their critical section is
A. 1
B. 8
C. 0
D.
E.

None of the above

Unix Operating System is an __________.

A. Time Sharing Operating System
B. Multi-tasking Operating System
C. Multi-User Operating Syste
D. All the Above
E.

Information about a process is

maintained in a _________.
A. Process Control Block
B. Stack
C. Translation Lookaside Buffer
D. All of the above
E. None of the above

Which file system does DOS

typically use ?
A. FAT16
B. FAT32
C. NTFS
D. WNFS
E.

Inter process communication can be

done through __________.
A. Messages
B. Mails
C. System calls
D. Traps
E.

Which technique was introduced because a

single job could not keep both the CPU and the
I/O devices busy?
A. Multiprogramming
B. Preemptive scheduling
C. SPOOLing
D. Time-sharing
E.

CPU performance is measured

through ________.
A. Throughput
B. MHz
C. Flaps
D. None of the above
E.

Which of the following is contained

in Process Control Block (PCB)?
A. Memory Limits
B. Process Number
C. List of Open files
D. All of the Above
E.

?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

Super computers typically employ

_______.
A. Multiprocessors OS
B. Real time Operating system
C. desktop OS
D. None of the above
E.