Operating System Mock Test 6

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Question 1 of 10

1. A swapper manipulates ___________ whereas the pager is concerned with individual _______ of a process.

the entire process, pages

none of the mentioned

the entire process, parts

all the pages of a process, segments

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Question 2 of 10

2. Virtual memory allows ____________

execution of a process without being in physical memory

a program to be larger than the secondary storage

execution of a process that may not be completely in memory

a program to be smaller than the physical memory

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Question 3 of 10

3. What is Thread cancellation?

none of the mentioned

the task of removing a thread once its work is done

the task of terminating a thread before it has completed

the task of destroying the thread once its work is done

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Question 4 of 10

4. In the Many to One model, if a thread makes a blocking system call ___________

a part of the process will stay blocked, with the rest running

none of the mentioned

the entire process will run

the entire process will be blocked

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Question 5 of 10

5. When we write something on the disk, which one of the following can not happen?

successful completion

partial failure

none of the mentioned

total failure

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which of the following calls never returns an error?

open

getpid

ioctl

fork

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Question 7 of 10

7. The first linux kernel which supports the SMP hardware?

linux 1.0

linux 2.0

linux 0.1

linux 1.2

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Question 8 of 10

8. In most cases, if a process is sent a signal while it is executing a system call ____________

the system call is interrupted by the signal, and the signal handler comes in

the system call will continue execution and the signal will be ignored completely

none of the mentioned

the signal has no effect until the system call completes

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Question 9 of 10

9. The valid - invalid bit, in this case, when valid indicates?

the page is not in memory

the page is illegal

the page is in memory

the page is not legal

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Question 10 of 10

10. When one thread immediately terminates the target thread, it is called ____________

Systematic cancellation

Sudden Termination

Asynchronous cancellation

Deferred cancellation

Question 10 of 10