Operating System – Set 3 January 28, 2025 by aasi 0% Report a question What’s wrong with this question? You cannot submit an empty report. Please add some details. 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950 Operating System – Set 3 Dear ! This is Operating System – Set 3 Quiz and it contains 50 questions. Keep Learning! 1 / 50 1) The software that performs the specific jobs to be done in a business is called? Application software Utilities System software OS 2 / 50 2) which of the following is an example of a systems program ? database system text formatter command interpreter Web browser 3 / 50 3) Since virus are only a form of software, they primarily infect–? Programs Hardware None of these Data 4 / 50 4) If a programs terminates abnormally , a dump of memory may be examined by a ____ to determine the cause of the problem. debugger control card module shell 5 / 50 5) In what way is an operating system like a government ? It seldom functions correctly It creates an environment within which other programs can do useful work It is always concerned primarily with the individual's needs It performs most useful functions by itself 6 / 50 6) What programs runs first after computer is booted and loading GUI ? File manager Desktop manager Windows Explorer Authentication 7 / 50 7) Bootstrap programs must be provided using ________. non-volatile ROM devices volatile memory erasable-programmable memory special magnetic disk tracks 8 / 50 8) for a single-processor system ________ processes spend long times waiting to execute input-output always causes CPU slowdown process scheduling is always optimal there will never be more than one running process 9 / 50 9) The processes of starting or restarting a computer system by loading instruction from a secondary storage device into the completer memory is called—? Padding Booting Duping Restarting 10 / 50 10) A computer program that instruct other programs to perform a particular type of operation is–? Compiler Package software Interpreter System software 11 / 50 11) What is the name of the latest server operating system developed by microsoft? Windows 2003 Windows 2008 Windows server 2016 Windows server 2019 12 / 50 12) Which of the following processors use RISE technology? Processor 468dx Power PC 486sx 13 / 50 13) My Computer was introduced from Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows 3.1 Windows 3.11 14 / 50 14) What type of computer programming is used for airplane ticket reservation system? Single Real time programming Multi programming Time sharing 15 / 50 15) A term used to describe interconnected computer configuration is–? Multi programming Multiprocessing Modulation Multi-threading 16 / 50 16) An advantages to using a higher-level language to implement an operating system is a. The code can be written faster, is compact, and is easier to understand and debug d. Both (a) and (c) c. an operating system is far easier to port to some other hardware if it is written in a higher- level language b. modern computer science student do not learn machine language programming 17 / 50 17) The following are valid process states. Running, Blocked, Waiting Terminating , waiting, Threshing Next, Running, Halting None of these responses is correct 18 / 50 18) Two important design issues for cache memory are ____ Size and replacement policy Speed and volatility Power consumption and reusability size and access privileges 19 / 50 19) A system program which helps the execution of user programs is known as……..? Entertainment System software Application program Operating system 20 / 50 20) The two mode of operation of an operating system are called _________. ready and running kernel and user Process and kernel interrupt and system 21 / 50 21) Which of the following Operating system is better for implementing a Client Server Network ? MS DOS Windows 98 Windows 95 Windows 2000 22 / 50 22) An approach that permits the computer to work on several programs instead of one is–? Over lapped processing On-line thesaurus Multiprogramming Multi user 23 / 50 23) Which is the following does not support more than one program at a time ? UNIX Linux DOS Windows 24 / 50 24) A hard disk becomes totally inaccessible when a computer virus corrupts its? Route directory Disk stack Cylinder Partition table 25 / 50 25) Most often , application programs access system resources using ________. Kernel threads user threads System calls application programs interfaces 26 / 50 26) During the boot process, the …….. looks for the system files? DVD BIOS CPU CD 27 / 50 27) Which of the following is not an operating system ? Solaris Oracle E. CP/M Windows XP Linux 28 / 50 28) Which of the following is not considered a resource that may be allocated by an operating system ? storage device file system memory CPU 29 / 50 29) A ____can be used to prevent a user program from never returning control to the operating system. timer firewall program counter portal 30 / 50 30) A popular operating system used with micro-computer is–? Embedded XENIX DOS UNIX 31 / 50 31) A directly accessible appointment calendar is feature of a— resident package? Memory ALU Hard disk CPU 32 / 50 32) An approach that permits the computer to work on several programs instead of one is–? On-line thesaurus Multi user Multiprogramming Over lapped processing 33 / 50 33) Which operating system can you give smallest file name ? Windows NT DOS Ps/2 Windows 34 / 50 34) CPU registers are often used to _____. passes parameters to the operating system store values for reuse by other user programs None of these responses are correct saves memory for storing programs 35 / 50 35) Embedded computers typically run on a ___ operating system real-time clustered network Windows XP 36 / 50 36) Which of the following is an example of a real time operating system ? MS DOS Windows XP Lynx process Control 37 / 50 37) Which of the following is a property of peer-to-peer systems ? Clients and servers are not distinguished from one another They do not offer any advantages over traditional client -server systems Separate machines act as either the client of the server but not both They suffers from the server acting as the bottleneck in performance 38 / 50 38) In a virtual machine , each programs believes that it has _____. another "virtual" computer to assist in its operations its own memory more memory than is physically available on the machine multiple processors 39 / 50 39) The list of processes waiting for a particular I/O device is called a/n ____. interrupt queue device queue standby queue ready queue 40 / 50 40) What is the name of the latest server operating system developed by microsoft? Windows NT Windows 2003 Windows 2000 Windows XP 41 / 50 41) ctrl, shift and alt are called __________ keys. modifier alphanumeric function adjustment 42 / 50 42) Which of the following Windows do not have start Button ? Windows Vista Windows 7 None of these Windows 8 43 / 50 43) you should choose Sleep option when you finish working and going to bed when computer gets hanged frequently . Let it sleep for some time The computer is tried after working for the whole day you are leaving for a very short time and want to resume you work shortly 44 / 50 44) Medium-term scheduling is performed _______. on processor in the ready queue typically on submitted jobs when processes must be moved from waiting to ready state None of these are correct 45 / 50 45) The most common secondary storage device is ____. magnetic disk dynamic random access memory random access memory tape drive 46 / 50 46) Group of instructions that directs a computer is called–? Logic CPU Programs Memory 47 / 50 47) Which of the following operating system does not implement the multitasking truly ? Windows XP Windows NT MS DOS Windows 98 48 / 50 48) Which one is not operating system? Os/2 P11 UNIX Windows 49 / 50 49) In a virtual machine , each programs believes that it has _____. another "virtual" computer to assist in its operations its own memory multiple processors more memory than is physically available on the machine 50 / 50 50) Context switching between processes is carried out by the dispatcher short term scheduler thread manager interrupts handler Your score isThe average score is 0%🎉 Challenge alert! 💡 Share this quiz with your friends and see who scores the highest! 🏆🤩🔥 LinkedIn Facebook Follow Us @ 0% Restart quiz Exit We’d love to hear your thoughts! 📝 Share your valuable review with us. 🙌 🌟 Thank you for your support! Your feedback means the world to us. 🙏💖 Send feedback
