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