Operating System - 2

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locate the transmission devices :-
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Network cards , Modems
Your Answer
Tapes , Network cards , Modems

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The user process issues a network I/O system call to send the character to the remote machine.
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True
Your Answer
True

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The process by which objects of one class acquire properties of objects of other class is called
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Inheritance
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Inheritance

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Windows NT uses a message passing implementation for I/O.
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True
Your Answer
True

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We need two separate modes of operation to protect the operating system and all other programs and their data from malfunctioning program. Which are those modes?
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User mode , Monitor mode
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User mode , Monitor mode

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Your Answer
Round-robin
Time quantum
Time quantum
First-come First-served
First come job
First come job
Shortest job
Shortest job
Shortest job
Priority
Highest priority job
Highest priority job

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The segment is :-
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Logical entity
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Logical entity

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In UNIX, decisions regarding which process to swap in or out are made by whom?
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Swapper
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Memory handler

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A ________ is a client-server mechanism that enables an application on one machine to make a procedure call to code on another machine.
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Remote-procedure-call
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Remote-procedure-call

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When each process that wants to communicate must explicitly name the recipient or sender of the communication, then such communication is called as :-
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Direct communication
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Indirect communication

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In Linux, the allocator uses a ________ algorithm to keep track of available physical pages.
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Buddy-heap
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Binary-search

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What does the rows of the access matrix represents?
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Domains
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Domains

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Every change in policy requires a change in the underlying :-
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Mechanism
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System

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A ________ in NT is an object that provides a uniform interface for files, whether they are local or remote.
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Redirector
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Domain

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In Solaris 2, user-level threads may be:-
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Bound , Unbound
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Bound , Unbound

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An audit log records which things about an object ?
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Time , User , Type of access
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Time , User , Type of access

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One-to-one model is supported by following systems :-
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Windows NT , OS/2
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OS/2 , Windows NT

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To protect the system, we must take security measures at two levels, such as :-
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Physical level , Human level
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Human level , Global level

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If the process is waiting for some event to occur then it is said to be in :-
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Waiting state
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Waiting state

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A common representation for a discussion of process scheduling is a :-
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Queuing diagram
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Process state diagram

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At Physical level, the site or sites containing the computer systems must be physically secured against armed or surreptitious entry by intruders.
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True
Your Answer
True

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When you express user-system interaction, the scenario in the model is called ________
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Case model
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Case model

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Data transfer from cache to CPU and registers is usually a software function, with little operating system intervention.
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False
Your Answer
True

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A file in NTFS is a simple byte stream as it is in MS-DOS or UNIX .
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False
Your Answer
False

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Polymorphism means ability to take
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More than one form
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More than one form

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Aging algorithm is based on LRU.
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True
Your Answer
True

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The virtual memory portion of the NT executive is the ________.
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Virtual memory manager
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Virtual memory manager

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There are two types of Message passing, they are :-
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Synchronous , Asynchronous
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Synchronous , Asynchronous

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Web servers use the ________ protocol to communicate with web browsers.
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http
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http

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The security of a system can be improved by two management techniques, such as :-
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Threat monitoring , Audit Log
Your Answer
Audit Log , Threat finding

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The concept of protection levels and call gates were pioneered in MULTICS, where they were viewed as protection ________.
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Ring
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Ring

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We say that a system is secure if its resources are used and accessed as intended under all circumstances.
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True
Your Answer
True

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The ________ controller is the controller at the computer end of the bus.
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Host
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Cpu

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In Linux, the paging system can be divided into sections, namely:-
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Policy algorithm , Paging mechanism
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Policy algorithm , Paging mechanism

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Keyboard is a sharable device.
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True
Your Answer
False

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Transfer of data from disk to memory is usually controlled by the operating system.
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True
Your Answer
True

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Prototyping not only helps to build a quality design but also enables the designer to build the system decremantally.
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False
Your Answer
True

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The UNIX system uses ________ to avoid the necessity of keeping its password list secret.
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Encryption
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Encryption

Match The Following
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Your Answer
Read-write devices
Disks
Disks
Dedicated devices
Tape
CD-ROM
Read-only devices
CD-ROM
Tape
Write-only devices
Graphics controller
Keyboard

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A procedure call, request to execute a method is termed as
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Message
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Message

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Context switch times are highly dependent on ________ support.
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Hardware
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Hardware

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Two main jobs of a computer are :-
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I/O , Processing
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I/O , Processing

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The 4.3BSD operating system is the version of :-
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UNIX
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UNIX

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The number of processes that are completed per time unit is called as:-
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Throughput of system
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Throughput of system

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Once the I/O is started , which two courses of action are possible?
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Synchronous I/O , Asynchronous I/O , Simple I/O
Your Answer
Synchronous I/O , Asynchronous I/O

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Security violations of the system can be categorized as :-
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Malicious , Accidental
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Malicious , Accidental

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A process migrates between the various ________ throughout its lifetime.
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Scheduling queues
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Scheduling queues