operating system set 1 Detailed Explanation And More Example

Question : 1

Situations where two or more processes are reading or writing some shared data and the final result depends on who runs precisely which are called

a) race condition

b) critical sections

c) mutual exclusions

d) message passing

Question : 2

Priorities

a) are used to schedule processes

b) increase as a process remains in the processor

c) are attached to each page in the system

d) are assigned by the user.

Question : 3

The intensive jobs

a) use less processor time than most jobs

b) you are constrained by their I/O requirements

c) run more quickly than processor intensive jobs

d) should all be executed at the same time

Question : 4

Processor-bound tasks

a) use the processor more often

b) use more processor time

c) use less processor time

d) always take longer to execute

Question : 5

In monolithic operating system

a) Virtually any procedure can call any other procedure.

b) Virtually specific procedure can call any other procedure.

c) Virtually specific procedure can call specific procedure.

d) None of these.

Question : 6

For file management, in file operations device drivers are

a) Disk drivers

b) Tape drivers

c) A and B both

d) None of these.