operating system Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

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.

Question : 7

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 : 8

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 : 9

Which type of design problem in file system

a) how the file system should look to the user

b) algorithm and data structure must be created to map the logical file system onto the secondary storage device

c) Both A and B above

d) none of the above

Question : 10

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