Operating Systems MCQ Set 10

1. Which of the following is/ are the part of operating system?

A) Kernel services

B) Library services

C) Application level services

D) All of the above

2. The system of ............... generally ran one job at a time. These were called single stream batch processing.

A) 40's

B) 50's

C) 60's

D) 70's

3. In ............. generation of operating system, operating system designers develop the concept of multi-programming in which several jobs are in main memory at once.

A) First

B) Second

C) Third

D) Fourth

4. State True or False.

i) In spooling high speed device like a disk is interposed between running program and low-speed device in Input/output.

ii) By using spooling for example instead of writing directly to a printer, outputs are written to the disk.

A) i-True, ii-False

B) i-True, ii-True

C) i-False, ii-True

D) i-False, ii-False

5. Which of the following is/are the functions of operating system?

i) Sharing hardware among users.            ii) Allowing users to share data among themselves.

iii) Recovering from errors.                          iv) Preventing users from interfering with one another.

v) Scheduling resources among users.

A) i, ii, iii and iv only

B) ii, iii, iv and v only

C) i, iii, iv and v only

D) All i, ii, iii, iv and v

6. The first batch operating system was developed in the ................. by General Motors for use on an IBM 701.

A) mid 1940's

B) mid 1950's

C) mid 1960's

D) mid  1970's

7. Process is ........................

A) A program in execution

B) An instance of a program running on a computer.

C) The entity that can be assigned to and executed

D) All of the above.

8. ................... is a facility that allows programmers to address memory from a logical point of view, without regard to the main memory, physically available.

A) Visual memory

B) Real memory

C) Virtual memory

D) Secondary memory

9. ............ is a large kernel, including scheduling file system, networking, device drivers, memory management and more.

A) Monolithic kernel

B) Micro kernel

C) Macro kernel

D) Mini kernel

10. A .................... architecture assigns only a few essential functions to the kernel,  including address spaces, Inter process communication(IPC) and basic scheduling.

A) Monolithic kernel

B) Micro kernel

C) Macro kernel

D) Mini kernel 

Answers

1.d

2.b

3.c

4.b

5.d

6.b

7.d

8.c

9.a

10.b