Distributed Operating System: System Software Over a Collection of Independent Computational Nodes

This is a computer science engineering quiz on operating systems, which includes questions based on the distributed operating systems.

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Which is the first program run on a computer when the computer boots up?

System software Operating system System operations None

In distributed system, each processor has its own ___________.

Local memory

Clock

Both local memory and clock

None of the mentioned

If one site fails in distributed system then ___________.

The remaining sites can continue operating

All the sites will stop working

Directly connected sites will stop working

None of the mentioned

Network operating system runs on ___________.

Server

Every system in the network

Both server and every system in the network

None of the mentioned

Which technique is based on compile-time program transformation for accessing remote data in a distributed-memory parallel system?

Cache coherence scheme

Computation migration

Remote procedure call

Message passing

Processes on the remote systems are identified by ___________.

Host ID

Host name and identifier

Identifier

Process ID

Logical extension of computation migration is ___________.

Process migration

System migration

Thread migration

Data migration

Which routing technique is used in a distributed system?

Fixed routing

Virtual routing

Dynamic routing

All of the mentioned

In distributed systems, link and site failure is detected by ___________.

Polling

Handshaking

Token passing

None of the mentioned

The capability of a system to adapt to the increased service load is called ___________.

Scalability

Tolerance

Capacity

None of the mentioned

Internet provides _______ for remote login.

Telnet

Http

Ftp

Rpc

An operating system version designed for use with a tablet PC is Microsoft Windows XP?

Home edition

Media center edition

Tablet PC edition

None of the above

The ....... contains commands associated with the My Computer window.

Standard menu

Start menu

System menu

None of the above

Which is the layer of a computer system between the hardware and the user program?

Operating environment

Operating system

System environment

None

The operating system is the most common type of ...... Software.

Communication

Application

System

Word processing software

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Distributed Operating System: System Software Over a Collection of Independent Computational Nodes
Questions: 15
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