This is a computer science engineering quiz on operating systems, which includes questions related to the file systems in the operating systems and their implementation, etc.
Which of the following does not occur during the power-on-self-test (POST)?
_______ tend to represent a major bottleneck in system performance.
____________ writes occur in the order in which the disk subsystem receives them, and the writes are not buffered.
In ___________ writes, the data is stored in the cache.
______ is a unique tag, usually a number identifies the file within the file system.
The essential difference between an operating system like Linux and one like Windows is that:
Windows can run with an Intel processor, whereas Linux cannot
Linux is a proprietary whereas Windows is not
There are multiple versions of Linux, but only one version of Windows
Any programmer can modify Linux code which is not permitted with Windows
A page fault occurs when?
The Deadlock happens
The Segmentation starts
The page is found in the memory
The page is not found in the memory
Whenever you move a directory from one location to another______________.
All files inside the directory are moved
All the subdirectory inside that directory are moved
The directory is moved the source file is not moved
Both A and B
The Basic Input Output System (BIOS) resides in_______________.
RAM
ROM
The CPU
Memory Cache
In UNIX, even an ’empty’ disk has a percentage of its space lost to ______________.
Programs
Inodes
Virtual memory
Stacks
By preallocating the inodes and spreading them across the volume, we ___________ the system performance.
Improve
Decrease
Maintain
Do not affect
To create a file ____________.
Allocate the space in file system
Make an entry for new file in directory
Allocate the space in file system & make an entry for new file in directory
None of the mentioned
By using the specific system call, we can ____________.
Open the file
Read the file
Write into the file
All of the mentioned
File type can be represented by ____________.
File name
File extension
File identifier
None of the mentioned
Which file is a sequence of bytes organized into blocks understandable by the system’s linker?
Object file
Source file
Executable file
Text file