Process Synchronization: Coordinating the Execution of Processes

This is a Computer science Engineering quiz on operating systems, which includes questions on process synchronization, its types, etc.

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Which is the latest version of MS Windows?

Windows 2007 Windows 7 Windows 11 Windows 10

The bounded buffer problem is also known as ____________.

Readers – Writers problem

Dining – Philosophers problem

Producer – Consumer problem

None of the mentioned

In the bounded buffer problem, there are the empty and full semaphores that ____________.

Count the number of empty and full buffers

Count the number of empty and full memory spaces

Count the number of empty and full queues

None of the mentioned

In the bounded buffer problem ____________.

There is only one buffer

There are n buffers ( n being greater than one but finite)

There are infinite buffers

The buffer size is bounded

To ensure difficulties do not arise in the readers – writers problem, _______ are given exclusive access to the shared object.

Readers

Writers

Readers and Writers

None of the mentioned

The dining – philosophers problem will occur in case of ____________.

5 philosophers and 5 chopsticks

4 philosophers and 5 chopsticks

3 philosophers and 5 chopsticks

6 philosophers and 5 chopsticks

Which of the following Operating systems is better for implementing a Client-Server network.

MS DOS

Windows 95

Windows 98

Windows 2000

My Computer was introduced from___________.

Windows 3.1

Windows 3.11

Windows 95

Windows 98

Which of the following Windows do not have Start button__________.

Windows Vista

Windows 7

Windows 8

None of above

A monitor is a type of ____________.

Semaphore

Low level synchronization construct

High level synchronization construct

None of the mentioned

A monitor is characterized by ____________.

A set of programmer defined operators

An identifier

The number of variables in it

All of the mentioned

A procedure defined within a ________ can access only those variables declared locally within the _______ and its formal parameters.

Process, Semaphore

Process, Monitor

Semaphore, Semaphore

Monitor, Monitor

Which operating system does not support networking between computers?

Windows 3.1

Windows 95

Windows 2000

Windows NT

The monitor construct ensures that ____________.

Only one process can be active at a time within the monitor

N number of processes can be active at a time within the monitor (n being greater than 1)

The queue has only one process in it at a time

All of the mentioned

What are the operations that can be invoked on a condition variable?

Wait & signal

Hold & wait

Signal & hold

Continue & signal

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Process Synchronization: Coordinating the Execution of Processes
Questions: 15
Contributed by:
james