Processes: Programs in Execution

This is a Computer Science Engineering quiz. In this, you will find questions related to the processes in the operating systems.

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What is an operating system?

Interface between the hardware and application programs Collection of programs that manages hardware resources System service provider to the application programs All of the mentioned

In Operating Systems, which of the following is/are CPU scheduling algorithms?

Priority Round Robin Shortest Job First All of the mentioned

CPU scheduling is the basis of ___________.

Multiprogramming operating systems Larger memory sized systems Multiprocessor systems None of the mentioned

To access the services of the operating system, the interface is provided by the ___________.

Library

System calls

Assembly instructions

API

You should save your computer from?

Viruses Time bombs Worms All of the above

If there are multiple recycle bin for a hard disk:

You can set different size for each recycle bin

You can choose which recycle bin to use to store your deleted files

You can make any one of them default recycle bin

None of above

Identify false statement:

You can find deleted files in recycle bin

You can restore any files in recycle bin if you ever need

You can increase free space of disk by sending files in recycle bin

You can right click and choose Empty Recycle Bin to clean it at once

If the displayed system time and date is wrong, you can reset it using:

Write

Calendar

Write file

Control panel

World Wide Web is being standard by:

Worldwide corporation

W3C

World Wide Consortium

World Wide Web Standard

In operating system, each process has its own __________.

Address space and global variables

Open files

Pending alarms, signals and signal handlers

All of the mentioned

In Unix, Which system call creates the new process?

Fork

Create

New

None of the mentioned

A process can be terminated due to __________.

Normal exit

Fatal error

Killed by another process

All of the mentioned

What is the ready state of a process?

When process is scheduled to run after some execution

When process is unable to run until some task has been completed

When process is using the CPU

None of the mentioned

What is the main function of the command interpreter?

To provide the interface between the API and application program

To handle the files in the operating system

To get and execute the next user-specified command

None of the mentioned

The systems which allow only one process execution at a time, are called __________.

Uniprogramming systems

Uniprocessing systems

Unitasking systems

None of the mentioned

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Processes: Programs in Execution
Questions: 15
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