Protection: Mechanism Which Controls the Access of Programs, Processes, or Users

This is a computer science engineering quiz on operating systems, which includes questions on system protection, different types of system protection, etc.

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Which runs on computer hardware and serve as platform for other software to run on?

Operating System Application Software System Software All

Which principle states that programs, users and even the systems be given just enough privileges to perform their task?

Principle of operating system

Principle of least privilege

Principle of process scheduling

None of the mentioned

_______ is an approach to restricting system access to authorized users.

Role-based access control

Process-based access control

Job-based access control

None of the mentioned

For system protection, a process should access _____________.

All the resources

Only those resources for which it has authorization

Few resources but authorization is not required

All of the mentioned

The protection domain of a process contains _____________.

Object name

Rights-set

Both object name and rights-set

None of the mentioned

If the set of resources available to the process is fixed throughout the process’s lifetime then its domain is _____________.

Static

Dynamic

Neither static nor dynamic

None of the mentioned

Access matrix model for user authentication contains _____________.

A list of objects

A list of domains

A function which returns an object’s type

All of the mentioned

Global table implementation of the matrix table contains _____________.

Domain

Object

Right-set

All of the mentioned

For a domain _______ is a list of objects together with the operation allowed on these objects.

Capability list

Access list

Both capability and access list

None of the mentioned

Which one of the following is capability based protection system?

Hydra

Cambridge CAP system

Both hydra and cambridge CAP system

None of the mentioned

In UNIX, domain switch is accomplished via _____________.

File system

User

Superuser

None of the mentioned

An operating system version designed for use with a media center PC is Microsoft Windows XP.

Home edition

Media center edition

Tablet PC edition

None of above

If your hard disk is partitioned into 3 drives, the number of recycle bins for that hard disk is___________.

1

2

3

4

The date and time displays on_________.

Taskbar

Status bar

System tray

Launch pad

...... runs on a computer hardware and serves as a platform for other system to run on.

Operating system

Application system

System software

All of above

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Protection: Mechanism Which Controls the Access of Programs, Processes, or Users
Questions: 15
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