This is a computer science engineering quiz on operating systems, which includes questions on system protection, different types of system protection, etc.
Which runs on computer hardware and serve as platform for other software to run on?
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