Real Time Operating systems

This set of MCQs helps students to learn about real time operating systems, commonly known as an RTOS, is a software component that rapidly switches between tasks, giving the impression that multiple programs are being executed at the same time on a single processing core.

Start Quiz

Which of the following provides a buffer between the user and the low-level interfaces to the hardware?

Operating system

Kernel

Software

Hardware

Which of the following enables the user to utilise the system efficiently?

Kernel

Operating system

Software

Hardware

Which of the following can make the application program hardware independent?

Software

Application manager

Operating system

Kernel

Which of the following speed up the testing process?

Kernel

Software

Application manager

Program debugging tools

Which of the following includes its own I/O routine?

Hardware

Kernel

Operating system

Application manager

Which forms the heart of the operating system?

Kernel

Applications

Hardware

Operating system

Which of the following locates a parameter block by using an address pointer?

OS

Kernel

System

Memory

Which of the following are not dependent on the actual hardware performing the physical task?

Applications

Hardware

Registers

Parameter block

Which of the following bus can easily upgrade the system hardware?

Control bus

Data bus

VMEbus

Bus interface unit

Which of the following is the first widely used operating system?

MS-DOS

Windows XP

Android

CP/M

Which of the following works by dividing the processor’s time?

Single task operating system

Multitask operating system

Kernel

Applications

Which of the following decides which task can have the next time slot?

Single task operating system

Applications

Kernel

Software

Which of the following controls the time slicing mechanism in a multitasking operating system?

Kernel

Single tasking kernel

Multitasking kernel

Application manager

Which of the following provides a time period for the context switch?

Timer

Counter

Time slice

Time machine

Which of the following can periodically trigger the context switch?

Software interrupt

Hardware interrupt

Peripheral

Memory

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Real Time Operating systems
Questions: 15
Contributed by:
Steve