In SCSI disks used in high end PCs, the controller maintains a list of _________ on the disk. The disk is initialized during ________ formatting which sets aside spare sectors not to the operating system.

A. Destroyed blocks, partitioning
B. Bad blocks, low level formatting
C. Destroyed blocks, high level formatting
D. Bad blocks, partitioning

The _______ program initializes all aspects of the system, from CPU registers to device controllers and the contents of main memory, and then starts the operating system.

A. Main
B. Bootloader
C. Bootstrap
D. Rom

The two steps the operating system takes to use a disk to hold its files are _______ and ________

A. Partitioning & logical formatting
B. Swap space creation & caching
C. Caching & logical formatting
D. Logical formatting & swap space creation

Whenever a process needs I/O to or from a disk it issues a ______________

A. System call to the cpu
B. System call to the operating system
C. A special procedure
D. All of the mentioned

On systems where there are multiple operating system, the decision to load a particular one is done by _____________

A. Boot loader
B. Bootstrap
C. Process control block
D. File control block

To recover from failures in the network operations _____________ information may be maintained.

A. Ip address
B. State
C. Stateless
D. Operating system

The operating system _______ the links when traversing directory trees, to preserve the acyclic structure of the system.

A. Considers
B. Ignores
C. Deletes
D. None of the mentioned

What will happen in the single level directory?

A. All directories must have unique names
B. All files must have unique names
C. All files must have unique owners
D. All of the mentioned

The operating system keeps a small table containing information about all open files called ____________

A. System table
B. Open-file table
C. File table
D. Directory table

The information about all files is kept in ____________

A. Swap space
B. Operating system
C. Seperate directory structure
D. None of the mentioned