Secondary Storage MCQs

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Operating System Subcategories

Application Io Interface 1	Application Io Interface 2
Atomic Transactions	Basics
Classic Sync Problems	Communication Systems Bandwidth Transmission Medium
Cpu Scheduling	Cpu Scheduling 2
Cpu Scheduling Algorithms 1	Cpu Scheduling Algorithms 2
Cpu Scheduling Benefits	Critical Section Problem
Deadlock	Deadlock Avoidance
Deadlock Detection	Deadlock Prevention
Deadlock Recovery	Disk Management
Disk Scheduling 1	Disk Scheduling 2
Distributed File System	Distributed Operating System
Distributed Synchronization	File System 1
File System Allocation Methods 1	File System Allocation Methods 2
File System Allocation Methods 3	File System Concepts
File System Free Space Performance	File System Implementation
File System Interface Access Methods 1	File System Interface Access Methods 2
File System Interface Directory Structure 1	File System Interface Directory Structure 2
File System Interface Mounting Sharing	File System Interface Protection
File System Recovery	Inter Process Communication
Io Subsystem	Kernel Io Subsystems
Linux	Mass Storage Raid 1
Mass Storage Raid 2	Mass Storage Tertiary Storage
Memory Allocation 1	Memory Allocation 2
Memory Management	Memory Management Paging 1
Memory Management Paging 2	Memory Management Segmentation
Memory Management Swapping 1	Memory Management Swapping 2
Multi Threading Models	Multimedia System Compression 1
Multimedia System Compression 2	Multimedia System Compression 3
Multimedia System Cpu Disk Scheduling	Multimedia System Network Management
Network File System 1	Network File System 2
Network Structure Topology	Operating System
Process Control Block	Process Creation
Process Rpc	Process Scheduling Queue
Process Structures	Process Sync Monitors
Process Synchronization	Processes
Protection Access Matrix	Protection Concepts
Protection Memory Protection	Protection Revocation Access Rights
Robustness	Rtos
Secondary Storage	Security
Security Cryptography	Security Intrusion Detection
Security Program System Threats	Security System Facility
Security User Authentication	Semaphores 1
Semaphores 2	Swap Space Management
Threads	Threads Cancellation
Threads Fork Exec	Threads Pools
Threads Signal Handling	Threads Ult Klt
Two Port Network	Virtual Memory
Virtual Memory Demand Paging	Virtual Memory Frame Allocation
Virtual Memory Page Replacement Algorithms 1	Virtual Memory Page Replacement Algorithms 2
Virtual Memory Thrashing

The operating system is responsible for?

A. Disk initialization
B. Booting from disk
C. Bad-block recovery
D. All of the mentioned

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Which one of the following is not a secondary storage?

A. Magnetic disks
B. Magnetic tapes
C. Ram
D. None of the mentioned

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Which private network uses storage protocol rather than networking protocol?

A. Storage area network
B. Local area network
C. Wide area network
D. None of the mentioned

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The time for the disk arm to move the heads to the cylinder containing the desired sector is called ___________

A. Disk time
B. Seek time
C. Arm time
D. Sector time

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Which algorithm of disk scheduling selects the request with the least seek time from the current head positions?

A. Sstf scheduling
B. Fcfs scheduling
C. Scan scheduling
D. Look scheduling

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A swap space can reside in ___________

A. Separate disk partition
B. Ram
C. Cache
D. None of the mentioned

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RAID level 1 refers to ___________

A. Disk arrays with striping
B. Disk mirroring
C. Both disk arrays with striping and disk mirroring
D. ?. advertisement

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When we write something on the disk, which one of the following can not happen?

A. Successful completion
B. Partial failure
C. Total failure
D. None of the mentioned

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What will happen during the recovery from a failure?

A. Each pair of physical block is examined
B. Specified pair of physical block is examined
C. First pair of physical block is examined
D. None of the mentioned

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The replacement of a bad block generally is not totally automatic because ___________

A. Data in bad block can not be replaced
B. Data in bad block is usually lost
C. Bad block does not contain any data
D. None of the mentioned

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