Operating System MCQs

1019 MCQs  (Page 17 of 102)

In which scheduling certain amount of CPU time is allocated to each process?
A. Earliest deadline first scheduling
B. Proportional share scheduling
C. Equal share scheduling
D. None of the mentioned
The problem of priority inversion can be solved by ____________
A. Priority inheritance protocol
B. Priority inversion protocol
C. Both priority inheritance and inversion protocol
D. None of the mentioned
VxWorks is centered around ____________
A. Wind microkernel
B. Linux kernel
C. Unix kernel
D. None of the mentioned
The systems which allow only one process execution at a time, are called __________
A. Uniprogramming systems
B. Uniprocessing systems
C. Unitasking systems
D. None of the mentioned
A process can be terminated due to __________
A. Normal exit
B. Fatal error
C. Killed by another process
D. All of the mentioned
What is the ready state of a process?
A. When process is scheduled to run after some execution
B. When process is unable to run until some task has been completed
C. When process is using the cpu
D. None of the mentioned
What is interprocess communication?
A. Allows processes to communicate and synchronize their actions when using the same address space
B. Allows processes to communicate and synchronize their actions
C. Mechanism is used by cooperating processes to exchange data and information. there are two models of ipc: †? shared memory †? message passing
D. None of the mentioned
A set of processes is deadlock if __________
A. Each process is blocked and will remain so forever
B. Each process is terminated
C. All processes are trying to kill each other
D. None of the mentioned