Operating System MCQs

1019 MCQs  (Page 36 of 102)

Which of the following does not interrupt a running process?
A. A device
B. Timer
C. Scheduler process
D. Power failure
Remote Procedure Calls are used ____________
A. For communication between two processes remotely different from each other on the same system
B. For communication between two processes on the same system
C. For communication between two processes on separate systems
D. None of the mentioned
What is stub?
A. Transmits the message to the server where the server side stub receives the message and invokes procedure on the server side
B. Packs the parameters into a form transmittable over the network
C. Locates the port on the server
D. All of the mentioned
To resolve the problem of data representation on different systems RPCs define _____________
A. Machine dependent representation of data
B. Machine representation of data
C. Machine-independent representation of data
D. None of the mentioned
What is the full form of RMI?
A. Remote memory installation
B. Remote memory invocation
C. Remote method installation
D. Remote method invocation
The remote method invocation __________
A. Allows a process to invoke memory on a remote object
B. Allows a thread to invoke a method on a remote object
C. Allows a thread to invoke memory on a remote object
D. Allows a process to invoke a method on a remote object
Message passing system allows processes to __________
A. Communicate with each other without sharing the same address space
B. Communicate with one another by resorting to shared data
C. Share data
D. Name the recipient or sender of the message