Operating System MCQs

1019 MCQs  (Page 43 of 102)

FAT stands for _____________
A. File attribute transport
B. File allocation table
C. Fork at time
D. None of the mentioned
By using FAT, random access time is __________
A. The same
B. Increased
C. Decreased
D. Not affected
A better way of contiguous allocation to extend the file size is _____________
A. Adding an extent (another chunk of contiguous space)
B. Adding an index table to the first contiguous block
C. Adding pointers into the first contiguous block
D. None of the mentioned
If the extents are too large, then what is the problem that comes in?
A. Internal fragmentation
B. External fragmentation
C. Starvation
D. All of the mentioned
The FAT is used much as a _________
A. Stack
B. Linked list
C. Data
D. Pointer
Contiguous allocation has two problems _________ and _________ that linked allocation solves.
A. External €? fragmentation & size €? declaration
B. Internal €? fragmentation & external €? fragmentation
C. Size €? declaration & internal €? fragmentation
D. Memory €? allocation & size €? declaration
Each _______ has its own index block.
A. Partition
B. Address
C. File
D. All of the mentioned
Indexed allocation _________ direct access.
A. Supports
B. Does not support
C. Is not related to
D. None of the mentioned