Operating System MCQs

1019 MCQs  (Page 76 of 102)

When the page fault rate is low ____________
A. The turnaround time increases
B. The effective access time increases
C. The effective access time decreases
D. Turnaround time & effective access time increases
Locality of reference implies that the page reference being made by a process ____________
A. Will always be to the page used in the previous page reference
B. Is likely to be one of the pages used in the last few page references
C. Will always be one of the pages existing in memory
D. Will always lead to page faults
Because of virtual memory, the memory can be shared among ____________
A. Processes
B. Threads
C. Instructions
D. None of the mentioned
The pager concerns with the ____________
A. Individual page of a process
B. Entire process
C. Entire thread
D. First page of a process
Swap space exists in ____________
A. Primary memory
B. Secondary memory
C. Cpu
D. None of the mentioned
Effective access time is directly proportional to ____________
A. Page-fault rate
B. Hit ratio
C. Memory access time
D. None of the mentioned
In FIFO page replacement algorithm, when a page must be replaced ____________
A. Oldest page is chosen
B. Newest page is chosen
C. Random page is chosen
D. None of the mentioned