Operating Systems Concepts Questions

• Scissoring enables
• Feed back queue
• In memory systems, boundary registers
• What is the name of the system which deals with the running of the actual computer and not with the programming problems?
• The main function of the dispatcher (the portion of the process scheduler) is
• The errors that can be pointed out by the compiler are
• What is the name given to all the programs inside the computer with makes it usable?
• Four necessary conditions for deadlock to exist are: mutual exclusion, no-preemption, circular wait and
• In an absolute loading scheme, which loader function is accomplished by loader
• Which of the following is a block device
• Which, of the following checks, cannot be carried out on the input data to a system?
• Semaphores
• The technique, for sharing the time of a computer among several jobs. Which switches jobs so rapidly such that each job appears to have the computer to itself:
• A public key encryption system
• Which of the following is characteristic of an operating system?
• What is the initial value of the semaphore to allow only one of the many processes to enter their critical section?
• In which of the storage placement strategies a program is placed in the largest available hole in the main memory?
• Page-map table is
• What scheduling algorithm allows processes that are logical runnable to be temporarily suspended?
• Paging