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CE 155 A - OPERATING SYSTEMS
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1Application APPz requires 500mb of memory capacity in order to run. OSx allocates 500mb while OSy allocates 100mb to APPz . OSy is less efficient than OSx.
- ATrue
- BFalse
2Thomas J. Watson predicted that there is a market of 5 computers per person on the average.
- ATrue
- BFalse
3The Operating System is a program.
- ATrue
- BFalse
4Advancements in transistor technology lead to the decrease in size of computer systems and at the same time increase its performance in both time and capacity.
- ATrue
- BFalse
5An Operating System is said to be efficient if it can provide the use of the requested application the user regardless of the time that it makes the application available the user.
- ATrue
- BFalse
6MS Paint is a non-resident program that is loaded into the main memory only when the user opens up the Paint application, and can be called a process once it is loaded into the main memory.
- ATrue
- BFalse
7The file management sub-program of MS-DOS (MSDOS.SYS) is a non-resident program that is loaded into the main memory only when a file save/save as/rename/delete operation is requested by the user.
- ATrue
- BFalse
8svchost.exe is a kernel program that is required by the OS to continuously run, thus it is always called a process when the system is on.
- ATrue
- BFalse
9Some kernel programs such as the Command Line Interpreter are dynamic programs therefore it can free up RAM space for other applications to use during runtime.
- ATrue
- BFalse
10Windows 10 that requires 16GB of hard disk space will also require 16GB of RAM when it runs.
- ATrue
- BFalse
11The continuous evolution of the Unix OS by AT&T led to the adaptation of universities and computer science organizations in developing other Unix-based OS such as Rand and BSD.
- ATrue
- BFalse
12Ken Arnold developed a programming library that is widely used for TUI applications.
- ATrue
- BFalse
13Bell Labs released Unix version 6 outside AT&T during the mid 70s.
- ATrue
- BFalse
144BSD lead to ARPANET, TCP/IP that made today’s Internet possible.
- ATrue
- BFalse
15BSD enhancements on the memory management component of the OS led to further research fundings for Robotics and very large scale integrated systems.
- ATrue
- BFalse
16The PDP-11/20 includes an advanced capability of text processing that aimed to ease up documenting patent applications.
- ATrue
- BFalse
17During the 1960s, companies that owns mainframe computers had it rented and clients are charged on a per program executions rate.
- ATrue
- BFalse
18The Space Travel game had its second version developed by Dennis Ritchie using assembly language which resulted to a faster execution run the PDP-7 system.
- ATrue
- BFalse
19During the late 70s, Unix OS by Bell labs were developed to run across multiple hardware platforms, on different processor and memory speed and capacity.
- ATrue
- BFalse
20Unix based OS uses the C shell interface and vi text editor.
- ATrue
- BFalse
21The Monolithic OS is faster than the Hybrid Kernel OS in terms of kernel program access (aka system call).
- ATrue
- BFalse
22A program that is physically located in the hard drive can be called a process.
- ATrue
- BFalse
23Closing/Exiting the MS Word application by clicking on the red ‘x’ button will make the OS Memory Management component to delete the MS Word process and deallocate the main memory locations assigned to it.
- ATrue
- BFalse
24Double clicking on the Chrome icon to open up the application will trigger the OS Process Management component to create the Chrome process.
- ATrue
- BFalse
25In a Microkernel OS, a newly released driver that is incorporated into the OS kernel will have a higher probability of crashing the whole system than incorporating it in the OS user mode.
- ATrue
- BFalse
26The SHORT-TERM/CPU SCHEDULER selects a process from the READY queue and allocates the process to the CPU.
- ATrue
- BFalse
27A process that will print a 100 page document will demand for a longer CPU usage to manage sending the data to the printer device.
- ATrue
- BFalse
28A process that will migrate your 2GB .doc and .pdf files, from your desktop hard drive to your external drive, will demand for a longer CPU burst than IO burst to manage the file transfer.
- ATrue
- BFalse
29A process runs 5ns every time it is given runtime (running state). 10 context switches that take 2 ns each is better than 20 context switches that take 1 ns each in terms of overhead.
- ATrue
- BFalse
30The LONG-TERM/JOB SCHEDULER selects a process from the READY queue and swaps out the process to the VIRTUAL MEMORY.
- ATrue
- BFalse
31The MEDIUM-TERM SCHEDULER / SWAPPER selects a process from the JOB queue and admits the process to the MAIN MEMORY.
- ATrue
- BFalse
32A process that have 10 CPU bursts spending a cumulative time of 20 secs in a running state and 20 IO bursts spending a cumulative time of 10 secs in a waiting state is an IO bound type of process.
- ATrue
- BFalse
33A process that will migrate your 2GB .doc and .pdf files, from your desktop hard drive to your external drive, will demand for a longer CPU burst than IO burst to manage the file transfer.
- ATrue
- BFalse
34A Process P1 that is RUNNING state will have a program counter value/number that is dynamic/changes.
- ATrue
- BFalse
35In an OS interrupt event, a running process becomes a terminated process.
- ATrue
- BFalse
36A high priority Windows Update process CANNOT BE executed WITHOUT its own PCB.
- ATrue
- BFalse
37The PCB of a process CREATED and COMPLETED in the READY state and is DELETED in memory once the process is TERMINATED.
- ATrue
- BFalse
38A process that is currently in the RUNNING state can ONLY have a state transition to READY and TERMINATE?
- ATrue
- BFalse
39The MS Word application is currently waiting for the completion of printing the document. The act of clicking the exit "X" button will change the MS Word process state from waiting to terminated.
- ATrue
- BFalse
40A process that is currently in the RUNNING state can ONLY have a state transition to READY and TERMINATE?
- ATrue
- BFalse
41A high priority kernel process CAN BE executed WITHOUT its own PCB.
- ATrue
- BFalse
42A Process P1 that is WAITING state will have a program counter value/number that is dynamic/changes.
- ATrue
- BFalse
43In an IO event completion, the process that was in a waiting state returns back to a running state.
- ATrue
- BFalse
44The PCB of a process STARTS TO BE CREATED in the READY state and is SAVED in memory once the process is TERMINATED.
- ATrue
- BFalse
45A Process P4 that is READY state will have a PID that is dynamic/changes.
- ATrue
- BFalse
46A Process P1 that is READY state will have a list of REGISTERS that is dynamic/changes.
- ATrue
- BFalse
47A low priority Minesweeper process CANNOT BE executed WITHOUT its own PCB.
- ATrue
- BFalse
48A high priority Windows Update process CANNOT BE executed WITHOUT its own PCB.
- ATrue
- BFalse
49chmod 714 which give which permissions?
- A-rwx-rx-rx
- B-rwx-rx-r
- C-rwx-x-r
- D-rx-x-x
50chmod 541 which give which permissions?
- A-rwx-r-r
- B-rx-r-x
- C-rx-rx-rx
- D-rwx-rwx-r
51chmod 644 which give which permissions?
- A-rw-r-r
- B-rx-rx-rx
- C-rx-r-x
- D-rwx-rwx-r
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