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Quiz by Daniel Marshall, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Daniel Marshall
about 3 years ago
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Question 1
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What roles and functionality does an operating system provide?
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Hide hardware complexity from applications and developers
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Manages the underlying software
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Provides isolation and protection
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Guarantees applications can never access each others memory
Question 2
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Threads can only exist on the kernel level
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- True
- False
Question 3
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Which of the following are components of an operating system?
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Microsoft Word
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Device Driver
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Web Browser
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Kernel
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File System
Question 4
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An operating system abstracts and arbitrates the use of the computer system.
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- True
- False
Question 5
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Distributing memory between multiple processors is an example of abstraction.
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- True
- False
Question 6
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Supporting different types of speakers is an example of abstraction.
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- True
- False
Question 7
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What is an embedded operating system?
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A type of operating system that targets servers.
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A type of operating system that targets desktops.
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A type of operating system designed to be compact, efficient at resource usage, and reliable (such as for a smart phone/tablet).
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A type of operating system that targets mainframes.
Question 8
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Check all UNIX based operating systems below.
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Windows
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Mac OS X (BSD)
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Linux
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Android
Question 9
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Which of the following is an abstraction?
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Socket
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Create
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Schedule
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Write
Question 10
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Which of the following is a mechanism?
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Schedule
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Process
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File
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Thread
Question 11
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To achieve it's goals an operating system supports a number of higher level abstractions and then a key number of mechanisms that operate on top of these abstractions.
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- True
- False
Question 12
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Operating systems do not implement policies to determine how mechanisms will be used to manage the underlying hardware.
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- True
- False
Question 13
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The policy Least Recently Used (LRU) decides that the pages that have been least recently used over a period of time are the ones that are no longer used in physical memory but instead to be used on disk. This is also known as
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Swapping
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Switching
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Transferring
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Upkeep
Question 14
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What are some good guiding policies when designing an OS? Check all that apply
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Separation of mechanisms and policy
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Tight coupling of mechanisms and policy
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Optimize for edge cases
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Optimize for the common case
Question 15
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To achieve it's role of controlling and managing hardware resources on behalf of applications, the application must have special privileges. This is achieved by distinguishing between at least two modes of
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Kernal and User
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Kernal and Admin
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Admin and Master
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Privileged and Kernel
Question 16
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The operating system must operate in privileged kernel mode.
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- True
- False
Question 17
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User - Kernel switch is supported by which hardware?
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The CPU
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Motherboard
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RAM
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GPU
Question 18
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What is a trap instruction?
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When an application attempts to perform privileged operations in user mode
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An instruction that leads to buffer overflow
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Any instruction sent to the CPU when close to using max RAM
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Any instruction performed by incompatible hardware.
Question 19
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What happens when a trap instruction occurs?
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Control is switched to the OS at a specific location
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The OS checks to see what caused the trap to occur
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Grant access or perform terminate the process if the instruction was illegal.
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A system call
Question 20
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A system call is when the operating system gives privileged access to an application. Examples of this are open(file), send(socket), and malloc(memory).
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- True
- False
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