OperatingSystemMCExercises20102011

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Contributors:RahmatM.SamikIbrahim(VauLSMorg),HeriKurniawan(FacultyofComputerScience,Universityof
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(2010101)
int ii = 0xdead;
int jj = 0xface;
ii + jj =
i. 0x1d97b
ii. 0x11101100101111011
iii. 0xdeadface
A)i

B)ii

C)iii

D)i,ii,andiii

E)none

D)i,ii,andiii

E)none

D)i,ii,andiii

E)none

(2010102)
Creatinganewthreadis:
i. muchfasterthencreatinganewprocess.
ii. muchslowerthencreatinganewprocess.
iii. asfastascreatinganewprocess.
A)i

B)ii

C)iii

(2010103)
ARoundRobinschedulingsystem:
i. withalargetimequantum/sliceislessresponsive.
ii. withalargetimequantum/sliceismoreresponsive.
iii. cannotbeanonpreemptivesystem.
A)iandii

B)iandiii

C)ii,andiii

(2010104)
Aspinlocksemaphore:
i. wastesCPUcycles
ii. isalsocalledabusywaitingsemaphore
iii. islessaccuratecomparedtotheblock/wakeupmethod.
A)iandii

B)iandiii

C)iiandiii

D)i,ii,andiii

E)none

(2010105)
DeadlockStrategy:
i. MostGeneralPurposeOperatingSystemsprovide"DeadlockPrevention"mechanism.
ii. MostGeneralPurposeOperatingSystemsprovide"DeadlockAvoidance"mechanism.
iii. MostGeneralPurposeOperatingSystemsprovide"Nothing"toavoidDeadlock.
A)i

B)ii

C)iii

D)i,ii,andiii

E)none

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(2010106)
Thepagefaultfrequencycanbereducedif:
i. mostprocessesareCPUbound
ii. enlargingthepagesize
iii. mostprocessesareI/Obound
A)i

B)ii

C)iii

D)i,ii,andiii

E)none

D)i,ii,andiii

E)none

(2010107)
ThehostusesInterruptstohandle:
i. busywaiting/pollingevents
ii. asynchronousevents
iii. bothmaskableandnonmaskableevents.
A)iandii

B)iandiii

C)iiandiii

(2010108)
AnOperatingSystemis:
i. aprogram
ii. anintermediarybetweentheusersandthehardwareofacomputer
iii. alicense
A)iandii

B)iandiii

C)ii,andiii

D)i,ii,andiii

E)none

D)i,ii,andiii

E)none

(2010109)
ASystemProgramsis:
i. partofthekernel
ii. alsocalledApplicationsPrograms
iii. alsocalledSystemCalls
A)i

B)ii

C)iii

(2010110)
TheVMwarefamily(eg.VMwarePlayer):
i. isaMINIXtool.
ii. runsasanapplicationontopofahostoperatingsystem
iii. doesnotrequirevirtualizationsupportfromthehostkernel
A)iandii

B)iandiii

C)iiandiii

D)i,ii,andiii

E)none

(2010111)
Forthefork()systemcall:
i. thereturncodeforthefork()ofchildprocessis0.
ii. thereturncodeforthefork()ofparentprocessis0.
iii. theprocessIDofthechildprocessis0.
A)i

B)ii

C)iii

D)i,ii,andiii

E)none

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(2010112)
ARealTimeSystemmayhavethesefollowingcharacteristic:
i. general/multipurpose
ii. largesize
iii. realnumberonly,nointeger
A)iandii

B)iandiii

C)iiandiii

D)i,ii,andiii

E)none

(2010113)
AMultimediaSystemmayhavethesefollowingcharacteristic:
i. largefiles
ii. sensitivetotimingdelay
iii. highdatarates
A)iandii

B)iandiii

C)iiandiii

D)i,ii,andiii

E)none

(2010114)
ADirectMemoryAccess(DMA)controller:
i. increasesI/Ointerrupts.
ii. reducesI/Ointerrupts.
iii. hasnothingtodowithI/Ointerrupts.
A)i

B)ii

C)iii

D)i,ii,andiii

E)none

(2010115)
InaMemoryMappedI/Osystem:
i. TheI/Oinstructionsarespecial
ii. AcertainmemoryaddressrangeisreservedfortheI/Ointerfaces.
iii. TheI/OusesthesameinstructionsastheMemoryReferences.
A)iandii

B)iandiii

C)ii,andiii

D)i,ii,andiii

E)none

(2010116)
Theresizeofadiskwith5doublesideplatters,5000cylinders,1024sectorspertrack,and1kBytespersectoris:
i. Morethan60Gbytes
ii. Morethan40Gbytes
iii. Morethan20Gbytes
A)iandii

B)iandiii

C)iiandiii

D)i,ii,andiii

E)none

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(2010117)
AnaddressgeneratedbytheCPUiscommonlyreferredtoas:
i. aregisteraddress
ii. alogicaladdress
iii. aphysicaladdress
A)i

B)ii

C)iii

D)i,ii,andiii

E)none

(2010118)
TheTranslationLookasideBuffer(TLB):
i. isasoftwarestrategyofapagetableimplementation
ii. isasmallfastlookupcache
iii. shouldhavetheentrysizeaslargeasthepagetablesize
A)i

B)ii

C)iii

D)i,ii,andiii

E)none

D)i,ii,andiii

E)none

(2010119)
Astrategytoloadpagesonlyasthereareneededisknownas:
i. sharedpaging
ii. swappaging
iii. demandpaging
A)i

B)ii

C)iii

(2010120)
TheSSTF(ShortestSeekTimeFirst)diskschedulingalgorithm,
i. maycausestarvationforsomerequest
ii. isthemostoptimalschedulingalgorithm
iii. selectstherequestwiththeleastseektimefromthecurrentheadposition.
A)iandii

B)iandiii

C)iiandiii

D)i,ii,andiii

E)none

(2010121)
Whenthediskarmmovesfromendtoend,servicingallrequestsinitspath,theschedulingmechanismisknownas:
i. SortestSeekTimeFirst(SSTF)
ii. SCAN
iii. LOOK
A)i

B)ii

C)iii

D)i,ii,andiii

E)none

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(2010122)
Thememorypagefaultfrequencycanbereducedif:
i. mostprocessesareCPUbound
ii. enlargingthepagesize
iii. mostprocessesareI/Obound
A)i
B)ii
C)iii

D)i,ii,andiii

E)none

(2011101)
Whichofthesefollowingstatementsaretrue?
i. Theoperatingsystemkernelconsistsofallsystemprogramandallapplicationprogramsinacomputer.
ii. Amicrokernelisakernelthatiscompressedbeforeloadinginordertoreduceitsresidentmemorysize
iii. Systemcallscanbeexecutedineitherusermodeorkernelmode.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011102)
Inasharedmemorysystem,
i. theresponsibilityforprovidingcommunicationrestswiththeoperatingsystem.
ii. theoperatingsystemneedstoprovidethesharedmemory.
iii. sharedmemoryallowsmaximumspeedandconvenienceofcommunication

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011103)
Whichofthesefollowingstatementsaretrue?
i. Commandinterpreterallowsuserstodirectlyentercommandstobeperformedbytheoperatingsystem.
ii. Systemcallsallowsarunningprogramtomakerequestsfromtheoperatingsystemdirectly.
iii. Systemprogramsareprovidestosatisfymanycommonuserrequests.Someofthemaresimplyuserinterfacestosystemcalls.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011104)
Whichofthesefollowingstatementsaretrue?
i. Inmultiplecoreenvironment,anOperatingSystemcantransformasinglethreadedprocesstobecomeamultiplethreadedprocess.
ii. Adualcoreprocessorcanexecutemaximumonlytwothreadsinthesametime.
iii. Threadsdonotshareitsregistersandstack.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011105)
Whichofthesefollowingstatementsaretrue?
i. TheschedulingofuserthreadsisdecidedbyOperatingSystems.
ii. Someschedulingalgorithmsmayleadsomeprocessestofacestarvationwhereprocesseshavetowaitandgetservedagainwithinaspecifiedtime.
iii. TodaymanyOperatingSystemsuseburstbasedschedulingalgorithmthatcandetermineexactlythebursttimeofincomingprocesses.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011106)
Whichofthesefollowingstatementsaretrue?
i.

Acooperatingprocessisonethatcanaffectotherprocessesexecutinginthesystem.
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ii. Acooperatingprocessisonethatcanbeaffectedbyotherprocessesexecutinginthesystem.
iii. Cooperatingprocessescaneitherdirectlyorindirectlysharealogicaladdressspace.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011107)
Whichofthesefollowingstatementsaretrue?
i. Itispossibletohaveadeadlockinvolvingonlyasingleprocesswithmultiplethreads.
ii. Itisimpossibletohaveadeadlockinvolvingonlyasingleprocesswithasinglethread.
iii. Itispossibletohaveadeadlockinvolvingonlyasingleresourcewithasingleinstance.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011108)
Whichofthesefollowingstatementsaretrue?
i. Asystemwithfixedsizedmemoryallocationunitsmaysufferfromexternalfragmentation.
ii. Neitherfirstfitnorbestfitstrategiesformemoryallocationsufferfromexternalfragmentation.
iii. Externalfragmentationoccursbecausethememoryallocatedtoaprocessislargerthantherequestedmemory.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011109)
i. Mostmemorymanagementalgorithmrequirehardwaresupport.
ii. AnaddressgeneratedbytheCPUiscommonlyreferredtoasaphysicaladdress.
iii. AmemorymanagementUnit(MMU)isahardwaredevicethatmapsvirtualaddressestophysicaladdresses.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011110)
i. VirtualMemoryisatechniquethatallowstheexecutionofprocessesthatarenotcompletelyinmemory.
ii. VirtualMemoryallowsprocessestosharefileseasily.
iii. VirtualMemorycandecreaseCPUutilizationandthroughput.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011111)
i. Moderncomputersystemsusesdisksastheprimaryonlinestoragemedium.
ii. AFileSystemresidespermanentlyonsecondarystorage.
iii. AVirtualFileSystemseparatestheFileSystemgenericoperationsfromtheirimplementation.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011112)
i. Afileisanabstractdatatypedefinedandimplementedbyuser.
ii. Afilehasacertaindefinedstructure,whichdependsonitstype.
iii. Afileisasequenceoflogicalrecords.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

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Datatransferrateofreading/writingthemagneticdiskisalwaysslowercomparedtotransferrateofdeliveringthedata
to/fromtheoperatingsystem.
ii. Adiskcanbeslicedintomultiplepartitions,oravolumecanspanmultiplepartitionsonmultipledisks.
iii. Eachpartitioncanbeeithercontainingnofilesystem,orcontainingafilesystem.
i.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011114)
i. Abufferisamemoryareathatstoresdatabeingtransferredbetweenadeviceandanapplication.
ii. Acacheisaregionoffastmemorythatholdscopiesofdata.
iii. Aspoolisabufferthatholdsoutputforadevice.
A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011201)
i. AnOperatingSystemisasoftwarethatmanagesthecomputerhardware.
ii. AnOperatingSystemisbothsoftwareandhardwarethatmanagessoftwareapplications.
iii. AnOperatingSystemprovidesanenvironmentforsoftwareapplicationstorun.
A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011202)
i. TheMicrosoftPublicLicenseisafreesoftwarelicense.
ii. TheGNUGeneralPublicLicense(GPL)isafreesoftwarelicense
iii. TheCreativeCommonsAttribution2.0license(a.k.a.CCBY)isfreelicensethatisgoodforartandentertainmentworks.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011203)
i. Nowadays,OperatingSystemsareusuallywritteninalowlevellanguagelikeassembler.
ii. TheIBMOS/360waswritteninClanguage.
iii. Inthepast,OperatingSystemswereusuallywritteninFortranIV.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011204)
i. Aprogramisaprocessinexecution.
ii. TherearetwomajorclassesofqueuesinanOperatingSystem:I/ORequestqueueandtheReadyQueue
iii. EachprocessisrepresentedontheOperatingSystembyitsownPCB(ProcessControlBlock).

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011205)
i. Userlevelthreadsarethreadsthatarevisibletotheprogrammer.
ii. Userlevelthreadsareunknowntothekernel.
iii. Userlevelthreads,ingeneral,areslowertocreate.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011206)
i.

TheFCFS(FirstComeFirstServed)schedulingalgorithmisnonpreemptive.

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ii. TheRR(RoundRobin)schedulingalgorithmisnonpreemptive.
iii. TheSJF(ShortestJobFirst)schedulingalgorithmcanbebothnonpreemptiveorpreemptive.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011207)
i. ARaceConditioniswheretheoutcomeofexecutionsdependsontheorderofaccessing/modifyingtheshareddata.
ii. ACriticalSectionisasegmentofcodewheretheprocesscrashes.
iii. ThePeterson'ssolutionrequirestheprocessestosharetwodataitems:aturnintegerandtwobooleanflags.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011208)
i. AfteraUNIXforkoperation,theparentandnewchildprocessareidenticalinallrespects.
ii. Intheoperatingsystemenvironmentswithnovirtualmemory,theoperatingsystemhastoworryaboutdeadlockoccurringinvolvingphysicalmemory
asaresource.
iii. Amicrokernelstyleoperatingsystemusesmultipleaddressspacesinsidetheoperatingsystemwithcomponentssuchasthefilesystem,network
stack,anddevicedriversallrunningatuserlevel.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011209)
i. Theinterruptcontrollercanonlybemodifiedinusermode.
ii. Kernelmemoryisnotavailabletousersinusermode.
iii. Modificationstothepagetablesareonlypossibleinkernelmode.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011210)
i. Processesonthesameprocessorcancommunicatewithoneanotherby"MemorySharing".
ii. Processesonthesameprocessorcancommunicatewithoneanotherby"Messagepassing"
iii. Processesonthesameprocessorcancommunicatewithoneanotherby"FileSystemSharing"

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011211)
i. Aninodeisafilesystem.
ii. Thesmallestaddressablepieceofdataonadiskdriveissector.
iii. AFileisapersistent,namedcollectionofdata.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011212)
Considerademandpagingsystem,whereadedicateddiskisusedforpaging,andfilesystemactivityusesotherdisks.Themeasured
utilizationsofthevarioussystemcomponents,intermsoftime,notspace,areasfollows:[CPUutilization:20%;Paging(dedicated)disk:99.7%;
OtherI/Odevices:5%]
i. GetalargercapacitypagingdiskwillhaveCPUutilizationeffect.
ii. Increasethedegreeofmultiprogrammingwillmaketheproblemworse,i.e.decreasestheCPUutilization.
iii. Providingmorephysicalmemorywillreducetheamountofpaging,i.e.increasestheCPUutilization.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

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(2011213)
Afilesystemwithawritebehind(delay)policy:
i. Delayingwritesallowsmultiplesmallwritestobebatchedtogetherintoalarger,moreefficientlargewrite(alsoimprovesallocation).
ii. Temporaryfilesthatarecreated,read,thendeletedmayneverbewrittentodisk
iii. Acrashwillonlycauseadelaywithnolostofdata.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011214)
i. Hyperthreadingisatermusedtodescribesystemswiththousandsofthreads.
ii. Therateofpagefaultsinavirtualmemorysystemcanalwaysbereducedbyaddingmorememory.
iii. DoublingtheblocksizeintheLinuxext2filesystemwillexactlydoublethemaximumfilesize.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011215)
i. Protectionisanexternalproblem.
ii. Securityisaninternalonlyproblem.
iii. Multifactorauthenticationincreasesthechanceofauthenticationforgery.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011216)
i.

Portscanningtypicallyisautomatedusingasoftwaretool.

ii. DenialofService(DOS)attacksareaimedforcollectinginformation.
iii. DistributedDOSaremoredifficulttopreventthanDOS.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011217)
i. Acomputersystemisacollectionofprocessesandobjects.
ii. Aprocessisaprograminexecution.
iii. Therearebothhardwareobjects(e.g.CPU,memory,etc.)andsoftwareobjects(files,programs,etc.).

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011218)
i.

Fordiskswithconstantarealbitdensity(bitsstored/unitareaofdiskmedia),thediskheadreadsbitsatadifferentrateontheoutertracksthanonthe
innertracks.
ii. Inamodernoperatingsystemusingmemoryprotectionthroughvirtualmemory,thehardwareregistersofamemorymappedI/Odevicecanonlybe
accessedbythekernel.
iii. WiththeNFSdistributedfilesystem,itispossibleforoneclienttowriteavalueintoafilethatisnotseenbyanotherclientwhenreadingthatfile.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011219)
i. MostModernOperatingSystemssupportmultipagesize.
ii. Increasingthesizeofapagewillincreasethesizeofthepagetable.
iii. Adatabaseapplicationcantakeperformanceadvantagewithaverylargepagesize.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011220)
i. TheVFSlayerhandlesjournalingforVeryLargeFileSystems.
ii. SeveralimplementationfortheVFSmaycoexistonthesamemachine.
iii. TheVFSdistinguishlocalfilesfromremoteones.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

(2011221)
i.

HostattachedStorage(HAS)isastorageaccessedthroughlocalI/Oports.

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ii. ANetworkattachedStorage(NAS)deviceisaspecialpurposestoragesystemthatisaccessedremotelyoveradatanetwork.
iii. AStorageareaNetwork(SAN)isaprivatenetworkconnectingserversandstorageunits.

A)iandiiB)iandiiiC)iiandiiiD)i,ii,andiiiE)none

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