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Test your knowledge of operating system fundamentals including memory management, virtualization, process control, and system architecture

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following options is correct in the context of multiprogramming system?

  1. Are easier to develop than single programming systems
  2. Executes each job faster
  3. Executes more jobs in the same time period
  4. Uses only one large mainframe computer
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following runs on computer hardware and serves as a platform for other softwares to run on?

  1. Operating system
  2. Application software
  3. System software
  4. All of these
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following operating does not implement multitasking truly?

  1. Windows 98
  2. Windows NT
  3. Windows XP
  4. MS Dos
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following causes poor response time?

  1. Process busy
  2. High I/O rates
  3. High paging rates
  4. All of the above
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following options is correct in the context of page stealing?

  1. Is a sign of an efficient system.
  2. Is taking page frames from other working sets.
  3. Should be the tuning goal.
  4. Takes larger disk spaces for pages pegged out.
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the layer of a computer system between the hardware and the user program called?

  1. Operating environment
  2. Operating system
  3. System Environment
  4. None of these
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which software is built to communicate directly on the hardware?

  1. Environment
  2. System program
  3. Operating System
  4. None of these
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following transforms one interface into another interface?

  1. Program
  2. Software
  3. Data
  4. None of these
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following options shares characteristics with both hardware and software?

  1. Virtual space
  2. Virtual computers
  3. Virtual device
  4. None of these
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When a computer is first turned on or restarted, a special type of absolute loader called _________ is executed.

  1. compile and go loader
  2. boot loader
  3. bootstrap loader
  4. relating loader
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following programs is not a utility?

  1. Debugger
  2. Editor
  3. Spooler
  4. All of the above
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The primary purpose of an operating system is

  1. to make most efficient use of the computer hardware
  2. to allow people to use the computer
  3. to keep system programmers employed
  4. to make computer easier to use
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is the first program that runs on a computer when the computer boots up?

  1. System software
  2. Operating system
  3. System operations
  4. None of these
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following options is correct in the context of swapping?

  1. Works best with medium to large partitions
  2. Allows many portions of single program to use memory simultaneously
  3. Allows the overlaying of the programs
  4. All of the above
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The operating system creates which of the following options from the physical computer?

  1. Virtual space
  2. Virtual computers
  3. Virtual device
  4. None of these
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following operating systems will you choose to implement a client service network?

  1. MS Dos
  2. Windows 95
  3. Windows 98
  4. Windows 2000
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which among the following does the operating system manage?

  1. Memory
  2. Processes
  3. Disks and I/O devices
  4. All of the above
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