operating system basic mcq

What is an operating system?

• interface between the hardware and application programs

• collection of programs that manages hardware resources

• system service provider to the application programs

• all of the mentioned

To access the services of the operating system, the interface is provided by the ___________

The operating system is responsible for?

• bad-block recovery

• booting from disk

• disk initialization

• all of the mentioned

Which of the following are CPU scheduling algorithms?

• Priority Scheduling

• Round Robin

• Shortest job first

• All of these

Thread is a..................weight process.

UNIX is written in which language?

• c#

• c

• c++

• html

Which of the following is not an operating system?

• Windows

• Linux

• Oracle

• DOS

When was the first operating system developed?

• 1948

• 1949

• 1950

• 1951

Which of the following is a condition that causes deadlock?

• Mutual exclusion

• Hold and wait

• Circular wait

• No preemption

• All of these