Operating System Concepts Quiz

Kernel threads cannot be supported and managed directly by the operating system.

• cannot be supported and managed directly by the operating system

• can be supported and managed directly by the operating system

• are supported below the kernel and are managed without kernel support

• None of the above

Light weight process is called ___________

• thread

• tiny process

• small process

• stack

What is a process in the context of an operating system?

• A program in execution

• A system call

• A database transaction

• A thread of execution

Which of the following is a type of process scheduling algorithm?

• FIFO

• Round Robin

• Priority Scheduling

• All of the above

In which state does a process wait for an event to occur?

• Running

• Ready

• Waiting (or Blocked)

• Terminated

Which of the following is NOT a valid state of a process?

• New

• Running

• Paging

• Ready

Which of the following is a classic problem of synchronization?

• Producer-Consumer Problem

• Dining Philosophers Problem

• Readers-Writers Problem

• All of the above

What is the purpose of a process control block (PCB)?

• To control the sequence of operations in a process

• To store information about a process

• To manage memory allocation for a process

• To handle I/O operations for a process

Which of the following is used to protect critical sections in process synchronization?

• Semaphore

• Interrupt

• Signal

• Pipe

In which of the following scenarios can deadlock occur?

• Mutual exclusion

• Hold and wait

• Circular wait

• All of the above