OS Module-1 Quiz

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

• A program in execution

• A static program

• A type of hardware

• A user interface

What are the states of a process as it executes?

• new, running, waiting, ready, terminated

• created, executing, paused, finished

• idle, active, completed, failed

• started, stopped, resumed, ended

What is the role of the long-term scheduler?

• Selects which processes should be brought into the ready queue

• Allocates CPU to processes

• Manages I/O operations

• Maintains process states

What is a context switch?

• Switching the CPU from one process to another

• Changing the state of a process

• Allocating memory to a process

• Creating a new process

What is interprocess communication (IPC)?

• Communication between processes

• Communication between users

• Communication between hardware components

• Communication between software applications

What is the producer-consumer problem?

• A paradigm for cooperating processes

• A method for process scheduling

• A type of interprocess communication

• A way to manage memory

_____ is not a OS services

• Accounting

• error detection

• system call

• I/O operations

PCB is

• Process type variable

• Data Structure

• A secondary storage section

• A block Memory

A Process waiting to be assigned to a processor is considered to be in _____ state

• waiting

• ready

• terminated

• running

Which of the following is advantage of threads

• Responsiveness

• Resource sharing

• Utilization of multiprocessor architecture

• All of these