OS QUIZ

A ____________ is a basic unit of CPU utilization; it comprises a thread ID, a program counter, a register set, and a stack.

• Thread

• Code

• Text

• Secion

One of the CPU scheduling criteria is _________________, which indicates the amount of time it takes from when a request was submitted until the first response is produced not output.

• Waiting time

• Throughput

• Response time

• Turnaround time

One of the components of process segment is ___________, which contains program code and it is typically read only and it may be shared by a number of processes.

• Text Section

• Data Section

• Stack

• Heap

The ___________ is a memory area that is used for dynamic memory allocation during the runtime of a program.

• Stack

• Heap

• Data Section

• Text Section

Long-term scheduler or Job scheduler selects which process should be executed next and allocates CPU.

• True

• False

• Maybe

In multicore programing, _____________ distributes subsets of the same data across multiple cores, same operation on each.

• Data parallelism

• Data splitting

• Task parallelism

• Data dependency

The one-to-one model maps each user thread to a kernel thread. It also allows multiple threads to run in parallel on multiprocessors.

• True

• False

• Maybe

A program is a passive entity such as the file that contains the list of instructions stored on a disk always referred to as an executable file.

• True

• False

• Maybe

The ___________ is the time taken to execute a process from the submission to its completion.

• Response time

• Turnaround time

• Waiting time

• Service time

Dispatch latency is the time it takes for the dispatcher to stop one process and start another running.

• True

• False

• Maybr