Quiz4

In device-independent I/O software, what happens to characters that arrive while this page with the user buffer is being brought in from the disk?

• The buffer is full; there is no place to put them.

• The buffer is empty; there is no place to put them.

• The buffer is busy; there is no place to put them.

• The buffer is clear; there is no place to put them.

What types of operations is DMA useful for?

• Transfers to larger and older data between memory and I/O devices.

• Transfers large and vital data between memory and I/O devices.

• Transfers larger and older data between memory and I/O devices.

• Transfers small data between memory and older or memory and I/O devices.

What address are typically specified over DMA controllers for transmission?

• Logical memory

• Abstract memory

• Virtual memory

• Physical memory

A hardware interrupt occurs asynchronously. A hardware interrupt is caused in known place. A software interrupt is caused in known place. A software interrupt is caused after the completion of an instruction. The type of interrupt for which the processor polls the I/O device is known as:

• Synchronous interrupt

• Synchronous interrupt

• Supervised interrupt

• Precise interrupt

In Windows 98, which is the maximum partition size, else if FAT type is FAT 32 and the block size is 16 KB?

• 1 TB

• 2 TB

• 32 MB

• 128 MB

Which file access method is often used to optimize access to large files in a file system?

• Sequential access

• Direct access

• Indexed access

• Linked access

In file sharing, if there is no use of file locks by the sharing file system creates a new entry of type LINK, and checking that file, the directory entry is not created. Each link has the same inode number as the original file, and the contents of the file are not duplicated. If the original file is deleted, the link is removed and the file is deleted. Only the contents of the file are shared, not the file name or directory structure. Which of the following is correct about the type of file sharing described above?

• Synchronous Linking

• Symbolic Linking

• Traditional Hard Linking

• Synthetic Linking

When the computer is booted, what is used to read a root mini-executor?

• BIOS Boot Block

• GPT, BIOS

• MBR, MBR

• MBR, BIOS

When a directory has been read, it should be closed to free up internal table space that is ____.

• Clear

• Closed

• Classic

• Opened

In a file's metadata, what information does the file size typically represent?

• The physical size of the storage medium.

• The number of characters in the file.

• The number of pages in the file.

• The amount of space the file occupies on the storage medium.