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WorksheetsOS-Module 1
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
1. What is operating system?
a) collection of programs that manages hardware resources
b) system service provider to the application programs
c) link to interface the hardware and application programs
d) all of the mentioned
2. To access the services of operating system, the interface is provided by the ___________
a) System calls
b) API
c) Library
d) Assembly instructions
3. Which one of the following is not true?
a) kernel is the program that constitutes the central core of the operating system
b) kernel is the first part of operating system to load into memory during booting
c) kernel is made of various modules which can not be loaded in running operating system
d) kernel remains in the memory during the entire computer session
4) Process is_______________
a) program in High level language kept on disk
b) contents of main memory
c) a program in execution
d) a job in secondary memory
5) _______ is the first program run on a
computer when the computer boots up.
System software
Operating system
System operations
None
6) _______ is a job of Kernel
a) Resource allocation
b) Memory allocation
c) Task allocation
d) All of the above
7) Logical extension of multiprogramming of operating system is
time sharing
multi tasking
single programing
both a and b
8) The Hardware mechanism that enables a device to notify the CPU is called __________.
a) Polling
b) Interrupt
c) System Call
d) None of the above
9) Unix Operating System is an __________.
a) Time Sharing Operating System
b) Multi-User Operating System
c) Multi-tasking Operating System
d)
All the Above
10) In Unix, Which system call creates the new process?
a) fork
b) create
c) new
d) none of the mentioned
