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Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is the most used operating system in the world?
Linux
MacOS
Windows
Ubuntu
1. What is an operating system?
a) interface between the hardware and application programs
b) collection of programs that manages hardware resources
c) system service provider to the application programs
d) all of the mentioned
1. What is an operating system?
a) interface between the hardware and application programs
b) collection of programs that manages hardware resources
c) system service provider to the application programs
d) all of the mentioned
2. What is the main function of the command interpreter?
a) to provide the interface between the API and application program
b) to handle the files in the operating system
c) to get and execute the next user-specified command
d) none of the mentioned
3. To access the services of the operating system, the interface is provided by the ___________
a) Library
b) System calls
c) Assembly instructions
d) API
4. Where is the interrupt in operating system?
a) either low or high memory (depending on the location of interrupt vector)
b) in the low memory
c) in the high memory
d) none of the mentioned
5. Which one of the following is not a real time operating system?
a) RTLinux
b) Palm OS
c) QNX
d) VxWorks
6. In a timeshare operating system, when the time slot assigned to a process is completed, the process switches from the current state to?
a) Suspended state
b) Terminated state
c) Ready state
d) Blocked state
7. For an effective operating system, when to check for deadlock?
a) every time a resource request is made at fixed time intervals
b) at fixed time intervals
c) every time a resource request is made
d) none of the mentioned
8. To recover from failures in the network operations _____________ information may be maintained.
a) operating system
b) ip address
c) stateless
d) state
9 The two steps the operating system takes to use a disk to hold its files are _______ and ________
a) caching & logical formatting
b) logical formatting & swap space creation
c) swap space creation & caching
d) partitioning & logical formatting
10 In Unix, which system call creates the new process?
a) create
b) fork
c) new
d) none of the mentioned
1) What is the use of directory structure in the operating system?
The directory structure is used to solve the problem of the network connection in OS.
It is used to store folders and files hierarchically.
It is used to store the program in file format.
All of the these
What is a program?
a line of instruction
a list of instructions
a computer
Where does the taskbar appear by default?
on top of Windows Desktop
at the bottom of Windows Desktop
at the sides of Windows Desktop
What manages the hardware and runs the software?
Computer Systems
Dedicated Systems
Embedding Systems
Operating Systems
What is a good definition of software?
parts of a computer that are soft
Parts of a computer that you can't see
A set of rules that tell a computer what to do
games
Earlier computer systems utilized Command Line Interface to tell a computer what to do, which interface does the computer utilize now?
Command Line Interface
Touch User Interface
Natural Language Interface
Graphical User Interface
What is accessibility?
Changing how a system looks
Changing the brightness of the computer
Allowing as many people to access computers and technology
Changing the graphics and monitor to handle your screen
