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WorksheetsOperating Systems
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 31mins
What do device drivers do?
Allows the OS to communicate with hardware
Drives around the motherboard
Increases the amount of storage
What type of operating system is Windows 10?
Single-user OS
Multi-user OS
The program in our operating system always deals with what address?
logical address
virtual address
both
neither
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Windows
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To access the services of operating system, the interface is provided by the ___________
System calls
API
Library
Assembly instructions
The primary purpose of an operating system is:
To make the most efficient use of the computer hardware
To allow people to use the computer,
To keep systems programmers employed
To make computers easier to use
The strategy of allowing processes that are logically runnable to be temporarily suspended is called
preemptive scheduling
non preemptive scheduling
shortest job first
first come first served
Semaphores are used to solve
Deadlock
Mutual exclusion
Inter-process Communication
Messaging
Only the process executing the critical section is allowed access to the shared variable,all other processes should prevented from doing so until the completion of the critical section. This is often referred to as-
Mutual exclusion
semaphores
Deadlock
Interprocess communication
Banker’s algorithm is used as-
Deadlock occurrence method
Deadlock avoidance method
Deadlock detection method
Deadlock recovery method
The ability for a computer to execute more than one task simultaneously
multitasking
multiprogramming
multiprocessing
timesharing
The operating system is a type of
system software
general purpose software
utility software
application software
Which is not a process state?
waiting
terminated
blocked
redirected
A signal sent by a hardware or software to CPU indicating that something needs attention
disturbance
interrupt
waiting
exclusion
FCFS is operates similar to a
stack
sorting algorithm
circle
queue
