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operating system basic mcq

Total questions: 9

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
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.

To access the services of the operating system, the interface is provided by the (a)  

3.

The operating system is responsible for?

a)

bad-block recovery

b)

booting from disk

c)

disk initialization

d)

all of the mentioned

4.

Which of the following are CPU scheduling algorithms?

a)

Priority Scheduling

b)

Round Robin

c)

Shortest job first

d)

All of these

5.

Thread is a (a)   weight process.

6.

UNIX is written in which language?

a)

c#

b)

c

c)

c++

d)

html

7.

Which of the following is not an operating system?

a)

Windows

b)

Linux

c)

Oracle

d)

DOS

8.

When was the first operating system developed?

a)

1948

b)

1949

c)

1950

d)

1951

9.

Which of the following is a condition that causes deadlock?

a)

Mutual exclusion

b)

Hold and wait

c)

Circular wait

d)

No preemption

e)

All of these