Home / Computer Science / Operating System :: section-7

Computer Science :: Operating System

  1. The term "operating system" means

  2. A.

     a set of programs which controls computer working

    B.

     the way a computer operator works

    C.

     conversion of high level language into machine code

    D.

     the way a floppy disk drive operates

    E.

     None of the above

    View Answer

    Workspace

    Discuss Discuss in Forum


  3. Which of the following might be used to convert high-level language instructions into machine language?

  4. A.

     system software

    B.

     applications software

    C.

     an operating environment

    D.

     an interpreter

    E.

     None of the above

    View Answer

    Workspace

    Discuss Discuss in Forum


  5. Indicate which is a pre-emptive scheduling algorithm

  6. A.

     Round-robin

    B.

     Shortest-job-next

    C.

     Priority-based

    D.

     All of the above

    E.

     None of the above

    View Answer

    Workspace

    Discuss Discuss in Forum


  7. Which of the following, is necessary to work on a computer

  8. A.

     Compiler

    B.

     Operating system

    C.

     Assembly

    D.

     Interpreter of the above

    E.

     None of the above

    View Answer

    Workspace

    Discuss Discuss in Forum


  9. Access time is the highest in the case of

  10. A.

     floppy disk

    B.

     cache

    C.

     swapping devices

    D.

     magnetic disk

    E.

     None of the above

    View Answer

    Workspace

    Discuss Discuss in Forum


  11. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a daisy chaining priority control scheme?

  12. A.

     priority is programmable

    B.

     it is relatively easy to add more devices to the chain

    C.

     the failure of one device may affect other devices on the chain

    D.

     the number of control lines is independent of the number of devices on the chain

    E.

     None of the above

    View Answer

    Workspace

    Discuss Discuss in Forum


  13. Assembler is

  14. A.

     a program that places programs into memory and prepares them for execution.

    B.

     a program that automate the translation of assembly language into machine language.

    C.

     a program that accepts a program written in a high level language and produces an object program.

    D.

     is a program that appears to execute a source program as if it were machine language.

    E.

     None of the above

    View Answer

    Workspace

    Discuss Discuss in Forum


  15. Indicate which, of the following, in not true about an interpreter

  16. A.

     Interpreter generates an object program from the source program

    B.

     Interpreter is a kind of translator

    C.

     Interpreter analyses each source statement every time it is to be executed

    D.

     All of the above

    E.

     None of the above

    View Answer

    Workspace

    Discuss Discuss in Forum


  17. Object modules generated by assemblers that contain unresolved external references are resolved for two or more object modules by a/an

  18. A.

     operating system

    B.

     loader

    C.

     linker

    D.

     compiler

    E.

     None of the above

    View Answer

    Workspace

    Discuss Discuss in Forum


  19. The advantage of a command processor running only built-in commands is:

  20. A.

     flexibility to the users in running lists of commands by simply collecting them in named batch command files

    B.

     the command set being common across different hardware configurations

    C.

     users can create system programs and run them as commands

    D.

     the processing is much faster than would other-wise be the case when user defined commands are used

    E.

     None of the above

    View Answer

    Workspace

    Discuss Discuss in Forum