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A_____providesafilesysteminterfacewhichallowsclientstocreateand
modifyfiles.
fileserversystem
Themostcommonsecondarystoragedeviceis____.
magneticdisk
A____canbeusedtopreventauserprogramfromneverreturningcontrol
timer
totheoperatingsystem.Answer
____operatingsystemsaredesignedprimarilytomaximizeresource
utilization.
Mainframe
Whichofthefollowingstatementsconcerningopensourceoperating
systemsistrue?
Sourcecodeisfreelyavailable.
Adualcoresystemrequireseachcorehasitsowncachememory.
False
Asystemcallistriggeredbyhardware.
False
Interruptsmaybetriggeredbyeitherhardwareofsoftware.
True
VirtuallyallmodernoperatingsystemsprovidesupportforSMP.
True
Embeddedcomputerstypicallyrunona____operatingsystem.
realtime
Whichofthefollowingwouldleadyoutobelievethatagivensystemisan
SMPtypesystem?
Eachprocessorperformsalltaskswithintheoperatingsystem.
FlashmemoryisslowerthanDRAMbutneedsnopowertoretainits
contents.
True
A____isacustombuildoftheLinuxoperatingsystem
distribution
Inwhatwayisanoperatingsystemlikeagovernment?
Itcreatesanenvironmentwithinwhichotherprogramscandouseful
work.
Whichofthefollowingoperatingsystemsisnotopensource?
WindowsXP
Whichofthefollowingisapropertyofpeertopeersystems?
Clientsandserversarenotdistinguishedfromoneanother.
Processorsformosthandhelddevicesrunatafractionofthespeedofa
processorinaPC.
True
Theoperatingsystemkernelconsistsofallsystemandapplication
programsinacomputer.
False
Amicrokernelisakernel____.
thatisstrippedofallnonessentialcomponents
Policy____.
determineswhatwillbedone
TotheSYSGENprogramofanoperatingsystem,theleastusefulpieceof
informationis_____.
whatapplicationstoinstall
Ifaprogramterminatesabnormally,adumpofmemorymaybeexamined
bya____todeterminethecauseoftheproblem.
debugger
Amessagepassingmodelis____.
easiertoimplementthanasharedmemorymodelforintercomputer
communication
Theclose()systemcallinUNIXisusedtocloseafile.Whatisthe
equivalentsystemcallinWindows:
CloseHandle()
Systemcallscanberunineitherusermodeorkernelmode.
False
Aninitialbootstrapprogramisintheformofrandomaccessmemory
(RAM).
False
KDEandGNOMEdesktopsareavailableunderopensourcelicenses.
True
Ingeneral,Windowssystemcallshavelonger,moredescriptivenamesand
True
UNIXsystemcallsuseshorter,lessdescriptivenames.
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_____isnotanexampleofabenefitofvirtualmachines.
Useslessphysicalmemorythananactualoperatingsystem
A_____isanexampleofasystemsprogram.
FilemanagementStatusInformationFilemodification
programminglanguagesupportProgramloadingandexecution
communication
Inavirtualmachine,eachprogrambelievesthatithas____.
itsownmemory
Aprogramwrittenforthe.NETFrameworkneednotworryaboutthe
specificsofthehardwareortheoperatingsystemonwhichitwillrun.
True
ManyoperatingsystemsmergeI/Odevicesandfilesintoacombinedfile
becauseofthesimilarityofsystemcalleach
True
Bluetoothand802.11devicesusewirelesstechnologytocommunicate
overseveralfeet,inessencecreatinga____.
smallareanetwork
Twoimportantdesignissuesforcachememoryare____.
sizeandreplacementpolicy
_____allowoperatingsystemservicestobeloadeddynamically.
Modules
Microkernelsuse_____forcommunication.
MessagePassing
___isapopularcommercialapplicationthatabstractsIntel80XXx86
hardwareintoisolatedvirtualmachines.
WMware
Whichofthefollowingstatementsisincorrect?
Operatingsystemsprovidebothcommandlineaswellasgraphical
userinterfaces.
Somelevelofhardwaresupportisrequiredtoprovidevirtualization.
True
AprocessmaytransitiontotheReadystatebywhichofthefollowing
actions?
CompletionofanI/OeventAwaitingitsturnontheCPUNewly
admittedprocessAlloftheabove
Whichofthefollowingstatementsistrue?
ReadingandwritingtoordinarypipesonbothUNIXandWindows
systemscanbeperformedlikeordinaryfileI/O.
Whenachildprocessiscreated,whichofthefollowingisapossibilityin
termsoftheexecutionoraddressspaceofthechildprocess?
Thechildprocessrunsconcurrentlywiththeparent.Thechild
processhasanewprogramloadedintoit.Thechildisaduplicateof
theparent.Alloftheabove
A(n)______________allowsseveralunrelatedprocessestousethepipe
forcommunication.
namedpipe
Ablockingsend()andblockingreceive()isknownasa(n)
_________________
rendezvous
The____ofaprocesscontainstemporarydatasuchasfunction
parameters,returnaddresses,andlocalvariables.
stack
AsocketisidentifiedbyanIPaddressconcatenatedwithaportnumber.
True
OrdinarypipesinWindowsrequireaparentchildrelationshipbetweenthe
communicatingprocesses.
True
Forasingleprocessorsystem,therewillneverbemorethanoneprocess
intheRunningstate.
True
Usingasectionobjecttopassmessagesoveraconnectionportavoids
datacopying.
True
A_____________savesthestateofthecurrentlyrunningprocessand
restoresthestateofthenextprocesstorun.
contextswitch
ReadingandwritingtoordinarypipesonbothUNIXandWindowssystems
canbeperformedlikeordinaryfileI/O.
True
ChildprocessesinheritUNIXordinarypipesfromtheirparentprocess
because:
Pipesareaspecialtypeoffile
Whichofthefollowingstatementsistrue?
Sharedmemoryistypicallyfasterthanmessagepassing.
Whenachildprocessiscreated,whichofthefollowingisapossibilityin
termsoftheexecutionoraddressspaceofthechildprocess?
Alloftheabove
Namedpipescontinuetoexistinthesystemafterthecreatingprocesshas
terminated.
True
Usingasectionobjecttopassmessagesoveraconnectionportavoids
datacopying.
True
Socketsareconsideredahighlevelcommunicationsscheme.
False
AllaccesstoPOSIXsharedmemoryrequiresasystemcall.
False
ThelistofprocesseswaitingforaparticularI/Odeviceiscalleda(n)____.
devicequeue
ImaginethatahostwithIPaddress150.55.66.77wishestodownloadafile
fromthewebserveratIPaddress202.28.15.123.Selectavalidsocketpair 150.55.66.77:2000and202.28.15.123:80
foraconnectionbetweenthispairofhosts.
WhichofthefollowingistrueinaMachoperatingsystem?
Allmessageshavethesamepriority.
Whencommunicatingwithsockets,aclientprocessinitiatesarequestfora
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connectionandisassignedaportbythehostcomputer.Whichofthe
followingwouldbeavalidportassignmentforthehostcomputer?
1625
The_____________referstothenumberofprocessesinmemory.
degreeofmultiprogramming
LocalProcedureCallsinWindowsXParesimilartoRemoteProcedure
Calls.
True
Thedifferencebetweenaprogramandaprocessisthataprogramisan
activeentitywhileaprocessisapassiveentity.
False
WhatisthenumericpriorityofaWindowsXPthreadinthe
BELOW_NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASSwithNORMALrelativepriority?
With_______athreadexecutesonaprocessoruntilalonglatencyevent
(i.e.amemorystall)occurs.
coarsegrainedmultithreading
Asignificantproblemwithpriorityschedulingalgorithmsis_____.
starvation
____isthenumberofprocessesthatarecompletedpertimeunit.
Throughput
InSolaris,ifaninteractivethreadwithpriority15usesitsentiretime
quantum,whatisitspriorityrecalculatedto?
ThedefaultschedulingclassforaprocessinSolarisis____.
timesharing
Loadbalancingistypicallyonlynecessaryonsystemswithacommonrun
queue.
False
SMPsystemsthatusemulticoreprocessorstypicallyrunfasterthanSMP
systemsthatplaceeachprocessoronseparatecores.
True
Solaris,WindowsXP,andLinuxassignhigherprioritythreads/taskslonger
timequantumsandlowerprioritytasksshortertimequantums.
False
Inpreemptivescheduling,thesectionsofcodeaffectedbyinterruptsmust
beguardedfromsimultaneoususe.
True
HIGH_PRIORITY_CLASSwithABOVE_NORMALrelativepriority?
14
NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASSwithHIGHESTrelativepriority?
10
InLittle'sformulan=xW,whatdoesWrepresent?
averagewaitingtimeinthequeue
InSolaris,whatisthetimequantum(inmilliseconds)ofaninteractive
threadwithpriority35?
80
ASolarisinteractivethreadwithatimequantumof80hasahigherpriority
thananinteractivethreadwithatimequantumof120.
True
Systemsusingaonetoonemodel(suchasWindowsXP,Solaris9,and
Linux)schedulethreadsusingprocesscontentionscope(PCS).
False
Amulticoresystemallowstwo(ormore)threadsthatareincomputecycles
True
toexecuteatthesametime.
____schedulingisapproximatedbypredictingthenextCPUburstwithan
exponentialaverageofthemeasuredlengthsofpreviousCPUbursts.
SJF
______allowsathreadtorunononlyoneprocessor.
Processoraffinity
InLittle'sformulan=xW,whatdoesrepresent?
averagearrivalratefornewprocessesinthequeue
14
InSolaris,ifaninteractivethreadwithpriority25iswaitingforI/O,whatis
itspriorityrecalculatedtowhenitiseligibletorunagain?
52
InRRscheduling,thetimequantumshouldbesmallwithrespecttothe
contextswitchtime.
False
Loadbalancingalgorithmshavenoimpactonthebenefitsofprocessor
affinity.
False
VirtualizationdoesnotallowasingleCPUsystemtoappearasa
multiprocessorsystem.
False
InLinux,tasksthatarenotrealtimehavedynamicprioritiesthatarebased
nice
ontheir____valuesplusorminusthevalue5.
InLittle'sformulan=xW,whatdoesnrepresent?
averagequeuelength
14
nSolaris,ifaninteractivethreadwithpriority15usesitsentiretime
quantum,whatisitspriorityrecalculatedto?
InSolaris,whatisthetimequantum(inmilliseconds)ofaninteractive
threadwithpriority35?
80
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The_____modelmapsmanyuserlevelthreadstoonekernelthread.
manytoone
A_____usesanexistingthreadratherthancreatinganewoneto
completeatask.
threadpool
Inmultithreadedprograms,thekernelinformsanapplicationaboutcertain
eventsusingaprocedureknownasa(n)____.
upcall
A____providesanAPIforcreatingandmanagingthreads.
threadlibrary
Whichofthefollowingstatementsregardingthreadsisfalse?
SharingisautomaticallyprovidedinJavathreads.
Deferredcancellationispreferredoverasynchronouscancellation.
True
Eachthreadhasitsownregistersetandstack.
True
Virtuallyallcontemporaryoperatingsystemssupportkernelthreads.
True
AthreadiscomposedofathreadID,programcounter,registerset,and
heap.
False
The____multithreadingmodelmultiplexesmanyuserlevelthreadstoa
smallerorequalnumberofkernelthreads.
manytomanymodel
InPthreads,aparentusesthepthread_join()functiontowaitforitschild
threadtocomplete.WhatistheequivalentfunctioninWin32?
WaitForSingleObject()
ThemostcommontechniqueforwritingmultithreadedJavaprogramsis
_____.
implementingtheRunnableinterfaceanddefiningitsrun()method
Signalscanbeemulatedinwindowsthrough____.
asynchronousprocedurecalls
Threadspecificdataisdatathat____.
iscopiedandnotsharedwiththeparentprocess
Virtuallyallcontemporaryoperatingsystemssupportkernelthreads.
True
Linuxdistinguishesbetweenprocessesandthreads.
False
Whichofthefollowingwouldbeanacceptablesignalhandlingschemefor
amultithreadedprogram?
DeliverthesignaltothethreadtowhichthesignalappliesDeliver
thesignaltoeverythreadintheprocessDeliverthesignalto
certainthreadsintheprocessAssignaspecificthreadtoreceive
allsignalsfortheprocess
Monitorsareatheoreticalconceptandarenotpracticedinmodern
programminglanguages
False
Adeadlockfreesolutioneliminatesthepossibilityofstarvation.
False
Mutexlocksandbinarysemaphoresareessentiallythesamething.
True
Ascheduleinwhicheachtransactionisexecutedatomicallyiscalleda(n)
____.
serialschedule
Asemaphore____.
isessentiallyanintegervariable
Aracecondition____.
resultswhenseveralthreadstrytoaccessandmodifythesame
dataconcurrently
_____isnotatechniqueforhandlingcriticalsectionsinoperatingsystems
onmodernarchitctures
Peterson'ssolution
Atransaction_____.
performsasinglelogicalfunction
A(n)_______referstowhereaprocessisaccessing/updatingshareddata
criticalsection
Raceconditionsarepreventedbyrequiringthatcriticalregionsbe
protectedbylocks
true
Athreadwillimmediatelyacquireadispatcherlockthatisthesignalstate
True
UNIXdoesnotallowuserstoescalateprivilegestogainextrapermissions
forarestrictedactivity.
False
Aclusteredsystem____.
gatherstogethermultipleCPUstoaccomplishcomputationalwork
_____provide(s)aninterfacetotheservicesprovidedbyanoperating
system.
Systemcalls
Themajordifficultyindesigningalayeredoperatingsystemapproachis
____.
appropriatelydefiningthevariouslayers
ApplicationprogrammerstypicallyuseanAPIratherthandirectoryinvoking
True
systemcalls.
Somelevelofhardwaresupportisrequiredtoprovidevirtualization.
True
Ablockingsend()andblockingreceive()isknownasa(n)
_________________
rendezvous
OrdinarypipesinUNIXrequireaparentchildrelationshipbetweenthe
True
TheMachoperatingsystemtreatssystemcallswithmessagepassing.
True
ThelistofprocesseswaitingforaparticularI/Odeviceiscalleda(n)____.
devicequeue
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OrdinarypipesinWindowsrequireaparentchildrelationshipbetweenthe
true
Ina(n)____temporaryqueue,thesendermustalwaysblockuntilthe
recipientreceivesthemessage.
zerocapacity
Whichofthefollowingwouldbeanacceptablesignalhandlingschemefor
amultithreadedprogram?
Deliverthesignaltothethreadtowhichthesignalapplies.Deliver
thesignaltoeverythreadintheprocess.Deliverthesignaltoonly
certainthreadsintheprocess.
nmultithreadedprograms,thekernelinformsanapplicationaboutcertain
eventsusingaprocedureknownasa(n)____.
upcall
The_____modelallowsauserlevelthreadtobeboundtoonekernel
thread.
twolevel
Pthreadsrefersto____.
WRONG:animplementationforthreadbehavior.POSIXstandard
defininganAPIforthreadcreationandsynchronization??
tispossibletocreateathreadlibrarywithoutanykernellevelsupport.
True
Atraditional(orheavyweight)processhasasinglethreadofcontrol.
True
LWPis____.
placedbetweenuserandkeenerthreads
____isathreadlibraryforSolaristhatmapsmanyuserlevelthreadsto
onekernelthread.
GreenThreads
InLittle'sformulan=xW,whatdoesnrepresent?
averagequeuelength
Whichofthefollowingistrueofmultilevelqueuescheduling?
Eachqueuehasitsownschedulingalgorithm.
Themostcomplexschedulingalgorithmisthemultilevelfeedbackqueue
algorithm.
true
Ascheduleinwhicheachtransactionisexecutedatomicallyiscalleda(n)
____.
serialschedule
AssumeanadaptivemutexisusedforaccessingshareddataonaSolaris
Conditionvariablesandsemaphoresareneverusedinplaceofan
systemwithmultiprocessingcapabilities.Whichofthefollowingstatements
adaptivemutex.
isnottru
HowmanyphilosophersmayeatsimultaneouslyintheDiningPhilosophers
2
problemwith5philosophers?
Atransaction____.
Asolutiontothecriticalsectionproblemdoesnothavetosatisfywhichof
thefollowingrequirements?
atomicity
Whatisthepurposeofthemutexsemaphoreintheimplementationofthe
boundedbufferproblemusingsemaphores?
Itensuresmutualexclusion.
protectedbylocks.
true
Thevalueofacountingsemaphorecanrangeonlybetween0and1.
False
Athreadwillimmediatelyacquireadispatcherlockthatisthesignaled
state.
True
False
Atransaction____.
A___typepresentsasetofprogrammerdefinedoperationsthatare
providedmutualexclusionwithinit.
monitor
_____canbeusedtopreventbusywaitingwhenimplementinga
semaphore.
block??waitingqueues
InPeterson'ssolution,the____variableindicatesifaprocessisreadyto
enteritscriticalsection.
flag[i]
Asemaphore____.
isessentiallyanintegervariable
Thefirstreaderswritersproblem____.
requiresthatnoreaderwillbekeptwaitingunlessawriterhas
alreadyobtainedpermissiontousetheshareddatabase.
requiresthatnoreaderwillbekeptwaitingunlessawriterhasalready
obtainedpermissiontousetheshareddatabase.
False
False
Mutexlocksandcountingsemaphoresareessentiallythesamething.
False
EveryobjectinJavahasassociatedwithitasinglelock.
True
True
Aracecondition____.
dataconcurrently
_____isnotatechniqueforhandlingcriticalsectionsinoperatingsystems
Peterson'ssolution
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onmodernarchitectures.
WindowsXP,whenaccessingaglobalvariableonauniprocessorsystem,
____.
masksinterruptsforallinterrupthandlersthatmayalsoaccessthe
variable
False
Athreadwillimmediatelyacquireadispatcherlockthatisthesignaled
state.
true
True
False
WhichofthefollowingstatementsisNOTtrue?
WRONGAcountingsemaphorecanneverbeusedasabinary
semaphore.WRONGAbinarysemaphorecanneverbeusedasa
countingsemaphore.
Whenusingsemaphores,aprocessinvokesthewait()operationbefore
accessingitscriticalsection,followedbythesignal()operationupon
completionofitscriticalsection.Considerreversingtheorderofthesetwo
operationsfirstcallingsignal(),
Severalprocessescouldbeactiveintheircriticalsectionsatthe
sametime.
Aninstructionthatexecutesatomically____.
executesasasingle,uninterruptibleunit
Thelocalvariablesofamonitorcanbeaccessedbyonlythelocal
procedures.
True
protectedbylocks.
True
Whatisthepurposeofthemutexsemaphoreintheimplementationofthe
boundedbufferproblemusingsemaphores?
Itensuresmutualexclusion.
Thefirstreaderswritersproblem____.
requiresthatnoreaderwillbekeptwaitingunlessawriterhas
alreadyobtainedpermissiontousetheshareddatabase.
A(n)_______referstowhereaprocessisaccessing/updatingshareddata. criticalsection
Aracecondition____.
dataconcurrently
True
False
False
Aspinlock____.
doesnotrequireacontextswitchwhenaprocessmustwaitona
lock
True
WindowsXP,whenaccessingaglobalvariableonauniprocessorsystem,
____.
masksinterruptsforallinterrupthandlersthatmayalsoaccessthe
variable
False
A(n)_______referstowhereaprocessisaccessing/updatingshareddata. criticalsection
Theexec()systemcallcreatesanewprocess.
False
_____is/arenotatechniqueforpassingparametersfromanapplicationto
asystemcall.
Cache
_____isnotoneofthemajorcategoriesofsystemcalls.
Security
ManyoperatingsystemmergeI/Odevicesandfilesintoacombinedfile
becauseofthesimilarityofsystemcallsforeach.
True
Abootblock____.
typicallyonlyknowsthelocationandlengthoftherestofthe
bootstrapprogram
Thevirtualmachine[VM]conceptisdesignedtoinsulatevarioussystem
resourcesfromprocessesrunningontheVM.
True
Aprocesscontrolblock____.
includesinformationontheprocess'sstate
SharedmemoryisamoreappropriateIPCmechanismthanmessage
passingfordistributedsystems.
False
_____isnotconsideredachallengewhendesigningapplicationsfor
multicoresystems.
Ensuringthereisasufficientnumberofcores
WindowsXPusesthe____.
onetoonemodelmanytoonemodelonetomanymodelmanyto
manymodel
Cancellationpointsareassociatedwith____cancellation.
deferredasynchronousdeferredsynchronous
Thesinglebenefitofathreadpoolistocontrolthenumberofthreads.
False
InJava,datasharedbetweenthreadsissimplydeclaredglobally.
False
The_____modelmapseachuserlevelthreadtoonekernelthread.
onetoone
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__________involvesthedecisionofwhichkernelthreadtoscheduleonto
whichCPU.
Systemcontentionscope
ASolarisinteractivethreadwithpriority15hasahigherrelativeprioritythan
False
aninteractivethreadwithpriority20
The______occursinfirstcomefirstservedschedulingwhenaprocess
withalongCPUburstoccupiestheCPU.
Convoyeffect
Whichofthefollowingistrueofcooperativescheduling?
AprocesskeepstheCPUuntilitreleasestheCPUeitherby
terminatingorbyswitchingtothewaitingstate.
Roundrobin(RR)schedulingdegeneratestofirstcomefirstserved(FCFS)
True
schedulingifthetimequantumistoolong.
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