LANGUAGE PROCESSORS QUIZ

The Process Manager has to keep track of:

the information management support to a programmer using the system

the status of each program

both (a) and (b)

the priority of each program

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Multiprogramming was made possible by

neither (a) nor (b)

input/output units that operate independently of the CPU

both (a) and (b)

operating systems

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A system program that combines the separately compiled modules of a program into a form suitable for execution

assembler

linking loader

load and go

cross compiler

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The table created by lexical analysis to describe all literals used in the source program, is:

Reductions

Literal table

Terminal table

Identifier table

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The task(s) of the Lexial analysis phase is/are:

to build a literal table and an identifier table

to build a uniform symbol table

All of these

to parse the source program into the basic elements or tokens of the language

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In which addressing mode, the effective address of the operand is generated by adding a constant value to the contents of register?

index mode

indirect mode

absolute mode

immediate mode

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Which of the following program is not a utility?

Debugger

Spooler

Editor

All of these

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Systems software is a program that directs the overall operation of the computer, facilitates its use and interacts with the users. What are the different types of this software?

All of these

Operating system

Languages

Utilities

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Which of the following system program forgoes the production of object code to generate absolute machine code and load it into the physical main storage location from which it will be executed immediately upon completion of the assembly?

load-and-go assembler

two pass assembler

compiler

macroprocessor

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A non-relocatable program is one which

consists of a program and relevant information for its relocation

can itself perform the relocation of its address-sensitive portions

cannot be made to execute in any area of storage other than the one designated for it at the time of its coding or translation

All of these

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