OPERATING SYSTEM (OS) QUIZ

To change the screen saver you can go from

Control panel display

Both of Above

Right click in desktop and properties

None of These

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Copying a process from memory to disk to allow space for other processes is Called

Page Fault

Deadlock

Demand Paging

Swapping

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In which addressing mode the contents of a register specified in the instruction are first decremented, and then these contents are used as the effective address of the operands?

auto decrement

indirect addressing

index addressing

None of these

auto increment

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A program

None of these

is the device where information is stored

is typically characterized by interactive processing and time of the CPU

is a sequence of instructions

is a device that performs a sequence of operations specified by instructions in memory.

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The maximum length of any single path from the root directory?

80

63

54

27

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Swapping

does not work with overlaying

None of these

works best with many small partitions

allows many programs to use memory simultaneously

allows each program in turn to use the memory

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What is the name given to all the programs inside the computer with makes it usable?

Firm ware

Shareware

Application software

None of these

System software

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A public key encryption system

allows only the correct receiver to decode the data

does not encode the data before transmitting it

allows only the correct sender to decode the data

None of these

allows anyone to decode the transmission

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Which one of the following is not a layer of operating system?

Kernel

Critical selection

Shell

Application program

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Operating system

provides a layered, user-friendly interface

enables the programmer to draw a flowchart

links a program with the subroutines it references

None of these

All of these

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