Operating System (OS)
The total time to prepare a disk drive mechanism for a block of data to be read from it is

latency
latency plus seek time
None of these
latency plus transmission time
latency plus seek time plus transmission time

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Operating System (OS)
The term 'polling' in a computer means a process by which a computer system

decides correct alternative by analysing several ones
multiplexes the inputs and updates the memory accordingly
inquires to see if a terminal has any transaction to send
detects/corrects errors
None of these

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Operating System (OS)
Which of the following is not a characteristic of a daisy chaining priority control scheme?

priority is programmable
it is relatively easy to add more devices to the chain
the number of control lines is independent of the number of devices on the chain
the failure of one device may affect other devices on the chain
None of these

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Operating System (OS)
File record length

Should always be variable
should always be fixed
should be chosen to match the data characteristics
None of these
depends upon the size of the file

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