1. Terminal is an interface between shell and __________.

(application)
2. Which of the following is the property of time sharing system?
a. Multiple user access b. Multiprogramming
i. a only. ii. b only. iii. Both a and b. iv neither a nor b

Ans. C
3. Which of the following operating systems has the highest portability?
a. An OS with a monolithic structure
b. An OS with a layered structure
c. A virtual machine os
d. A kernel-based OS. [c]
4. Linux is _______ operating system. (multi-user)
5. The Operating system of a computer serve as a software interface between user and
the ________.(hardware)
6. _____________ operating systems are used in intelligent devices.(Real-time os)
7. Which job is not performed by the operating system?
a. Memory management. B device management c. supplying Input to system d.
Process management. [c]

8. The operating system depend on network to deliver their services

a. Multitasking b. Distributed OS c. Multiprocessing d. Real-time OS
[b]
9. This is a program, used to write source code
a. Editor b. compiler c. Assembler d. Interpreter. [a]
10. Which of the following statements is/are always true?
i. Time taken for mode switch is always less than process switch.
ii. Time taken for mode switch is always greater than process switch
iii. Time taken for mode switch is always equal to process switch
a. I & III b. I & II. C I D II [c]
11. File editor is a system software. (T/F). [T]
12. Nano, vi and gedit are the example of _______ editor. [text]
13. System calls are usually invoked by using
a. A software interrupt
b. Polling
c. an indirect jump
d. A privileged instruction [a]
14. Which of the following is the type of systems software used on microcomputer?
a. Ms-dos b PC-dos c Unix d all of above [d]
15. The advantage of a command processor running only built-in commands is :
a. Flexibility to the user in running lists of commands by simply collecting them in
named batch command files
b. The command set being common across different hardware configuration
c. User can create system program and run them as commands
d. Terminal processing much faster than would otherwise be the case when user
defined commands are used. [b]
16. Which of the following error is handle by the operating system:
 a. Power failure. B lack of paper in printer c connection failure d. all of the
mentioned [d]
17. Which of the following requires a device driver?
a. Register b. cache c. main memory d. disk. [d]
18. The essential difference between an operating system like Linux and one like
windows is that
a. Windows can run with an Intel processor,whereas Linux cannot
b. Linux is a proprietary whereas Windows not
c. There are multiple version of Linux, but only one version of windows
d. Any programmer can modify Linux code which is not permitted with windows
[d]

19. Which is the first program run on a computer when the computer boots up?
a. System software
b. Operating system
c. System operation
d. None. [b]
20. The Operating system is the most common type of ------- software
a. Communication
b. Application
c. System
d. Command processing software. [c]
21. Multiprogramming of the computer system increases
a) Memory
b) Storage
c) CPU Utilization
d) Cost [c]
22. What is the ready state of a process?
a) when process is scheduled to run after some execution
b) when process is unable to run until some task has been completed
c) when process is using the CPU
d) none of the mentioned
[a]
23. The address of the next instruction to be executed by the current process is provided by
the __________
a) CPU registers
b) Program counter
c) Process stack
d) Pipe
[b]
24. Which system call returns the process identifier of a terminated child?
a) wait
b) exit
c) fork
d) get
[a]
25. The state of a process is defined by __________
a) the final activity of the process
b) the activity just executed by the process
c) the activity to next be executed by the process
d) the current activity of the process
[d]
26. The number of processes completed per unit time is known as __________
a) Output
b) Throughput
c) Efficiency
d) Capacity
[b]
27. What is the degree of multiprogramming?
a) the number of processes executed per unit time
b) the number of processes in the ready queue
c) the number of processes in the I/O queue
d) the number of processes in memory
[d]
28. A user level process in Unix traps the signal sent on a Ctrl-C input, and has a signal
handling routine that saves appropriate files before terminating the process. When a Ctrl-C
input is given to this process, what is the mode in which the signal handling routine
executes?
a) Kernal Mode
b) Superuser mode
c) Privileged Mode
d) User Mode
[a]
29. Cascading termination refers to termination of all child processes before the parent
terminates ______
a) Normally
b) Abnormally
c) Normally or abnormally
d) None of the mentioned
[a]
30. The child process completes execution, but the parent keeps executing, then the child
process is known as __________
a) Orphan
b) Zombie
c) Body
d) Dead
[b]
31. The child process can __________
a) be a duplicate of the parent process
b) never be a duplicate of the parent process
c) cannot have another program loaded into it
d) never have another program loaded into it
[a]
32. What is a long-term scheduler?
a) It selects which process has to be brought into the ready queue
b) It selects which process has to be executed next and allocates CPU
c) It selects which process to remove from memory by swapping
d) None of the mentioned
[a]
33. What is a medium-term scheduler?
a) It selects which process has to be brought into the ready queue
b) It selects which process has to be executed next and allocates CPU
c) It selects which process to remove from memory by swapping
d) None of the mentioned
[c]
34. What is a short-term scheduler?
a) It selects which process has to be brought into the ready queue
b) It selects which process has to be executed next and allocates CPU
c) It selects which process to remove from memory by swapping
d) None of the mentioned
[b]
35. In a time-sharing operating system, when the time slot given to a process is completed,
the process goes from the running state to the __________
a) Blocked state
b) Ready state
c) Suspended state
d) Terminated state
[b]