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Understanding Operating Systems 7Th Edition Mchoes Test Bank Full Chapter PDF
Understanding Operating Systems 7Th Edition Mchoes Test Bank Full Chapter PDF
TRUE/FALSE
1. The universal serial bus (USB) controller acts as an interface between the operating system, device
drivers, applications, and the devices that are attached via the USB host.
3. Direct access storage devices (DASDs) are devices that can directly read or write to an arbitrary place
on a disk.
5. A seek strategy for an I/O device handler is the predetermined policy that the device handler uses to
allocate access to the device among the many processes that may be waiting for it. It determines the
order in which the processes get the device; the goal is to keep transfer time to a minimum.
6. First-come, first-served (FCFS) is the simplest device-scheduling algorithm; it is easy to program and
essentially fair to users.
7. The Shortest Seek Time First device-scheduling algorithm moves the arm methodically from the inner
to the outer track, servicing every request in its path.
8. In the N-Step SCAN device-scheduling algorithm, any requests that arrive while the arm is in motion
are grouped for the arm’s next sweep.
9. There are many more sectors on an optical disc than on a magnetic disk of the same area.
10. An optical disc drive spins at a constant speed—this is called constant linear velocity.
12. A DVD with a fast data transfer rate will drop fewer frames when playing back a recorded video
segment than will a unit with a slower transfer rate.
13. Blu-ray discs are available in several formats: read-only (BD-ROM), recordable (BD-R), and
rewritable (BD-RE).
14. The job of the I/O control unit is to keep up with the I/O requests from the CPU and pass them down
the line to the appropriate control unit.
15. When using DMA, the CPU controls the transfer of data to and from memory over the system bus.
16. Buffers are used to synchronize the movement of data between the relatively slow I/O devices and the
very fast CPU.
17. RAID is a set of logical disk drives, viewed as a single physical unit by the operating system.
18. RAID begins with the assumption that a small set of large-capacity disk drives is preferable to a larger
set of small-capacity disk drives.
19. RAID Level 0 is not considered a true form of RAID because it cannot recover from hardware failure.
20. Nested RAID levels, also called hybrid levels, are complex RAID configurations created by combining
multiple standard levels.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
2. The USB controller assigns bandwidth to each device depending on its priority. The ____ priority is
assigned to real-time exchanges where no interruption in the data flow is allowed, such as video or
sound data.
a. highest c. lowest
b. medium d. standard
ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: 211
3. The I/O ____ allocates the devices, control units, and channels.
a. scheduler c. device handler
b. traffic controller d. director
ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: 212
4. The number of characters that can be recorded per inch on a magnetic tape is determined by the ____
of the tape.
a. width c. density
b. length d. parity
ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: 213
5. Transfer rate of a magnetic tape is measured in inches per second (ips) using the following formula:
transfer rate = density * ____.
a. block size c. transport speed
b. average access time d. sector size
ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: 215
6. If 2.5 minutes is the maximum access time for a magnetic tape, ____ is the average access time.
a. 0.5 minutes c. 1.25 minutes
b. 1 minute d. 2 minutes
ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: 216
7. Of the three components of access time in a movable-head DASD, ____ is the slowest.
a. seek time c. transfer time
b. search time d. delay time
ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: 218
8. ____ time is the time required to move the arm of a movable-head magnetic drive into position over
the proper track.
a. Search c. Transfer
b. Seek d. Access
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 220
9. ____ uses the same underlying philosophy as shortest job next, where the shortest jobs are processed
first and longer jobs are made to wait.
a. LOOK c. SSTF
b. FCFS d. SCAN
ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: 222
10. ____ is a way to optimize search times on hard disk drives by ordering the requests once the read/write
heads have been positioned.
a. Rotational ordering c. C-SCAN
b. SSTF d. LOOK and SCAN
ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: 225
11. The advent of optical discs was made possible by developments in ____ technology.
a. magnetic c. storage
b. laser d. silicone
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 227
13. The data-transfer rate for an optical disc is measured in ____ per second and refers to the speed at
which massive amounts of data can be read from the disc.
a. kilobytes c. gigabytes
b. megabytes d. terabytes
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 228
14. To put data on an optical disc requires a high-intensity laser beam, which burns indentations, called
pits, and flat areas, called ____.
a. lands c. hills
b. valleys d. lakes
ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: 229
15. A dual-layer, single-sided DVD can hold the equivalent of ____ CDs.
a. 3 c. 13
b. 8 d. 19
ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: 230
16. To write data to flash memory, a relatively high voltage is sent through one transistor, called the ____,
then through a metal oxide layer and into a second transistor called the control gate, where the charge
is stored in a cell until it’s erased.
a. parallel port c. pit
b. floating gate d. crystalline port
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 231
17. ____ control the transfer of information between the disk drives and the rest of the computer system.
a. System controllers c. System interfaces
b. Disk drive controllers d. Disk drive interfaces
ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: 235
18. The ____ is a hardware flag that must be tested by the CPU to determine when a device has completed
an operation.
a. Channel Interrupt Word c. Device Status Word
b. Channel Status Word d. Device Polling Word
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 237
19. A ____, used in RAID Level 2, is a coding scheme that adds extra, redundant bits to the data and is
therefore able to correct single-bit errors and detect double-bit errors.
a. Synch code c. Parity code
b. Hamming code d. Redundancy code
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 243
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