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Process and process scheduling is an important topic under the subject of an operating system. Process scheduling algorithms are a common target for questions when it comes to OS. Following is a short quiz on these topics of OS to test your knowledge. Let’s start!!!

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Question 1 of 20

1. Question

Address bus decides the:

Size of external drive

Size of OS

Size of virtual memory

All of the above

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Question 2 of 20

2. Question

TLBM stands for:

Translation Lookaside Buffer miss

Translation Look Buffer mass

Translation Lookaside Buffer mistake

None of the mentioned

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Question 3 of 20

3. Question

Who rejected the idea of Linux?

UNIX designers

Intel designers

Microsoft designers

All of the above

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Question 4 of 20

4. Question

Which one of the following is a common state of the process life cycle?

Ready

Wait

Terminate

All of these

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Question 5 of 20

5. Question

What does PCB stand for?

Program Control Block

Process Control Box

Program Counter Block

Process Control Block

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Question 6 of 20

6. Question

CPU bound needs:

Less CPU time

More CPU time

Less system memory

More system memory

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Question 7 of 20

7. Question

The list of processes prepared to be executed and waiting are stored in:

Job queue

Ready queue

Execution queue

Process queue

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Question 8 of 20

8. Question

Which one of the following does not have the ability to block a running process?

Fork

Read

Down

Write

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Question 9 of 20

9. Question

Which of the following is a process scheduling queue?

Job queue

Ready queue

Device queue

All of the above

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Question 10 of 20

10. Question

We can define round-robin scheduling as:

preemptive

non-preemptive

either preemptive or non-preemptive

neither preemptive nor non-preemptive

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Question 11 of 20

11. Question

Which of the following is a type of scheduler?

Long term

Short term

Medium-term

All of these

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Question 12 of 20

12. Question

Programs that perform specialized, individual-level tasks in Linux are called?

Kernel

System library

System utility

None of the above

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Question 13 of 20

13. Question

Which of the following is the state in the two-process model?

Running

Processing

Programming

Launching

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Question 14 of 20

14. Question

The two types of processes are:

Independent and cooperative

Independent and dependent

Right-handed and Left-handed

None of the above

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Question 15 of 20

15. Question

Which of the following is stored during context switching?

Program Counter

Scheduling information

Base and limit register value

all of the mentioned

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Question 16 of 20

16. Question

The wait function is represented by:

W()

V()

P()

None of the above

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Question 17 of 20

17. Question

Long term scheduler is a:

CPU scheduler

Process swapping scheduler

Memory scheduler

Job scheduler

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Question 18 of 20

18. Question

A scheduling algorithm doesn’t provide:

Minimum throughput

Minimum turnaround time

Minimum waiting time

Minimum response time

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Question 19 of 20

19. Question

The logical address is the address generated by the:

OS

CPU

Memory

None of the mentioned

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Question 20 of 20

20. Question

Proper thread synchronization in Race conditions can be maintained using:

Locks

Atomic variables

Both A and B

None of the above

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Summary

The above questions are a great way to learn about the in-between details of an OS. They tell us about process, program, process scheduling, and process scheduling algorithms which are some important parts of an OS.