MCQ of Operating Systems – Set 5

In this series of MCQ Questions set you will get Multiple Choice Questions related to the topic Operating Systems, as usual in this set of MCQ Questions there are 10 MCQ Questions and four options to each questions but only one option is the correct one. Correct answer of these questions are given below of this question set.

MCQ on Operating Systems

Multiple Choice Questions on Operating Systems

5-1 What does Belady’s Anomaly related to?
A. Page Replacement Algorithm
B. Memory Management Algorithm
C. Deadlock Prevention Algorithm
D. Disk Scheduling Algorithm

5-2 What are the two types of Semaphore?
A. Digital Semaphores and Binary Semaphores
B. Analog Semaphores and Octal Semaphores         
C. Counting Semaphores and Binary Semaphores
D. Critical Semaphores and System Semaphores

5-3 What is dispatch latency?
A. The time taken by the dispatcher to stop one process and start another
B. The time taken by the processor to write a file into disk
C. The whole time taken by all processor
D. None of Above

5-4 Which of the following is not process states?
A. New
B. Running
C. Ready
D. Finished

5-5 What are the requirements for the solution to critical section problem?
A. Mutual Exclusion
B. Progress
C. Bounded Waiting
D. All of Above

5-6 Which of the following is the allocation method of a disk space?
A. Contiguous allocation
B. Linked allocation
C. Indexed allocation
D. All of the Above

5-7 What is the method of handling deadlocks?
A. Use a protocol to ensure that the system will never enter a deadlock state.
B. Allow the system to enter the deadlock state and then recover.
C. Pretend that deadlocks never occur in the system.
D. All of the Above

5-8 What do you mean by Memory Compaction?
A. Combine multiple equal memory holes into one big hole
B. Combine multiple small memory holes into one big hole
C. Divide big memory hole into small holes
D. Divide memory hole by 2

5-9 What is Thrashing?
A. A high paging activity is called thrashing.
B. A high executing activity is called thrashing
C. A extremely long process is called thrashing
D. A extremely long virtual memory is called thrashing

5-10 What hole will allocates in “Worst-Fit

16 Responses to “MCQ of Operating Systems – Set 5”

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    • Ganesh Maharjan 12 June 2012 at 5:03 PM

      Dear Ajay,
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    • Ganesh Maharjan 22 July 2012 at 6:23 PM

      Dear Biswaji Das,
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  5. sud 29 June 2012 at 12:36 PM

    hey hi,
    Nice set of questions for a quick revision thanks for your efforts.
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    • Ganesh Maharjan 22 July 2012 at 6:05 PM

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  6. Rupsa Debnath 30 June 2012 at 11:24 PM

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  7. Sonal Rathore 12 October 2012 at 9:13 PM

    Hello sir
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  8. Sharda Santosh Patil 30 November 2012 at 11:49 AM

    Thank u Sir, for ur efforts, its all r useful questions for us, thank u very much sir..!
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  9. asmita 7 February 2013 at 7:32 PM

    nice,but the problem is that last time normally 2 or 3 mcq’s are ask in exam & other questions are more difficult to understand,please upload more mcq’s.thanks.

  10. Ajit Bauskar 7 January 2014 at 11:25 AM

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