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CSCI 340 Test 1, covering fundamental operating systems concepts. It includes process management (process states, PCB, schedulers, context switching, throughput, starvation, deadlock, priority inversion), interprocess communication (message passing, RPC, RMI, IPC mechanisms, synchronization tools), and scheduling (short-term, medium-term, long-term). Other topics include interrupts, traps/exceptions, mutual exclusion, semaphores, critical section, memory-mapped and programmed I/O, context of a process, boot process, and OS structures (monolithic, microkernel, hybrid, layered). It also reviews Unix/Linux process handling (fork, wait, zombie, orphan processes) and multiprogramming concepts.

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With _____________ only one process can execute at a time; meanwhile all other process
are waiting for the processor. With ______________ more than one process can be running
simultaneously each on a different processor.
a) Multiprocessing, Multiprogramming
b) Multiprogramming, Uniprocessing
c) Multiprogramming, Multiprocessing
d) Uniprogramming, Multiprocessing


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, d) Uniprogramming, Multiprocessing




Process synchronization can be done on
a) hardware level
b) software level
c) both hardware and software level
d) none of the mentioned


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c) both hardware and software level




A semaphore is a shared integer variable
a) that can not drop below zero
b) that can not be more than zero
c) that can not drop below one
d) that can not be more than one


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a) that can not drop below zero




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


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, a) It selects which process has to be brought into the ready queue




RPC provides a(an) _____ on the client side, a separate one for each remote procedure.
a) stub
b) identifier
c) name
d) process identifier


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a) stub




The OS X has ____________
a) monolithic kernel
b) hybrid kernel
c) microkernel
d) monolithic kernel with modules


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b) hybrid kernel




Mutual exclusion can be provided by the
a) mutex locks
b) binary semaphores
c) both mutex locks and binary semaphores
d) none of the mentioned


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, c) both mutex locks and binary semaphores




The entry of all the PCBs of the current processes is in:
a) Process Register
b) Program Counter
c) Process Table
d) Process Unit


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c) Process Table




In the Zero capacity queue :
a) the queue can store at least one message
b) the sender blocks until the receiver receives the message
c) the sender keeps sending and the messages don't wait in the queue
d) none of the mentioned


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b) the sender blocks until the receiver receives the message




The link between two processes P and Q to send and receive messages is called :
a) communication link
b) message-passing link
c) synchronization link
d) all of the mentioned


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