Top 550+ Solved Operating System (OS) MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Which one of the following is the deadlock avoidance algorithm?
a. banker’s algorithm
b. round-robin algorithm
c. elevator algorithm
d. karn’s algorithm
Q. What is the drawback of banker’s algorithm?
a. in advance processes rarely know that how much resource they will need
b. the number of processes changes as time progresses
c. resource once available can disappear
d. all of the mentioned
Q. To avoid deadlock
a. there must be a fixed number of resources to allocate
b. resource allocation must be done only once
c. all deadlocked processes must be aborted
d. inversion technique can be used
Q. If the wait for graph contains a cycle :
a. then a deadlock does not exist
b. then a deadlock exists
c. then the system is in a safe state
d. either deadlock exists or system is in a safe state
Q. Physical memory is broken into fixed-sized blocks called ________
a. frames
b. pages
c. backing store
d. none of the mentioned
Q. Logical memory is broken into blocks of the same size called _________
a. frames
b. pages
c. backing store
d. none of the mentioned
Q. The __________ is used as an index into the page table.
a. frame bit
b. page number
c. page offset
d. frame offset
Q. _____ is the concept in which a process is copied into main memory from the secondarymemory according to the requirement.
a. Paging
b. Demand paging
c. Segmentation
d. Swapping
Q. Linux uses a time-sharing algorithm
a. to pair preemptive scheduling between multiple processes
b. for tasks where absolute priorities are more important than fairness
c. all of the mentioned
d. none of the mentioned
Q. First linux kernel which supports the SMP hardware was
a. linux 0.1
b. linux 1.0
c. linux 1.2
d. linux 2.0
Q. Which one of the following linux file system does not support journaling feature?
a. ext2
b. ext3
c. ext4
d. none of the mentioned
Q. Which binary format is supported by linux?
a. out
b. elf
c. both a.out and ELF
d. none of the mentioned
Q. Which one of the following bootloader is not used by linux?
a. GRUB
b. LILO
c. NTLDR
d. None of the mentioned
Q. The first process launched by the linux kernel is
a. init process
b. zombie process
c. batch process
d. boot process