1.

Operating systems
(A) enables the programmer to draw a flow chart
(B) provides a layer, user friendly interface
(C) links a program with subroutine it references
(D) all of these

2. Which of the following Is not a part of the operating system?

(A) Input/output control program
(B) Job control program
(C) Supervisor
(D) Performance monitor

3. Which of the following is not an operating system?

(A) UNIX
(B) MS-DOS
(C) CP/M
(D) PASCAL

4. What is the name of the operating system that reads and reacts in terms of actual time?
(A) Real time system
(B) Time sharing system
(C) Quick response system
(D) Batch system

5. UNIX operating system

(A) can run on PC’s and larger system
(B) is multitasking
(C) is multiuser
(D) all of these

6. Card reader is an example of

(A) Multi-tasking
(B) Multiprogramming
(C) Batch operating system
(D) None of these

7. Two basic types of operating systems are

(A) Batch and interactive
(B) Sequential and real time
(C) Batch and time share
(D) Sequential and direct

8. The Operating System was first introduced, the primary goal was mainly to ___
(A) Share memory
(B) User friendly
(C) Optimize resources
(D) None of the given

9. Which one of the following errors will be handle by the operating system?
a) lack of paper in printer
b) connection failure in the network
c) power failure
d) all of the mentioned

10. Which one of the following is not true?

a) kernel remains in the memory during the entire computer session
b) kernel is made of various modules which can not be loaded in running operating system
c) kernel is the first part of the operating system to load into memory during booting
d) kernel is the program that constitutes the central core of the operating system
11. Which one of the following is not a real time operating system?
a) RTLinux
b) Palm OS
c) QNX
d) VxWorks
12. The minimum number of page frames that must be allocated to a running process in a virtual memory environment is
determined by ____________
a) the instruction set architecture
b) page size
c) physical memory size
d) number of processes in memory

13. What is the maximum length of the filename in DOS?

a. 4
b. 5
c. 8
d. 12

14. Which of the following is the extension of Notepad?

a. .txt
b. .xls
c. .ppt
d. .bmp

15. BIOS is used?

a. By operating system
b. By compiler
c. By interpreter
d. By application software

16. Which of the following windows does not have a start button?
a. Windows 7
b. Windows 8
c. Windows XP
d. None of these

17. Which of the following operating systems does not support more than one program at a time?
a. Linux
b. Windows
c. MAC
d. DOS

18. Where are placed the list of processes that are prepared to be executed and waiting?
a. Job queue
b. Ready queue
c. Execution queue
d. Process queue
19. Which of the following does not interrupt the running process?
a. Timer interrupt
b. Device
c. Power failure
d. Scheduler process

20. What type of commands are required to perform various tasks in DOS?
a. Internal commands
b. External commands
c. Valuable commands
d. Primary commands

21. Which program runs first after booting the computer and loading the GUI?
a. Desktop Manager
b. File Manager
c. Windows Explorer
d. Authentication

22. What is the use of directory structure in the operating system?

a. The directory structure is used to solve the problem of the network connection in OS.
b. It is used to store folders and files hierarchically.
c. It is used to store the program in file format.
d. All of the these

23. Which of the following file systems is supported by the windows OS?
a. NTFS
b. FAT32
c. exFAT
d. All of the these

24. Which of the following operating system runs on the server?

a. Batch OS
b. Distributed OS
c. Real-time OS
d. Network OS

25. What type of memory stores data in a swap file on a hard drive?
a. Secondary memory
b. Virtual memory
c. Low memory
d. RAM
 26. Which method is the best among file allocation methods?
a. Linked
b. Contiguous
c. Indexed
d. None of the these

27. What is the paging in the operating system?

a. Memory management scheme
b. Network management scheme
c. Internet management scheme
d. None of the these

28. In which allocation method does the user size the file before creating the file?
a. Contiguous
b. Linked
c. Indexed
d. None of the these

29. Which of the following component does not belong to PCB (Process Control Block)?
a. CPU registers
b. CPU scheduling information
c. Operating System information
d. Accounting information

30. Buffer is a ___________.

a. Permanent area
b. Temporary area
c. Small area
d. Large area

31. Which of the following statement is correct about fragmentation?

a. It is software that connects the OS.
b. It is part of the software.
c. Loss the memory
d. All of the these

32. The PCB is identified by ___________.

a. Real-Number
b. Binary Number
c. Store block
d. Integer Process ID

33. Which of the following statements is correct about virtual memory?

a. It is a combination of the logical-memory and physical-memory
b. It is a separation of user logical memory and physical memory
c. It is a virtual network memory
d. None of the these
34. Computer system is divided into how many numbers of components?
(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 4

35. Which of the following software is used to simplify using of system software?
(A) Time sharing
(B) Multi-tasking
(C) Operating environment
(D) Spreadsheet

36. Which of the following is an example of a spooled device?

(A) A graphic display device
(B) A line printer used to print the output of a number of jobs
(C) A secondary storage device in a virtual memory system
(D) A terminal used to enter input data to a running program

37. Two basic types of operating systems are

(A) Batch and interactive
(B) Sequential and real time
(C) Batch and time share
(D) Sequential and direct

38. What is the size of a sector on a hard disk?

A. 512K
B. 1K
C. 512 bytes
D. 4K

39. What physical component of the disk is responsible for reading and writing data on the disk?

A. Platter
B. Sector
C. Cluster
D. Read/write head

40. Which of the following best describes seek time?

A. The time it takes to move the appropriate sector under the read/write head
B. The time it takes to move the read/write heads to the appropriate track
C. The time it takes to find a file that is being deleted
D. The time it takes to find an empty cluster to write to

41. Which of the following best describes where the Master Boot Record is located?

A. Last track on the disk

B. First track on the disk
C. First sector on the first track of the first side of the first platter
D. First sector on the last side of the last platter

42. What is disk latency?

A. The time it takes to move the read/write heads to the appropriate track
B. The speed at which the disk spins
C. The time it takes for the sector that needs to be read to move under the read/write head
D. The time it takes to get the disk to spin at the maximum speed

43. What is the term used to describe the same track on all platters within a disk?

A. Track
B. Sector
C. Head
D. Cylinder

44. The desktop operating system is also called a ____

A. Single user operating system

B. Client operating system
C. Multi user operating system
D. Embedded operating system

45. Which of the following is not an operating system?

A. Oracle
B. Windows
C. Linux
D. Dos

46. Which of the following is a database of information about the windows operating system including
customized settings and software installations?

A. Registry
B. Performance Monitor
C. Changelog
D. None of the mentioned

47. Scheduling of threads is done by

A. Output
B. Operating System
C. Input
D. Memory

48. What else is a command interpreter called?

A. Prompt
B. Kernel
C. Shell
D. Command
49. What is the ready state of a process?

A. When process is unable to run until some task has been completed
B. When process is scheduled to run after some execution
C. When process is using the CPU
D. None of the mentioned

50. Which of the following memory unit that processor can access more rapidly
A. Main Memory
 B. Virtual Memory
C. Cache memory
D. Read Only Memory

51. Process is

A. Program in High level language kept on disk

B. Contents of main memory
C. A job in secondary memory
D. A program in execution

52. A set of processes is deadlock if ____________

A. Each process is terminated

B. All processes are trying to kill each other
C. Each process is blocked and will remain so forever
D. None of the mentioned

53. Which of the following statements is false?

A. the technique of storage compaction involves moving all occupied areas of storage to one end or other
of main storage
B. compaction does not involve relocation of programs
C. compaction is also know as garbage collection
D. the system must stop everything while it performs the compaction
E. None of the above

54. Which of the following are loaded into main memory when the computer is booted?

A. internal command instructions

B. external command instructions
C. utility programs
D. word processing instructions
E. None of the above

55. Fragmentation of the file system

A. occurs only if the file system is used improperly

B. can always be prevented
C. can be temporarily removed by compaction
D. is a characteristic of all file systems
E. None of the above

56. The process of transferring data intended for a peripheral device into a disk (or intermediate store) so that it
can be transferred to peripheral at a more convenient time or in bulk, is known as

A. multiprogramming
B. spooling
C. caching
D. virtual programming
E. None of the above

57. Which of the following is false about disk when compared to main memory?

A. non-volatile
B. longer storage capacity
C. lower price per bit
D. faster
E. None of the above

58. What is the name of the technique in which the operating system of a computer executes several
programs concurrently by switching back and forth between them?

A. Partitioning
B. Multitasking
C. Windowing
D. Paging

59. Software that measures, monitors, analyzes, and controls real-world events is called:
A. system software
B. real-time software
C. scientific software
D. business software

60. A disk scheduling algorithm in an operating system causes the disk arm to move back and forth
across the disk surface in order to service all requests in its path. This is a
A. First come first served
B. Shortest Seek Time First (SSTE)
C. Scan
D. FIFO

61. Multiprogramming

A. is a method of memory allocation by which the program is subdivided into equal portions, or pages
and core is subdivided into equal portions or blocks.
B. consists of those addresses that may be generated by a processor during execution of a computation.
C. is a method of allocating processor time.
D. allows multiple programs to reside in separate areas of core at the time.

62.
Paging

A. is a method of memory allocation by which the program is subdivided into equal portions, or pages
and core is subdivided into equal portions or blocks.
B. consists of those addresses that may be generated by a processor during execution of a computation.
C.is a method of allocating processor time.
D. allows multiple programs to reside in separate areas of core at the time.

63. Which of the following is characteristic of an operating system?

A. resource management
B. error recovery
C. memory management
D. All the above

64. Virtual Memory

A. is a method of memory allocation by which the program is subdivided into equal portions, or pages
and core is subdivided into equal portions or blocks.
B. consists of those addresses that may be generated by a processor during execution of a computation.
C. is a method of allocating processor time.
D. allows multiple programs to reside in separate areas of core at the time.
65. In a magnetic disk, data is recorded in a set of concentric tracks which are subdivided into
A. periods
B. sectors
C. zones
D. groups

66. A program
A. is a device that performs a sequence of operations specified by instructions in memory.
B. is the device where information is stored
C. is a sequence of instructions
D. is typically characterized by interactive processing and time of the CPU's time to allow quick
response to each user.

67. Multiprogramming systems:

A. are easier to develop than single programming system
B. execute each job faster
C. execute more jobs in the same time period
D. are used only on large mainframe computers

68. The function(s) performed by the paging software is (are)

A. Implementation of the access environment for all programs in the system
B. Management of the physical address space
C. Sharing and protection
D. All of the above

69. What command do you use to create Linux file systems?

A. fdisk
B. mkfs
C. fsck
D. mount

70. RAID level 5 is also known as ____________

a) bit-interleaved parity organization
b) block-interleaved parity organization
c) block-interleaved distributed parity
d) memory-style ECC organization

71. RAID stands for ____________

a) Redundant Allocation of Inexpensive Disks
b) Redundant Array of Important Disks
c) Redundant Allocation of Independent Disks
d) Redundant Array of Independent Disks

72. RAID level ________ refers to disk arrays with striping at the level of blocks, but without any
redundancy.
a) 0
b) 1
c) 2
d) 3

73. RAID level _______ refers to disk mirroring.

a) 0
b) 1
c) 2
d) 3

74. To create a file ____________

a) allocate the space in file system
b) make an entry for new file in directory
c) allocate the space in file system & make an entry for new file in directory
d) none of the mentioned

75. Mapping of network file system protocol to local file system is done by ____________
a) network file system
b) local file system
c) volume manager
d) remote mirror

76. The heads of the magnetic disk are attached to a _____ that moves all the heads as a unit.
a) spindle
b) disk arm
c) track
d) none of the mentioned

77. The time taken to move the disk arm to the desired cylinder is called the ____________
a) positioning time
b) random access time
c) seek time
d) rotational latency

78. What is the disk bandwidth?

a) the total number of bytes transferred
b) total time between the first request for service and the completion on the last transfer
c) the total number of bytes transferred divided by the total time between the first request for service
and the completion on the last transfer
d) none of the mentioned

79. In the _______ algorithm, the disk head moves from one end to the other, servicing requests along
the way. When the head reaches the other end, it immediately returns to the beginning of the disk
without servicing any requests on the return trip.
a) LOOK
b) SCAN
c) C-SCAN
d) C-LOOK

80. 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

81. A process can be terminated due to __________

a) normal exit
b) fatal error
c) killed by another process
d) all of the mentioned

82. The address of the next instruction to be executed by the current process is provided by the
__________
a) CPU registers
b) Program counter
c) Process stack
d) Pipe
83. A Process Control Block(PCB) does not contain which of the following?
a) Code
b) Stack
c) Bootstrap program
d) Data

84. The state of a process is defined by __________

a) the final activity of the process
b) the activity just executed by the process
c) the activity to next be executed by the process
d) the current activity of the process

85. Which of the following is a single-user operating system?

MAC
Ms-Dos
Windows
None of the above

86. The first UNIX operating system was written in

A. Java
B. Pascal
C. Programming C
D. Machine Language

87. In distributed system, each processor has its own ___________

a) local memory
b) clock
c) both local memory and clock
d) none of the mentioned

88. Processes on the remote systems are identified by ___________

a) host ID
b) host name and identifier
c) identifier
d) process ID

89. The capability of a system to adapt the increased service load is called ___________
a) scalability
b) tolerance
c) capacity
d) none of the mentioned

90. Selection of an operating system is known as ..................

Site selection
Product selection
Process selection
Equipment selection

91. What is the maximum size of a word document created?

1 MB
16MB
32 MB
999KB
92. Access time is the highest in the case of ..............
Swapping Devices
Cache
Floppy Disk
Magnetic Disks

93. Which types of file organization are supported by Magnetic Tape?

Contiguous Sequential File
Random Files
Indexed Sequential File
All of these

94. A file control block contains the information about ____________

a) file ownership
b) file permissions
c) location of file contents
d) all of the mentioned

95. What is raw disk?

a) disk without file system
b) empty disk
c) disk lacking logical file system
d) disk having file system

96. One difficulty of contiguous allocation is _____________

a) finding space for a new file
b) inefficient
c) costly
d) time taking

97. Metadata includes _____________

a) all of the file system structure
b) contents of files
c) both file system structure and contents of files
d) none of the mentioned

98. In the linked allocation, the directory contains a pointer to which block?
I. first block
II. last block
a) I only
b) II only
c) Both I and II
d) Neither I nor II

99. There is no __________ with linked allocation.

a) internal fragmentation
b) external fragmentation
c) starvation
d) all of the mentioned

100. What is the major disadvantage with a linked allocation?

a) internal fragmentation
b) external fragmentation
c) there is no sequential access
d) there is only sequential access
101. What if a pointer is lost or damaged in a linked allocation?
a) the entire file could get damaged
b) only a part of the file would be affected
c) there would not be any problems
d) none of the mentioned

102. By using FAT, random access time is __________

a) the same
b) increased
c) decreased
d) not affected

103. A better way of contiguous allocation to extend the file size is _____________
a) adding an extent (another chunk of contiguous space)
b) adding an index table to the first contiguous block
c) adding pointers into the first contiguous block
d) none of the mentioned

104. The FAT is used much as a _________

a) stack
b) linked list
c) data
d) pointer

105. Each _______ has its own index block.

a) partition
b) address
c) file
d) all of the mentioned

106. For any type of access, contiguous allocation requires ______ access to get a disk block.
a) only one
b) at least two
c) exactly two
d) none of the mentioned

107. What is cloud computing?

a) Cloud computing means providing services like storage, servers, database, networking, etc
b) Cloud computing means storing data in a database
c) Cloud computing is a tool used to create an application
d) None of the above

108. Which of the following is an example of the cloud?

a) Amazon Web Services (AWS)
b) Dropbox
c) Cisco WebEx
d) All of the above

109. Which of the following is an example of a PaaS cloud service?

a) Heroku
b) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
c) Windows Azure
d) All of the above

110. Point out the correct statement.

a) Cloud computing abstracts systems by pooling and sharing resources
b) Cloud computing is nothing more than the Internet
c) The use of the word “cloud” makes reference to the two essential concepts
d) All of the mentioned.

111. Cloud Platform provided by Amazon is _________________

a) AWS
b) Cloudera
c) Azure
d) All of the mentioned

112. Which one of the following is also known as a Hypervisor?

VMA
VMM
VMS
VMR

113. Which of the following cloud concept is related to pooling and sharing of resources?
a) Polymorphism
b) Abstraction
c) Virtualization
d) None of the mentioned

114. Which of the following is the correct full form of SaaS?

Storage-as-a-Service
Server-as-a-Software
Software-as-a-Service
None of the above

115. 4. Point out the correct statement:

A : Google’s cloud includes perhaps some 10 datacenters worldwide
B : Flipkart.com’s infrastructure was built to support elastic demand so the system could accommodate
peak traffic
C : Datacenters have been sited to optimize the overall system latency
D : Datacenters don’t optimize the system latency

116. 8. When you add operating system and applications to the service, the model called as
____________.
A : PaaS
B : CaaS
C : SaaS
D : IaaS

117. ________________ is a paradigm of distributed computing to provide the customers on-demand,

utility based computing service.
A : Distributed System
B : Cloud Computing
C : Remote Sensing
D : Private Computing

118. Which one of the following was owned by an organization that sells cloud services?

Hybrid
Private
Community
Public

119. Which one of the following is a type of infrastructure as a service?

EC2
EC1
EC10
Hybrid

120. _______ enables batch processing, which greatly speeds up high-processing applications.

Scalability
Reliability
Elasticity
Utility

121. When a teenager enters his or her room, for example, the music will play louder, lights may dim,
and the computer might initiate specific Skype connections. If a parent enters the room, the volume
will lower, lights will turn on, and the Skype page might
A : Energy aware Cloud Computing
B : Multimedia Cloud Computing
C : Home Based Cloud Computing
D : Cloud TV Computing

122. Which of the following is a more sophisticated load balancer?

A : Rack server managers
B : Workload managers
C : Workspace managers
D : Network server managers

123. Point out the correct statement.

a) Google’s cloud includes perhaps some 10 data centers worldwide
b) Flipkart.com’s infrastructure was built to support elastic demand so the system could accommodate
peak traffic
c) Data centers have been sited to optimize the overall system latency
d) All of the mentioned

124. Which of the following is Cloud Platform by Amazon?

a) Azure
b) AWS
c) Cloudera
d) All of the mentioned

125. The process of converting Ciphertext data to Plaintext data is known as ?

A : Encryption
B : Decryption