Computer Science MCQs » Operating System (OS) MCQs
What category of web-based system would you assign to discussion groups?

A. Collaborative work
B. Online communities
C. Web portals
D. workflow-oriented

The processes that are residing in the main memory for execution are kept on a list called?

A) Job queue
B) Ready queue
C) Execution queue
D) Process queue

The interval from the time of submission of a process to the time of completion is termed a?

A) Waiting time
B) Turnaround time
C) Response time
D) Throughput

Which scheduling algorithm allocates the CPU first to the process that requests the CPU first?

A) First-come first-served scheduling
B) Shortest job scheduling
C) Priority scheduling
D) None of these

Which one of the following can not be scheduled by the kernel?

A) Kernel-level thread
B) User-level thread
C) Process
D) None of the mentioned

Users are ……. that their processes are running on a paged system?

A) Aware
B) Unaware
C) Informed
D) None of these

CPU fetches the instruction from memory according to the value of?

A) Program counter
B) Status register
C) Instruction register
D) Program status word

A memory buffer used to accommodate a speed differential is called?

A) Slack pointer
B) Cache
C) Accumulator
D) Disk buffer

Which one of the following is the address generated by CPU?

A) Physical address
B) Absolute address
C) Logical address
D) None of these