Exercise : Operating System MCQ Questions and Answers
Question 1
System maintenance:
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Correct Answer : A. is necessary on all systems, regardless of how good
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Question 2
Tab scroll buttons are place on Excel screen
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Correct Answer : A. towards the bottom left corner
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Question 3
A Processor
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Correct Answer : A. is a device that performs a sequence of operations specified by instructions in memory.
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Question 4
A partitioned data set is most used for
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Correct Answer : B. a program or source library
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Question 5
The details of all external symbols and relocation formation (relocation list or map) is provided to linker by
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Correct Answer : D. Translator
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Question 6
An incremental backup
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Correct Answer : D. saves only files that have recently changed
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Question 7
Which of the following systems software does the job of merging the records from two files into one?
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Correct Answer : C. Utility program
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Question 8
The register or main memory location which contains the effective address of the operand is known as
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Correct Answer : B. pointer
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Question 9
To avoid the race condition, the number of processes that may be simultaneously inside their critical section is
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Correct Answer : B. 1
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Question 10
Which of the following statements is not true about the FORTRAN language?
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Correct Answer : A. A FORTRAN program, written for the IBM-PC, is totally different from a FORTRAN program written for execution on the SUN machine
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