OPERATING SYSTEM MCQS PART 01

OPERATING SYSTEM MCQS PART 01

1. Translator for low level programming language were termed as
(A) Assembler      
(B) Compiler        
(C) Linker    
(D) Loader
Ans: (A)
2) Analysis which determines the meaning of a statement once its grammatical structure becomes known is termed as
(A) Semantic analysis      
(B) Syntax analysis   
(C) Regular analysis       
(D) General analysis
Ans: (A)

3. Load address for the first word of the program is called
(A) Linker address origin  
(B) load address origin
(C) Phase library          
(D) absolute library
Ans: (B)

4. Symbolic names can be associated with
A) Information    
(B) data or instruction
(C) operand
(D) mnemonic operation
Ans: (B)

5. The translator which perform macro expansion is called a
(A) Macro processor
(B) Macro pre-processor  
(C) Micro pre-processor
(D) assembler
Ans: (B)

6. Shell is the exclusive feature of
(A) UNIX      
(B) DOS   
(C) System software      
(D) Application software
Ans: (A)

7. A program in execution is called
(A) Process           
(B) Instruction         
(C) Procedure      
(D) Function
Ans: (A)
8. Interval between the time of submission and completion of the job is called
(A) Waiting time
(B) Turnaround time 
(C) Throughput
(D) Response time
Ans: (B)

9. A scheduler which selects processes from secondary storage device is called
(A) Short term scheduler.         
(B) Long term scheduler.
(C) Medium term scheduler.     
(D) Process scheduler.
Ans: (C)

10. The scheduling in which CPU is allocated to the process with least CPU-burst time is called
(A) Priority Scheduling                
(B) Shortest job first Scheduling
(C) Round Robin Scheduling        
(D) Multilevel Queue Scheduling
Ans: (B)