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OS Concepts Test 7

Of the operating systems listed, UNIX was introduced first in 1971. It uses mechanisms like swapping, demand paging memory management, and the least recently used page replacement algorithm. DOS, which was made popular by IBM, offered only 1 directory in version 1.0 but modern Windows operating systems include DOS emulators.

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OS Concepts Test 7

Of the operating systems listed, UNIX was introduced first in 1971. It uses mechanisms like swapping, demand paging memory management, and the least recently used page replacement algorithm. DOS, which was made popular by IBM, offered only 1 directory in version 1.0 but modern Windows operating systems include DOS emulators.

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1. Of the operating systems listed, ____ was introduced first.

UNIX
2. The first official version of UNIX introduced was in ___.
1971
3. The command ___ is used to find a specified string of characters in a file.
grep
4. ___ is a family of IEEE standars that define a portable operating system inte
rface...
POSIX
5. For multiprogramming systems, most UNIX operating systems use either ___ mana
gement....
swapping or demand paging memory
6. UNIX uses a ___ to keep track of which processes are using which program code
, and the....
text table
7. UNIX uses the ___ page replacement algorithm.
least recently used
8. When the UNIX processor Manager is deciding which process from the READY queu
e will be,,,,,
with the longest time spent on the secondary storage
9. in UNIX, a ___ table is allocated to each active process.
user
10. A ___ may occur if an event happens during the process's transition between
deciding to....
race
11. The ___ command allows the programmer to synchronize process execution by su
spending...
wait
12. There is no return from a successful ___ call.
exec
13. Subroutines that work with the operating system to supervise the transmissio
n of data....
device drivers
14. in UNIX, the file ___ contains the parameters that control resources such as
the number of....
conf.c
15. When using a terminal, as the user types in each character, it is collected
in the ___
raw input
16. ___ are the device drivers that provide the interface to I/O hardware.
Special files
17. The UNIX file management system organizes the disk into blocks of 512 bytes
each and....
reserved for booting
18. Using ___ in a path name will move you upward in the hierarchy.
..
19. The maximum number of bytes that can be allocated to a single file in UNIX i
s ___.
1,082,201,088
20. The ___ command is used to delete a file or directory.
rm
21. The following command ___, will copy the contents of chapt1 and chapt2 into
a file named sectiona.
cat chapt1 chapt2 > sectiona
22. The following command ___ will store the names of all users logged on to the
system in the file called temporary.
who > temporary
23. A ___ is several programs simultaneously processing the same I/O stream.
pipeline
24. If a program's execution is expected to take a long time, you can start its
execution and then....
nohup
25. The command ___ is used to lower the priority of a process.
nice
26. ___ was initially responsible for the popularity of MS-DOS.
IBM
27. ___ directories was/were supported by version 1.0 of MS-DOS.
1
28. Although MS-DOS is no longer widly used, many windows operating systems offe
r a ___.....
DOS emulator
29. The portion of DOS that users interact with is ___.
COMMAND.COM
30. The DOS kernel is read into memory at initialization time from the ___ file
residing in the ....
MSDOS.SYS
31. The ___ operating system was developed by IBM and microsoft to replace MS-DO
S.
OS/2
32. The Memory Manager uses a ___ memory allocation scheme.
First-fit
33. ___ is usually very small in size and contains a program, a section of BIOS,
with the sole task of starting up the system.
ROM
34. The ___ version of MS-DOS began to support dynamic memory allocation.
2.0
35. Programs with the ___ extension are given all of the TPA, whether or not the
y need it.
COM
36. When a block is formed its first five bytes contain information about the bl
ock, the ___ is contained in byte zero if it is the last block.
ASCII 90h
37. If a block contains four paragraphs and is the first of two blocks, then its
code would be ___.
7700000004h
38. A personal computer has ___ interrupts and interrupt handlers.
256
39. ___ interrupts are generated by certain events occurring during a program's
execution, such as division by zero.
Internal hardware
40. A ___ interrupt handler's function is to terminate a process without releas
ing its memory, thus providing memory-resident programming facilities.
Terminate and Stay Resident
41. BIOS is stored in ___.
ROM and RAM
42. The name for a device driver that can be incorporated into the operating sys
tem as needed without having to patch or change the existing operating system is
___.
installable
43. In the MS-DOS file management scheme, the symbol ___ follows the drive name.
:
44. A file's relative name consists of its ___.
primary name and extension
45. There are ___ disk sectors grouped into a cluster.
two to eight
46. Every time the CPU is powered up or is reset, the commands in the ___ file a
re executed automatically by the system.
AUTOEXEC.BAT
47. The ___ contains status information about the disk's sectors that are alloca
ted, free, and can't be allocated because of formatting errors.
File Allocation Table
48. ___ is the append symbol.
>>
49. A(n) ___ can cause the standard output from one command to be used as standa
rd input to another command; its symbol is a vertical bar (|).
pipe
50. The ___ command allows the user to set up a series of files for printing whi
le freezing up COMMAND.COM to accept other commands.
PRINT

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