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Introduction to OS

The document contains a quiz on Operating Systems fundamentals with 20 questions covering various topics such as system calls, file management, memory management, and the structure of UNIX. Each question presents multiple-choice answers, testing knowledge on key concepts related to operating systems. The quiz is designed to assess understanding of essential operating system functionalities and characteristics.

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Introduction to OS

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Opera&ng Systems Fundamentals

Lesson 1. Quiz

Answer:

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Ques1ons

1 - What characterizes an Operating System the most?


a) System calls
b) Command interpreter
c) The shell
d) Commands
2 - What information about a file is NOT returned in the struct stat by the STAT call?
a) The file size
b) The name of the file
c) The type of file
d) The date of the last access to the file.
3 - What service ends the execution of a process?
a) return
b) end
c) finish
d) exit
4 - Which service duplicates the process that invokes the callF
a) exec
b) clone
c) fork
d) creat
5 - What descriptor predefines standard output?
a) 0
b) 1
c) 2
d) 3
6 - What service allows to create a filesec
a) mkfile
b) read
c) touch
d) creat
7 - Which service allows to modify the attributes for an open file
a) fnclt
b) chmod
c) attribute
d) fstat
8 - How does a microkernel tell a handler that an interrupt has occurred?
a) Using a shared variable.
b) A message.
c) A semaphore
d) A condition variable
9 - The UNIX operating system has a structure
a) Layered
b) virtual machines
c) Monolithic
d) Client-Server
10 - What system call can be invoked with a variable number of arguments?
a) fork
b) write
c) creat
d) None of them
11 - What is false about the EXEC system call?
a) Change the memory image of a process
b) Allows passing arguments to the called program
c) Change the identifier of the process
d) Keeps descriptors open.
12 - What feature is not a requirement of an OS's memory management system?0sec
a) relocation
b) sharing
c) memory allocation
d) Virtual to physical address translation.
13 - Choose the correct statement related to the bootstrap program:
a) Typically stored in the RAM, generally known as firmware.
b) It is loaded only in the reboot.
c) Loads the opera_ng system the kernel and the user applica_ons
d) None of the above.
14 - Where does the OS load a program before execu_ng it?
a) EPROM
b) ROM
c) RAM
d) Any Storage Device.
15 - What do we understand as a trap when referring to opera_ng system opera_ons?
a) An infinite loop from which you cannot exit.
b) A sec_on of code which is not performing as intended.
c) A request from the user program.
d) None of the above
16 - Which are the main advantages of the usage of mul_processor systems?
a) Less throughput, more reliability, less cost.
b) Greater throughput
c) Greater throughput, easier to implement, less cost.
d) None of the above.
17 - Which one of the following can be considered part of the opera_ng system?
a) kernel and file manager
b) kernel and web browser
c) file manager without kernel
d) none of the above
18 - Which of the following tasks is performed by the kernel?
a) Memory management.
b) Scheduling tasks for the CPU to run.
c) File management.
d) All previous answers are correct.
19 - Select the correct statement about the bootstrap:
a) It is the program loaded at the startup of the computer that ini_alizes the opera_ng
system.
b) It is located in a random address in the main memory of the computer.
c) It is a program that determines the type of interrupt in the interrupt handling proccess.
d) It is always saved in a SRAM
20 - Which one of the following defini_on describes a program correctly:
a) a program is the same as a process
b) a program is an ac_ve en_ty being executed in the cpu
c) a program is a passive en_ty stored in files
d) a program contains only one process

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