In which addressing mode the contents of a register specified in the instruction are first decremented, and then these contents are used as the effective address of the operands?
A. index addressing
B. indirect addressing
C. auto increment
D. auto decrement
E. None of the above
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What is the name given to the values that are automatically provided by software to reduce keystrokes and improve a computer user's productivity?
A. Defined values
B. Fixed values
C. Default values
D. Special values
E. None of the above
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Page stealing . . . . . . .
A. is a sign of an efficient system
B. is taking page frames from other working sets
C. should be the tuning goal
D. is taking larger disk spaces for pages paged out
E. None of the above
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In MS-DOS 5.0, which is the number that acts as a code to uniquely identify the software product?
A. MS
B. DOS
C. MS DOS
D. 5.0
E. None of the above
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Bug means
A. A logical error in a program
B. A difficult syntax error in a program
C. Documenting programs using an efficient documentation tool
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
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Memory management is :
A. not used in modern operating system
B. replaced with virtual memory on current systems
C. not used on multiprogramming systems
D. critical for even the simplest operating systems
E. None of the above
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The initial value of the semaphore that allows only one of the many processes to enter their critical sections, is
A. 8
B. 1
C. 16
D. 0
E. None of the above
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The Register - to - Register (RR) instructions
A. have both their operands in the main store.
B. which perform an operation on a register operand and an operand which is located in the main store, generally leaving the result in the register, except in the case of store operation when it is also
C. which perform indicated operations on two fast registers of the machine and leave the result in one of the registers.
D. all of the above
E. None of the above
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A page fault
A. is an error is a specific page
B. occurs when a program accesses a page of memory
C. is an access to a page not currently in memory
D. is a reference to a page belonging to another program
E. None of the above
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An algorithm is best described as
A. A computer language
B. A step by step procedure for solving a problem
C. A branch of mathematics
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
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The process of transferring data intended for a peripheral device into a disk (or intermediate store) so that it can be transferred to peripheral at a more convenient time or in bulk, is known as
A. multiprogramming
B. spooling
C. caching
D. virtual programming
E. None of the above
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Block caches or buffer caches are used
A. to improve disk performance
B. to handle interrupts
C. to increase the capacity of the main memory
D. to speed up main memory read operation
E. None of the above
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Which of the following statements is false?
A. a small page size causes large page tables
B. internal fragmentation is increased with small pages
C. a large page size causes instructions and data that will not be referenced brought into primary storage
D. I/O transfers are more efficient with large pages
E. None of the above
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The action of parsing the source program into the proper syntactic classes is known as
A. syntax analysis
B. lexical analysis
C. interpretation analysis
D. general syntax analysis
E. None of the above
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Which, of the following is not true about the description of a decision table?
A. A decision table is easy to modify
B. A decision table is directly understood by the computer
C. A decision table is easy to understand
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
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Trojan-Horse programs
A. are legitimate programs that allow unauthorized access
B. do not usually work
C. are hidden programs that do not show up on the system
D. usually are immediately discovered
E. None of the above
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When did IBM release the first version of disk operating system DOS version 1.0?
A. 1981
B. 1982
C. 1983
D. 1984
E. None of the above
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Which of the following is false about disk when compared to main memory?
A. non-volatile
B. longer storage capacity
C. lower price per bit
D. faster
E. None of the above
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Producer consumer problem can be solved using
A. semaphores
B. event counters
C. monitors
D. all of the above
E. none of the above
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Most of the microcomputer's operating systems like Apple DOS, MS DOS and PC DOS etc. are called disk operating systems because
A. they are memory resident
B. they are initially stored on disk
C. they are available on magnetic tapes
D. they are partly in primary memory and partly on disk
E. None of the above
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