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Chapter: Chapter 1

Multiple Choice

• In what way is an operating system like a government?
• It seldom functions correctly.
• It creates an environment within which other programs can do useful work.
• It performs most useful functions by itself.
• It is always concerned primarily with the individual's needs.

Ans: B

Section 1.1

Difficulty: Easy

• ____ operating systems are designed primarily to maximize resource utilization.
• PC
• Handheld computer
• Mainframe
• Network

Ans: C

Feedback: 1.1.1

Difficulty: Easy

• The most common secondary storage device is ____.
• random access memory
• solid state disks
• tape drives
• magnetic disk

Ans: D

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Feedback: 1.2.2

Difficulty: Easy

• Which of the following would lead you to believe that a given system is an SMP-type

system?

• Each processor is assigned a specific task.
• There is a boss–worker relationship between the processors.
• Each processor performs all tasks within the operating system.
• None of the above

Ans: C

Feedback: 1.3.2

Difficulty: Medium

• A ____ can be used to prevent a user program from never returning control to the operating

system.

• portal
• program counter
• firewall
• timer

Ans: D

Feedback: 1.5.2

Difficulty: Medium

• Embedded computers typically run on a ____ operating system.
• real-time
• Windows XP
• network
• clustered

Ans: A

Feedback: 1.11.8

Difficulty: Medium

• Bluetooth and 802.11 devices use wireless technology to communicate over several feet, in

essence creating a ____.

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• wide-area network
• small-area network
• metropolitan-area network

Ans: C

Feedback: 1.11.3

Difficulty: Easy

• A clustered system ____.
• gathers together multiple CPUs to accomplish computational work
• is an operating system that provides file sharing across a network
• is used when rigid time requirements are present
• can only operate one application at a time

Ans: A

Feedback: 1.3.3

Difficulty: Easy

• Which of the following is a property of peer-to-peer systems?
• Clients and servers are not distinguished from one another.
• Separate machines act as either the client of the server but not both.
• They do not offer any advantages over traditional client-server systems.
• They suffer from the server acting as the bottleneck in performance.

Ans: A

Feedback: 1.11.5

Difficulty: Easy

• Two important design issues for cache memory are ____.
• speed and volatility
• size and replacement policy
• power consumption and reusability
• size and access privileges

Ans: B

Feedback: 1.8.3

Difficulty: Medium

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• What are some other terms for kernel mode?
• supervisor mode
• system mode
• privileged mode
• All of the above

Ans: D

Feedback: 1.5.1

Difficulty: Easy

• Which of the following statements concerning open source operating systems is true?
• Solaris is open source.
• Source code is freely available.
• They are always more secure than commercial, closed systems.
• All open source operating systems share the same set of goals.

Ans: B

Feedback: 1.12

Difficulty: Medium

• Which of the following operating systems is not open source?
• Windows

B) BSD UNIX

• Linux
• PCLinuxOS

Ans: A

Feedback: 1.12

Difficulty: Medium

• A _____ provides a file-system interface which allows clients to create and modify files.
• compute-server system
• file-server system
• wireless network
• network computer

Ans: B

Difficulty: Easy

Feedback: 1.11.4

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