Operating System Interview Questions

Operating System Quiz

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Your welcome to this quick Basic Operating System GK Quiz. It has important twenty basic questions about various Operating System topics.

Complete Operating System Mcq Quiz

1. Dual mode of operating system has?

A. 1 mode

B. 4 modes

C. 2 modes

D. 3 modes

View Answer
C. Cascading Style Sheets


2. Multi-processor system gives a?

A. Loosely Coupled System

B. Tightly Coupled System

C. Small System

D. Both A and B

View Answer
C. Cascading Style Sheets


3. Logical extension of multi-programming operating system is?

A. Single Programming

B. Time Sharing

C. multi-tasking

D. Both C and B

View Answer
C. Cascading Style Sheets


4. Multiprocessor system have advantage of?

A. Expensive hardware

B. Increased Throughput

C. operating system

D. Both A and B

View Answer
B. Increased Throughput


5. Scheduling of threads are done by?

A. Input

B. Output

C. Operating System

D. Memory

View Answer
C. operating system


6. Multi-programming of computer system increases?

A. CPU utilization

B. Storage

C. Memory

D. Cost

View Answer
A. CPU utilization


7. Another type of multiple-CPU system is the?

A. Mini Computer

B. Clustered System

C. Super Computer

D. Both C and B

View Answer
B. Clustered System


8. Interrupt table of pointers having addresses for each interrupt is located at?

A. Low memory

B. High memory

C. Mid memory

D. Both A and B

View Answer
A. Low memory


9. Example of open source operating system is?

A. UNIX

B. Linux

C. Windows

D. Both A and B

View Answer
D. Both A and B


10. Main memory of computer system is also called?

A. Non-Volatile

B. Large

C. Reserved

D. Volatile

View Answer
D. Volatile


11. Controller of computer system transfers data from device to?

A. Buffers

B. Cache

C. Registers

D. Indexes

View Answer
A. Buffers


12. When many users accesses mainframes, this approach is called as?

A. Resource allocation

B. Word processors

C. Dedicated resources

D. Interface

View Answer
A. Resource allocation


13. Accessing same data from storage of computer system is provided by?

A. Serial clusters

B. Parallel clusters

C. Beowulf clusters

D. Both A and B

View Answer
B. Parallel clusters


14. To start an I/O operation device driver loads appropriate register into?

A. Arrays

B. Memory

C. Device Controller

D. Secondary storage

View Answer
C. Device Controller


15. Symmetric Multiprocessing architecture of computer system uses shared?

A. Bus

B. Memory

C. Processors

D. Both A and B

View Answer
D. Both A and B


16. In asymmetric clustering other machines perform operations while one machine is in?

A. Hot standby mode

B. Standby mode

C. Reset mode

D. Undefined mode

View Answer
A. Hot standby mode


17. Ability to continuously providing service proportional to level of surviving hardware?

A. Graceful up-gradation

B. Up-gradation

C. Degradation

D. Graceful degradation

View Answer
D. Graceful degradation


18. Secondary memory of computer system is also called?

A. Non volatile

B. Volatile

C. Reserved

D. Small

View Answer
A. Non volatile


19. Environment in which programs of computer system are executed is?

A. Operating system

B. Nodes

C. Clustered system

D. Both A and B

View Answer
A. Operating system


20. One word memory storage is collection of?

A. 2 bytes

B. 4 bytes

C. 7 bytes

D. 8 bytes

View Answer
B. 4 bytes

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