Operating System MCQs
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By using the specific system call, we can ____________
File type can be represented by ____________
Which file is a sequence of bytes organized into blocks understandable by the system’s linker?
What is the mounting of file system?
Mapping of network file system protocol to local file system is done by ____________
Which one of the following explains the sequential file access method?
When will file system fragmentation occur?
Management of metadata information is done by ____________
A file control block contains the information about ____________
Which table contains the information about each mounted volume?
To create a new file application program calls ____________
What will happens when a process closes the file?
What is raw disk?
In which type of allocation method each file occupy a set of contiguous block on the disk?
If the block of free-space list is free then bit will ____________
Which protocol establishes the initial logical connection between a server and a client?
Data cannot be written to secondary storage unless written within a ______
File attributes consist of ____________
The information about all files is kept in ____________
A file is a/an _______ data type.
The operating system keeps a small table containing information about all open files called ____________
In UNIX, what will the open system call return?
The open file table has a/an _______ associated with each file.
Which of the following are the two parts of the file name?
The UNIX sytem uses a/an ________ stored at the beginning of a some files to indicate roughly the type of file.
The larger the block size, the ______ the internal fragmentation.
In the sequential access method, information in the file is processed ____________
Sequential access method ______ on random access devices.
The direct access method is based on a ______ model of a file, as _____ allow random access to any file block.
For a direct access file ____________
The index contains ____________
For large files, when the index itself becomes too large to be kept in memory?
To organise file systems on disk _______________
The directory can be viewed as a _________ that translates file names into their directory entries.
What will happen in the single level directory?
What will happen in the single level directory?
What will happen in the two level directory structure?
When a user job starts in a two level directory system, or a user logs in _____________
What is the disadvantage of the two level directory structure?
In the tree structured directories _____________
The current directory contains, most of the files that are _____________
Which of the following are the types of Path names?
An absolute path name begins at the _____________
A relative path name begins at the _____________
In a tree structure, when deleting a directory that is not empty?
When two users keep a subdirectory in their own directories, the structure being referred to is _____________
A tree structure ______ the sharing of files and directories.
With a shared file _____________
The operating system _______ the links when traversing directory trees, to preserve the acyclic structure of the system.
The deletion of a link ________ the original file.