What is Computer Awareness?
Computer Awareness, also known as Computer Aptitude is one of the prominent sections in various recruitment related competitive exams in India. IBPS Clerk Operating Systems Quiz 1 lists some of the important questions for the preparation of Computer Awareness module. The most significant topics to be learnt for Computer Awareness module are as follows:
1. To access the services of operating system, the interface is provided by the:
A. system calls
B. API
C. library
D. assembly instructions
Answer: Option A
2. Which one of the following error will be handled by the operating system?
A. power failure
B. lack of paper in printer
C. connection failure in the network
D. all of the mentioned
Answer: Option D
3. The main function of the command interpreter is:
A. to get and execute the next user-specified command
B. to provide the interface between the API and application program
C. to handle the files in operating system
D. none of the mentioned
Answer: Option A
4. By operating system, the resource management can be done via:
A. time division multiplexing
B. space division multiplexing
C. both (A) and (B)
D. none of the mentioned
Answer: Option C
5. If a process fails, most operating system write the error information to a:
A. log file
B. another running process
C. new file
D. none of the mentioned
1. Which facility dynamically adds probes to a running system, both in user processes and in the kernel?
A. DTrace
B. DLocate
C. DMAP
D. DAdd
Answer: Option A
2. Which one of the following is not a real-time operating system?
A. VxWorks
B. Windows CE
C. RTLinux
D. Palm OS
Answer: Option D
3. The OS X has:
A. monolithic kernel
B. hybrid kernel
C. microkernel
D. monolithic kernel with modules
Answer: Option B
4. What is the reusable resource?
A. that can be used by one process at a time and is not depleted by that use
B. that can be used by more than one process at a time
C. that can be shared between various threads
D. none of the mentioned
Answer: Option A
5. The circular wait condition can be prevented by:
A. defining a linear ordering of resource types
B. using thread
C. using pipes
D. all of the mentioned