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What is Throughput, Turnaround time, waiting time and Response time?

Answer

Throughput : number of processes that complete their execution per time unit.

Turnaround time : amount of time to execute a particular process.

Waiting time : amount of time a process has been waiting in the ready queue.

Response time : amount of time it takes from when a request was submitted until the firstresponse is produced, not output (for time-sharing environment).

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Subject: Operating Systems

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If an unbiased dice is rolled once, the odds in favour of getting a point which is multiple of 3 is:

A) 1/2 B) 2/1
C) 1/3 D) 3/1
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 1/3

Explanation:

Total number =6

Getting a 'multiple of 3' = 2 . So, probability = 2/6 =1/3

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Explain the concept of the batched operating systems?

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In batched operating system the users gives their jobs to the operator who sorts the programs according to their requirements and executes them. This is time consuming but makes the CPU busy all the time.

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Why paging is used?

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Paging is solution to external fragmentation problem which is to permit the logical address space of a process to be noncontiguous, thus allowing a process to be allocating physical memory wherever the latter is available.

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What is an operating system?

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An operating system is a program that acts as an intermediary between the user and the computer hardware. The purpose of an OS is to provide a convenient environment in which user can execute programs in a convenient and efficient manner. It is a resource allocator responsible for allocating system resources and a control program which controls the operation of the computer hardware.

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What are DDks? Name an operating system that includes this feature.

Answer

DDks are device driver kits, which are equivalent to SDKs for writing device drivers. Windows NT includes DDks.

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What are rings in Windows NT?

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Windows NT uses protection mechanism called rings provides by the process to implement separation between the user mode and kernel mode.

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If a card is drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards,what is the chance of getting a spade or ace?

A) 0.25 B) 5/13
C) 0.20 D) 4/13
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 4/13

Explanation:

Number of spades in a standard deck of cards=13
Number of aces in a standard deck of cards=4
And,one of the aces is a spade.
So, 13 + 4 - 1 = 16 spades or aces to choose from.
Therfore,probabiltiy of getting a spade or an ace=16/52=4/13

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