Technical Questions

Testing is a process used for revealing defects in s/w and for establishing that the s/w has attained a specific degree of quality.

The s/w testing group’s main objective is to ensure that the s/w is doing what it is supposed to do as well as the s/w is not doing what it is not supposed to do. With this objective, it is clear that it is necessary to have a separate group for testing the s/w other than the group which developed it.

Also, bugs in the s/w can cause severe monetary as well as other loss to the organization. So it is important to allocate some budget for the testing group.

The Quality Factor is also defined, as Q. So it is a number, which reflects the lossness of a circuit. higher the Q, the lower are the losses.

the quality factor is measurement of efficiency (or effectiveness) of a device or circuitry. In literal sense quality factor means qualitative performance of a device.

Distributed systems work in a network. They can share the network resources,communicate with each other.

Floating gate avalanche injection MOS (FAMOS) transistor is used in each cell of EPROM.

1. Mutual exclusion (where at least one resource is non-sharable)

2. Hold and wait (where a process holds one resource and waits for other resource)

3. No preemption (where the resources can’t be preempted)

4. Circular wait (where p[i] is waiting for p[j] to release a resource. i= 1,2,…n

j=if (i!=n) then i+1

else 1 )

Interior gateways connect LANs of one organization, whereas exterior gateways connect the organization to the outside world.

Hardware device that maps virtual to physical address. In MMU scheme, the value in the relocation register is added to every address generated by a user process at the time it is sent to memory.

->The user program deals with logical addresses; it never sees the real physical addresses

It is the transfer of sufficient amount of the state of process from one machine to the target machine.