Technical Questions

Q:

Which memory management technique involves dividing the memory into fixed sized blocks ?

A) Paging B) Scaling
C) Whiping D) Tracking
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Paging

Explanation:

Paging is a memory management technique in which process address space is broken into blocks of the same size called pages.

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Q:

Why address bus in unidirectional and data bus is bidirectional?

Answer

Because there is no need address traansaction between processor and peripheral device but data bus is needed because data has to be read and write

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Q:

Can I increase the size of a dynamically allocated array? < Yes / No> if yes, how?

Answer

Yes, using the realloc() function as shown below:


main()


{


        int *p;


        p = ( int *) malloc (20) ;


        t = p;


        t = (int *) realloc ( p, 40);


        if ( t == NULL )


        Printf (" Cannot reallocate, leaves previous allocated region unchanged ");


       else


       {


              if ( p ==t )


              ;  / * the array expanded at the same region */


             else


            { 


                 free ( p ); / * deallocate the original array */


                 p = t;  /* set p to newly allocated region */


             }


      }


}  

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Q:

 When an entity instance may be a member of multiple subtypes or it does not have to be a member of a subtype, it is which of the following?

A) Disjoint with total specialization B) Disjoint with partial specialization
C) Overlap with total specialization D) Overlap with partial specialization
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Overlap with total specialization

Explanation:
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Q:

Which among the following is a system call used for process management

A) fork() B) exec()
C) getppid() D) All the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) All the above

Explanation:

All the above listed are the System calls for process management

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Q:

getppid() system call is used to bias the existing priority of a process 

A) TRUE B) FALSE
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) FALSE

Explanation:

It is used to get parent process identifier

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Subject: Operating Systems
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Q:

Difference between bit rate and baud rate.?

Answer

Bit rate is the number of bits transmitted during one second whereas baud rate refers to the number of signal units per second that are required to represent those bits.


baud rate = bit rate / N


where N is no-of-bits represented by each signal shift.

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Q:

The coding or scrambling of data so that humans cannot read them, is known as _____.

A) Compression B) Encryption
C) Ergonomics D) Biometrics
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Encryption

Explanation:

The coding or scrambling of data so that humans cannot read them is known as encryption.

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