ISRO CS 2007

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Question 1

A task in a blocked state

  • A

    is executable

  • B

    is running

  • C

    must still be placed in the run queues

  • D

    is waiting for some temporarily unavailable resources

Question 2

Round Robin schedule is essentially the pre-emptive version of

  • A

    FIFO

  • B

    Shortest job first

  • C

    Shortest remaining time

  • D

    Longest remaining time

Question 3

What is the name of the technique in which the operating system of a computer executes several programs concurrently by switching back and forth between them?

  • A

    Partitioning

  • B

    Multi-tasking

  • C

    Windowing

  • D

    Paging

Question 4

Consider a set of n tasks with known runtimes r1, r2....rn to be run on a uniprocessor machine. Which of the following processor scheduling algorithms will result in the maximum throughput?

  • A

    Round Robin

  • B

    Shortest job first

  • C

    Highest response ratio next

  • D

    first come first served

Question 5

Feedback queues

  • A

    are very simple to implement

  • B

    dispatch tasks according to execution characteristics

  • C

    are used to favour real time tasks

  • D

    require manual intervention to implement properly

Question 6

On a system using non-preemptive scheduling, processes with expected run times of 5, 18, 9 and 12 are in the ready queue. In what order should they be run to minimize wait time?

  • A

    5, 12, 9, 18

  • B

    5, 9, 12, 18

  • C

    12, 18, 9, 5

  • D

    9, 12, 18, 5

Question 7

Bit stuffing refers to

  • A

    inserting a 0 in user stream to differentiate it with a flag

  • B

    inserting a 0 in flag stream to avoid ambiguity

  • C

    appending a nipple to the flag sequence

  • D

    appending a nipple to the use data stream

Question 8

Assume that each character code consists of 8 bits. The number of characters that can be transmitted per second through an synchronous serial line at 2400 baud rate, and with two stop bits is

  • A

    109

  • B

    216

  • C

    300

  • D

    219

Question 9

IEEE 802.11 is standard for

  • A

    Ethernet

  • B

    Bluetooth

  • C

    Broadband Wireless

  • D

    Wireless LANs

Question 10

An Ethernet hub

  • A

    functions as a repeater

  • B

    connects to a digital PBX

  • C

    connects to a token-ring network

  • D

    functions as a gateway

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