Operating System Solved Objective QuestionsBy: Prof. Dr. Fazal Rehman | Last updated: May 30, 2025 12 Score: 0 Attempted: 0/12 Subscribe 1. What does thrashing do with the CPU utilization? (A) Decreases (B) Increases (C) Keeps constant (D) None 2. Which operations does an IPC facility provide? (A) Write & delete message (B) Receive & send message (C) Delete & receive message (D) Send & delete message 3. Which system call creates the new process in UNIX operating system? (A) New (B) Create (C) Fork (D) None of the above 4. What is meant by locality? (A) A set of pages that are actively used together (B) An area near a set of processes (C) A space in memory (D) None of these 5. What is the size of the messages sent by a process? (A) Have to be a variable size (B) Can be fixed or variable sized (C) Have to be of a fixed size (D) None of the mentioned 6. How can a process be terminated? (A) Killed by another process (B) Fatal error (C) Normal exit (D) All of the above 7. When a subroutine is called, ____________________ (A) It does not define a new locality (B) It is in the same locality from where it was called (C) It defines a new locality (D) None of the mentioned 8. What is a link called when it sends and receives messages between two processes? (A) Synchronization link (B) Communication link (C) Message-passing link (D) All of the mentioned 9. _____________________ is called the ready state of a process: (A) When the process is unable to run until some task has been completed (B) When the process is scheduled to run after some execution (C) When the process is using the CPU (D) None of the mentioned 10. A program is composed of many different localities, which _____ overlap. (A) Must (B) Must not (C) Do not (D) May 11. Which one is the TRUE statement for direct communication? (A) Exactly two links exist between each pair of processes (B) A communication link can be associated with N number of processes (N = max. number of processes supported by the system) (C) Exactly N/2 links exist between each pair of processes (N = max. number of processes supported by the system) (D) A communication link can be associated with exactly two processes 12. ______________ is called interprocess communication. (A) Communication between two threads of the same process (B) Communication within the process (C) Communication between two processes (D) None of these Related Posts:Operating systems (OS), Examples of operating systems, Advantages of operating systemsUnix Operating system solved MCQ’s Questions AnswersMacroeconomics objective QuestionsSoftware Architecture Objective Questions AnswersApplied Physics important Objective questions answers - MCQsComputer Graphics Objective Questions Answers