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  1. A system program that combines the separately compiled modules of a program into a form suitable for execution

  2. A.

     assembler

    B.

     linking loader

    C.

     cross compiler

    D.

     load and go

    E.

     None of the above


  3. Process is

  4. A.

     program in High level language kept on disk

    B.

     contents of main memory

    C.

     a program in execution

    D.

     a job in secondary memory

    E.

     None of the above


  5. Addressing structure

  6. A.

     defines the fundamental method of determining effective operand addresses

    B.

     are variations in the use of fundamental addressing structures, or some associated actions which are related to addressing.

    C.

     performs indicated operations on two fast registers of the machine and leave the result in one of the registers.

    D.

     all of the above

    E.

     None of the above


  7. The Memory Buffer Register (MBR)

  8. A.

     is a hardware memory device which denotes the location of the current instruction being executed.

    B.

     is a group of electrical circuits (hardware), that performs the intent of instructions fetched from memory.

    C.

     contains the address of the memory location that is to be read from or stored into.

    D.

     contains a copy of the designated memory location specified by the MAR after a "read" or the new contents of the memory prior to a "write".

    E.

     None of the above


  9. The strategy of allowing processes that are logically runnable to be temporarily suspended is called

  10. A.

     preemptive scheduling

    B.

     non preemptive scheduling

    C.

     shortest job first

    D.

     first come first served

    E.

     None of the above


  11. The Storage-to-Storage instructions

  12. A.

     have both their operands in the main store.

    B.

     which perform an operation on a register operand and an operand which is located in the main store, generally leaving the result in the register, expect in the case of store operation when it is also

    C.

     which perform indicated operations on two fast registers of the machine and have the result in one of the registers

    D.

     all of the above

    E.

     None of the above


  13. The LRU algorithm

  14. A.

     pages out pages that have been used recently

    B.

     pages out pages that have not been used recently

    C.

     pages out pages that have been least used recently

    D.

     pages out the first page in a given area

    E.

     None of the above


  15. Which of the following systems software does the job of merging the records from two files into one?

  16. A.

     Security software

    B.

     Utility program

    C.

     Networking software

    D.

     Documentation system

    E.

     None of the above


  17. Fork is

  18. A.

     the dispatching of a task

    B.

     the creation of a new job

    C.

     the creation of a new process

    D.

     increasing the priority of a task

    E.

     None of the above


  19. Thrashing

  20. A.

     is a natural consequence of virtual memory systems

    B.

     can always be avoided by swapping

    C.

     always occurs on large computers

    D.

     can be caused by poor paging algorithms

    E.

     None of the above