Q.1

Which of the following statements is false?

  • the technique of storage compaction involves moving all occupied areas of storage to one end or other of main storage
  • compaction does not involve relocation of programs
  • compaction is also know as garbage collection
  • the system must stop everything while it performs the compaction
  • None of the above
Q.2

While running DOS on a PC, which command would be used to duplicate the entire diskette?

  • COPY
  • DISKCOPY
  • CHKDSK
  • TYPE
  • None of the above
Q.3

While working with MS-DOS, which command will you use to transfer a specific file from one disk to another?

  • DISKCOPY
  • COPY
  • RENAME
  • FORMAT
  • None of the above
Q.4

In MS-DOS 5.which is the number that acts as a code to uniquely identify the software product?

  • MS
  • DOS
  • MS DOS
  • 5.0
  • None of the above
Q.5

What is the name given to the organized collection of software that controls the overall operation of a computer?

  • Working system
  • Peripheral system
  • Operating system
  • Controlling system
  • None of the above
Q.6

Fragmentation of the file system

  • occurs only if the file system is used improperly
  • can always be prevented
  • can be temporarily removed by compaction
  • is a characteristic of all file systems
  • None of the above
Q.7

Fork is

  • the dispatching of a task
  • the creation of a new job
  • the creation of a new process
  • increasing the priority of a task
  • None of the above
Q.8

Addressing structure

  • defines the fundamental method of determining effective operand addresses
  • are variations in the use of fundamental addressing structures, or some associated actions which are related to addressing.
  • performs indicated operations on two fast registers of the machine and leave the result in one of the registers.
  • all of the above
  • None of the above
Q.9

Interprocess communication

  • is required for all processes
  • is usually done via disk drives
  • is never necessary,
  • allows processes to synchronize activity
Q.10

Memory

  • is a device that performs a sequence of operations specified by instructions in memory.
  • is the device where information is stored
  • is a sequence of instructions
  • is typically characterized by interactive processing and time-slicing of the CPU's time to allow quick response to each user.
  • None of the above
Q.11

What is the name of the operating system for the laptop computer called MacLite?

  • Windows
  • DOS
  • MS-DOS
  • OZ
  • None of the above
Q.12

Bug means

  • A logical error in a program
  • A difficult syntax error in a program
  • Documenting programs using an efficient documentation tool
  • All of the above
  • None of the above
Q.13

The principle of locality of reference justifies the use of

  • reenterable
  • non reusable
  • virtual memory
  • cache memory
  • None of the above
Q.14

A non-relocatable program is one which

  • cannot be made to execute in any area of storage other than the one designated for it at the time of its coding or translation.
  • consists of a program and relevant information for its relocation.
  • can itself performs the relocation of its address-sensitive portions.
  • all of the above
  • None of the above
Q.15

Which of the following functions is(are) performed by the loader

  • allocate space in memory for the programs and resolve symbolic references between object decks
  • adjust all address dependent locations, such as address constants, to correspond to the allocated space.
  • physically place the machine instructions and data into memory.
  • All of the above
  • None of the above
Q.16

Which of the following rules out the use of GO TO?

  • Flowchart
  • HIPO-DIAGRAMS
  • Nassi-Shneiderman diagram
  • All of the above
  • None of the above
Q.17

In which addressing mode the contents of a register specified in the instruction are first decremented, and then these contents are used as the effective address of the operands?

  • index addressing
  • indirect addressing
  • auto increment
  • auto decrement
  • None of the above
Q.18

Memory management is :

  • not used in modern operating system
  • replaced with virtual memory on current systems
  • not used on multiprogramming systems
  • critical for even the simplest operating systems
  • None of the above
Q.19

The register or main memory location which contains the effective address of the operand is known as

  • pointer
  • indexed register
  • special location
  • scratch pad
  • None of the above
Q.20

Which of the following are(is) Language Processor(s)

  • assembles
  • compilers
  • interpreters
  • All of the above
  • None of the above
Q.21

Supervisor state is

  • never used
  • entered by programs when they enter the processor
  • required to perform any I/O
  • only allowed to the operating system
  • None of the above
Q.22

Seeks analysis

  • is used for analyzing paging problems
  • is used for analyzing device busy problems
  • is used for analyzing control-unit busy problems
  • is only shown on real-time displays
  • None of the above
Q.23

A translator which reads an entire programme written in a high level language and converts it into machine language code is:

  • assembler
  • translator
  • compiler
  • system software
  • None of the above
Q.24

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

  • preemptive scheduling
  • non preemptive scheduling
  • shortest job first
  • first come first served
  • None of the above
Q.25

User-Friendly Systems are:

  • required for object-oriented programming
  • easy to develop
  • common among traditional mainframe operating systems
  • becoming more common
  • None of the above
Q.26

A system program that sets up an executable program in main memory ready for execution is

  • assembler
  • linker
  • loader
  • compiler
  • None of the above
Q.27

What is the name given to the values that are automatically provided by software to reduce keystrokes and improve a computer user's productivity?

  • Defined values
  • Fixed values
  • Default values
  • Special values
  • None of the above
Q.28

Assembly code data base is associated with

  • assembly language version of the program which is created by the code generation phase and is input to the assembly phase.
  • a permanent table of decision rules in the form of patterns for matching with the uniform symbol table to discover syntactic structure.
  • consists of a full or partial list or the token's as they appear in the program. Created by Lexical analysis and used for syntax analysis and interpretation.
  • a permanent table which lists all key words and special symbols of the language in symbolic form.
  • None of the above
Q.29

In which addressing mode the effective address of the operand is the contents of a register specified in the instruction and after accessing the operand, the contents of this register is incremented to point to the next item in the list?

  • index addressing
  • indirect addressing
  • auto increment
  • auto decrement
  • None of the above
Q.30

What is the name given to the process of initializing a microcomputer with its operating system?

  • Cold booting
  • Booting
  • Warm booting
  • Boot recording
  • None of the above
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