Operating System Practice Question

An ____________ acts as intermediary between a user and the computer.

• Operating System
• Multiple users
• machine language
• computer hardware

A type of operating system that will only have a single user at any given time is ______________.

• multiuser systems
• Single user systems
• three user systems
• null user systems

An operating system that allows multiple users on different computers or terminals to access a single system is known as ______________.

• application systems
• Single user systems
• multiuser systems
• null user systems

A _________________ is the operating system which analyzes your i/p and groups them into batches

• Batch operating system
• Single user systems
• multiuser systems
• null user systems

systems that allows multiple users to interact with a computer,an equal time slice to interact with the CPU, at the same time are known as__________.

• Batch operating system
• Single user systems
• application systems
• Time sharing systems

In __________, more than one user shares the CPU and the CPU rapidly switches from one user to another, providing a complete transparency from each other.

• Batch operating system
• Multiprogramming
• Multitasking
• Multiswitching

In __________, more than one program shares the CPU and the CPU rapidly switches from one program to another.

• Batch operating system
• Multiprogramming
• Multitasking
• Multiswitching

The ____________ systems distribute the computation among several physical processors.

• Batch operating system
• Multiprogramming
• Multitasking
• Distributed System

SPOOLING stands for ________.

• Simultaneous Peripheral Operations Online
• Similar Peripheral Operations Online
• Simultaneous Periodical Operations Online
• Simultaneous Peripheral Operations Offline

A process in which data is temporarily held to be used and executed by a device, program, or system is known as ____________.

• SPOOLING
• CALLING
• FETCHING
• READING