Question

1. An operating system is

a. A resource manager

b. A user application such as turbo t

c. A collection of all software packages on the computer

d. Another name of my computer including both hardware and software

2. X86 calling convention is about

a. How parameters are transferred through stack

b. How interrupt vectors are used to find handlers

c. How to make a phone call on an x86 computer

d. None of the above

3. Paging mechanisms helps to translate logical addresses into

a. Program addresses

b. Stack

c. Physical addresses

d. Street addresses

4. A process in the memory has

a. Data section

b. Text section

c. Stack section

d. All of the above

5. To support parallel execution, we need

a. Exactly one processor (core)

b. At least two processors (cores)

c. At least three processor (cores)

d. It does not matter how many processor (core) we have

6. In an operating system, sockets are for

a. Power plugs;

b. Phone jacks;

c. Cable TV;

d. IPC

7. System calls are implemented using

a. Software interrupt or syscall instructions

b. DMA operations

c. Hardware interrupts

d. None of the above

Answer 1