Operating System

Operating System - Self Assessment 19 questions

#1
What is an operating system?
#2
Can you explain what is a process?
#3
If you had to design an API for processes in an operating system, what would this API look like?
#4
How a process is created?
#5
True or False? The loading of the program into the memory is done eagerly (all at once)
#6
What are different states of a process?
#7
What are some reasons for a process to become blocked?
#8
What is Inter Process Communication (IPC)?
#9
What is "time sharing"?
#10
What is "space sharing"?
#11
What component determines which process runs at a given moment in time?
#12
What is "virtual memory" and what purpose does serve?
#13
What is demand paging?
#14
What is copy-on-write?
#15
What is a kernel, and what does it do?
#16
True or False? Some pieces of the code in the kernel are loaded into protected areas of the memory so applications can't overwrite them.
#17
What is POSIX?
#18
Explain what Semaphore is and what its role in operating systems.
#19
What is cache? What is buffer?