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PCUÆDL/MED5EM/24-2023

KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY
INSTITUTE OF DISTANCE LEARNING
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER
SCIENCE B.Sc. (Information
Technology)
(BIT 4)
SEMESTER ONE, MID-SEMESTER
2022/2023 CSM 483 OPERATING
SYSTEMS

March, 2023 30mins

INDEX
NUMBERCENTRE NAME
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS BY SHADING THE CORRECT ANSWER ON THE

SCANNABLE SHEET
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CAUTION: DO NOT TAKE AWAY ANY EXAMINATION MATERIAL
PROVIDED TO YOU.
1. The ROLE of the operating system is

basically to complement the 5. The core of the OPERATING

by providing a layer of SYSTEM is also known as the
services which manage the overall
computer resources. 1. Supervisor
11. Executive
a. Hardware 111. Monitor
b Software IV. Gatekeeper
c. Firmware
d. BIOS a. I & Il only
RAM 11 & 111 only
c. 111 & IV only
2. An example of a FIRMWARE is the d. 1 & IV only
e. None of the above

MS-DOS 6. In order to delimit the various jobs and

b. LINUX to specify what each job was to do,
c. UNIX special . . . cards were used to
d. OS/2 communicate with the operating system.
BIOS
a. Character
3. One can say that the layer of abstraction b. Object
between the OPERATING SYSTEM c. Language
and the USER is transparent to the user, d. Pattern
because the user is fully aware of this e. Batch
union.
This statement is 7. JOB CONTROL CARDS were an early
form of to the computer
a. True system.
b. False
a. User Interface
4. I lose my contents any time the power b. Human Interface
goes off. Am therefore classified to be c. System software
volatile. Who am 1? d. Application interface
e. Object-Oriented interface
a. Bootstrapping
b. BIOS 8. Having TWO OR MORE PROGRAMS
c. ROM in memory and they sharing the use of
d. Software the COMPUTER RESOURCES, but
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under the control of the OPERATING a. True
SYSTEM is referred to as .

a. Multitasking b. False
b. Parallel processing
12. On a computer system, the
c. Intel processing
BACKGROUND PROCESSES are
d. Multiprogramming
collectively known as
e. Dual processing
a. BIOS
9. The processor can be kept busy for
b. LINUX
most of the time by switching its
attention from one program to the next c. Operating windows
in rapid succession. The hardware Back Windows
facility that makes this possible is e. None of the above
known as
13. CPU bound jobs normally have high
proportion of CPU time while
a. Multitasking bound jobs use a high proportion of
b. Parallel processing Input/Output time.
c. Memory partitions
a. Object—oriented
d. Multiprogramming
b. Memory
e. Dual processing
c. Command line
10. Mixing jobs which differed in the d. Graphic User Interface(GUI)
balance of processor and Input/Output e. None of the above
activity leads to a higher
14. One can talk about THROUGHPUT in
a batch environment and talk about
a. Turnaround time RESPONSE TIME in a/an
environment.
b. Throughput
c. Response time
d. Processing time
1. Time sharing
e. None of the above
Il. Real time
111. Interactive
11. One may have both FOREGROUND
jobs and BACKGROUND jobs on the IV. Batch
same computer system. The former and
the latter have equal priority. This a. I & Il only
statement is b. 11 & 111 only
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c. 111 only a. I & Il only
d. I & IV only b. 11 & 111 only
e. 111 & IV only c. 1 & 111 only
15. Jobs started by an operator from a d. 11 & IV only
single console and run in succession e. None of the above
without operator intervention is said to
be running in the mode. 18. This technique is used to absorb surplus
processor time by performing
1. Real time Input/Output transfers. Input/output
11. Time sharing transfers were routed thru disk files
111. Interactive IV. (being a faster medium).
Batch
a. Cycle stealing
a. 1 & 11 only b. Partitioning
b. 11 & 111 only c. Spooling
c. 1 & IV only d. Object-Oriented
d. 11 & IV only e. Bootstrapping
e. None of the above

16. When one talks about the allocation of 19. A PRINTER QUEUE is different from
an OUTPUT SPOOL QUEUE. This
TIME SLICE to users then the one
should be talking about a/an statement is
system.
a. True
a. Batch b. False
b. Time sharing
c. Real time 20. Any device connected to the System
d. Operating Unit is known as a/an
e. Software
a. Queue
b. File
17. In the environments, users c. Output device
spend most of their time doing nothing. d. Peripheral
Consequently the computer is not in e. Bootstrapping
generally heavily tasked over a period
of time. 21. This technique facilitates the sharing of
devices such as printers among
1. Real time programs. This avoids the need for
11. Time sharing these programs to compete for these
111. Interactive IV. devices.
Batch
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1. Partitioning
11. Cycle stealing
111. Spooling
IV. Object-oriented
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developed in
August 1981
as a simple
single user
system. My
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that time
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