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The Memory Buffer Register (MBR)
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A. is a hardware memory device which denotes the location of the current instruction being executed.
B. is a group of electrical circuits (hardware), that performs the intent of instructions fetched from memory.
C. contains the address of the memory location that is to be read from or stored into.
D. contains a copy of the designated memory location specified by the MAR after a "read" or the new contents of the memory prior to a "write".
E. None of the above
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contains a copy of the designated memory location specified by the MAR after a "read" or the new contents of the memory prior to a "write".
Operating Systems Concepts problems
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1. The part of machine level instruction, which tells the central processor what has to be done, is
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A. Operation code
B. Address
C. Locator
D. Flip-Flop
E. None of the above
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Correct Answer: Operation code
2. Which of the following addressing modes, facilitates access to an operand whose location is defined relative to the beginning of the data structure in which it appears?
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A. ascending
B. sorting
C. index
D. indirect
E. None of the above
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Correct Answer: index
3. User-Friendly Systems are:
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A. required for object-oriented programming
B. easy to develop
C. common among traditional mainframe operating systems
D. becoming more common
E. None of the above
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Correct Answer: becoming more common
4. Thrashing
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A. is a natural consequence of virtual memory systems
B. can always be avoided by swapping
C. always occurs on large computers
D. can be caused by poor paging algorithms
E. None of the above
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Correct Answer: can be caused by poor paging algorithms
5. Fragmentation of the file system
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A. occurs only if the file system is used improperly
B. can always be prevented
C. can be temporarily removed by compaction
D. is a characteristic of all file systems
E. None of the above
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Correct Answer: can be temporarily removed by compaction
6. What is the name of the operating system for the laptop computer called MacLite?
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A. Windows
B. DOS
C. MS-DOS
D. OZ
E. None of the above
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Correct Answer: OZ
7. Page stealing
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A. is a sign of an efficient system
B. is taking page frames from other working sets
C. should be the tuning goal
D. is taking larger disk spaces for pages paged out
E. None of the above
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Correct Answer: is taking page frames from other working sets
8. System generation:
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A. is always quite simple
B. is always very difficult
C. varies in difficulty between systems
D. requires extensive tools to be understandable
E. None of the above
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Correct Answer: varies in difficulty between systems
9. Which of the following instruction steps, would be written within the diamond-shaped box, of a flowchart?
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A. S = B - C
B. IS A<10
C. PRINT A
D. DATA X,4Z
E. None of the above
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Correct Answer: IS A<10
10. In analyzing the compilation of PL/I program, the term "Lexical analysis" is associated with
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A. recognition of basic syntactic constructs through reductions.
B. recognition of basic elements and creation of uniform symbols
C. creation of more optional matrix.
D. use of macro processor to produce more optimal assembly code
E. None of the above
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Correct Answer: recognition of basic elements and creation of uniform symbols
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