Q. A process is

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Q. Switching the CPU to another Process requires to save state of the old process and loading new process state is called as __________.

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Q. Boundary registers ________.

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Q. A Process Control Block(PCB) does not contain which of the following :

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Q. The state of a process is defined by :

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Q. Which of the following is not the state of a process ?

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Q. The Process Control Block is :

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Q. The entry of all the PCBs of the current processes is in :

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Q. A single thread of control allows the process to perform :

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Q. The objective of multi-programming is to :

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Q. Which of the following do not belong to queues for processes ?

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Q. When the process issues an I/O request :

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Q. When a process terminates :

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Q. A thread is

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Q. Which one of the following can not be scheduled by the kernel?

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Q. The two steps of a process execution are :

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Q. Which of the following is correct regarding process in operating system?

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Q. Which one of the following is not a valid state of a thread?

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Q. A process executes the code,

fork();
fork();
fork();

How many child processes are created?

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Q. An operating system maintains smaller data structures for a thread than a process, as a thread is usually defined as a ‘ light weight process ’. What is the per thread basis of the operating system?

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