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In Unix, which system call creates the new process?

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What are the types of distributed operating systems?

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Network operating system runs on ___________.

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Which principle states that programs, users, and even the systems be given just enough privileges to perform their task?

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In SCSI disks used in high end PCs, the controller maintains a list of _________ on the disk. The disk is initialized during ________ formatting which sets aside spare sectors not visible to the operating system.

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The _______ program initializes all aspects of the system, from CPU registers to device controllers and the contents of main memory, and then starts the operating system.

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The two steps the operating system takes to use a disk to hold its files are _______ and ________.

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Whenever a process needs I/O to or from a disk it issues a ______________.

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On systems where there are multiple operating system, the decision to load a particular one is done by _____________

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To recover from failures in the network operations _____________ information may be maintained.

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The operating system _______ the links when traversing directory trees, to preserve the acyclic structure of the system.

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What will happen in the single level directory?

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The operating system keeps a small table containing information about all open files called ____________.

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The information about all files is kept in ____________.

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What are the characteristics of Host based IDS?

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What are the characteristics of stack based IDS?

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If the sum of the working – set sizes increases, exceeding the total number of available frames ____________.

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The priority of a process will ______________ if the scheduler assigns it a static priority.

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For real time operating systems, interrupt latency should be ____________.

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Hard real time operating system has ______________ jitter than a soft real time operating system.

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In real time operating system ____________.

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The _________ presents a uniform device-access interface to the I/O subsystem, much as system calls provide a standard interface between the application and the operating system.

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To obtain better memory utilization, dynamic loading is used. With dynamic loading, a routine is not loaded until it is called. For implementing dynamic loading ____________.

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The operating system maintains a ______ table that keeps track of how many frames have been allocated, how many are there, and how many are available.

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using transient code, _______ the size of the operating system during program execution.

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The operating system and the other processes are protected from being modified by an already running process because ____________.

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The operating system is responsible for?

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The main memory accommodates ____________.

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Swapping _______ be done when a process has pending I/O, or has to execute I/O operations only into operating system buffers.

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A deadlock avoidance algorithm dynamically examines the __________ to ensure that a circular wait condition can never exist.

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