OS Organization: Final Exam Sample Questions -True or False

T / F -One approach to dealing with multiple interrupts is to disable all interrupts while an interrupt is being processed. (T/F)

T / F – Uni-programming typically provides better utilization of system resources than multiprogramming.

T / F – A monolithic kernel architecture assigns only a few essential functions to the kernel, including address spaces, interprocess communication and basic scheduling.

T / F – The less-privileged processor execution mode is often referred to as kernel mode

T / F – Starvation refers to the situation where competing processes are denied access to a resource due to scheduling problems.

T / F – Message passing provides both synchronization and communication, which are fundamental requirements for interacting processes.

T / F – The strategy of deadlock prevention is to design a system in such a way that the possibility of deadlock is minimized.

T / F – The concept of virtual memory is based on one or both of two basic techniques: segmentation and paging.

T / F – The resident set of a process can be changed in response to actions by other processes.

T / F – Thrashing will never be a problem if the system has 1 GB of real memory

T / F – The translation lookaside buffer (TLB) is a software data structure that supports the virtual memory address translation operation

T / F – Round Robin is a scheduling technique that is also known as time slicing, because each process is given a slice of time before being preempted.