Quiz 5

Create an engaging digital illustration featuring a stylized representation of an operating system dashboard with floating process and thread icons, emphasizing CPU utilization and resource management.

Master the World of Processes and Threads

Test your knowledge of operating systems with our comprehensive quiz on processes and threads. Designed for students, educators, and tech enthusiasts alike, this quiz will challenge your understanding of key concepts in resource management and thread handling.

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What is the unit of resource ownership?

Processor

Process

Thread

Windows is Multiple threads per process OS.

True

False

The program switches the processor from one process to another.

Operator

Dispatcher

Trace

Kernel

Choose three common ways of establishing a relationship between user and kernel threads

O the many-to-many model

The many-to-one model

O the one-to-one model

O the one-to-many model

The process contains which characteristics?

Scheduling

Elimination

Resource ownership

Choose three reasons for process termination.

O Parent termination

Invalid instruction

O Data misuse

O Child request

If a program is running twice, it counts as …. processes.

Depends on the process.

Two threads, one

What is an orphan process?

A process that has terminated or finished the parent process

A process that runs in the background

None of the other options

A process that completed the execution but exists in the entry list

Choose the right answers for Process.

OS is the process.

Nonprocess kernel is modern approach.

The kernel of the OS is executed outside of any process

The OS have its own memory device

Choose two reasons for process creation.

New batch job

Spawned by existing process.

New thread

Created by cpu

What are two essential elements of a process?

Program Code.

A set of data associated with that code

Program counter

Processor registers

Choose the advantages of Threads over Process?

Enhances communication between programs

Takes less time to switch between threads

Takes less time to terminate

Takes less time to create

Which answer is not true about Thread pools?

Threads in pool will not be active until they are awakened

The thread will be discarded once it has completed its work.

Unlimited threads could exhaust system resources, such as CPU time or memory.

Once the thread completes its service, it awaits more work as an active thread.

What is asynchronous threading?

Once the parent creates a child thread, the parent resumes its execution

Once the parent creates a child thread, the parent waits for all the children to terminate

Once the parent creates a child thread it terminates

It is scheduling algorithm

How is the basic unit of CPU utilization called?

Processor

Thread

Process

New process can be added to the

Blocked.

Ready

Ready/Suspend.

Waiting.

What threads share in the same process?

User Stack.

Kernel stack.

Process control block.

Thread Control Block.

What are two essential elements of a process?

O Program Code.

A set of data associated with that code

O program counter

O processor registers

Choose two reasons for process creation

Spawned by existing process.

Created by cpu

New thread

New batch job

The process control block is created and managed by which element?

VO driver

Process

Processor

How is the basic unit of CPU utilization called?

Process

Processor

Thread

What are the essential elements of any process?

Associated data

Control block

Program Code

Number of Threads

What is the unit of resource owneship?

Processor

Thread

Process

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