Operating systems TRUE / FALSE questions for competitive exams
Operating Systems Quiz with Answers - 5
1.
The difference between a computer Worm and a computer Virus is that a Virus requires
human action to spread.
(a) TRUE (b)
FALSE
Answer:
TRUE. Viruses are often transported as attachments in email or on a floppy
boot track and require someone to actually click on the attachment or boot the
disk to start. Worms can arrive all by themselves, via security flaws in the
OS. [source: UCB]
2.
An operating system is defined as hardware that converts software into a useful
form for applications.
(a)
TRUE (b) FALSE
Answer:
FALSE. It is software that converts
hardware. [source: Wisconsin]
3.
The abstraction that the OS provides for the CPU is a virtual address space.
(a)
TRUE (b) FALSE
Answer:
FALSE. CPU abstraction is a process. [source:
Wisconsin]
4.
With dynamic relocation, hardware dynamically translates an address on every
memory access.
(a) TRUE (b)
FALSE
Answer: TRUE.
[source: Wisconsin]
5.
The static portion of an address space cannot contain any data.
(a)
TRUE (b) FALSE
Answer: FALSE. Read-only
data could be in a static portion (along with code). [source: Wisconsin]
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