TOS Carla Questions

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
OPERSYS Midterm Examinations

First Semester, School Year 2016-2017
NAME: ________________________________________________________ SCORE: ___________

COURSE & YEAR: ____________________SECTION: _____________________ DATE:
__________
General Instructions:
1. Use black and blue pen only
2. Tampering or any mark of erasures means wrong
3. Read the questions carefully
4. Cellphones or tablets are not allowed
I. IDENTIFICATION. On the box below, choose the correct answer that best
represents the given questions. (2 points each)
Absolute Loading
Dynamic Run-Time Loading
Hand-held
Central Processing Unit
Hardware
Auxiliary Memory
Physical Address
I/O Protection
Software
Privileged Instructions
Software
Interpreters
Program Register
I/O Devices
Sector
Operating System
Seek Time
System bus
Multithreaded
Internal Register L1 Cache

User Mode
L2 Cache
Transfer Time
Business Software
Shell
Signals
Pipe
DMA
Real-time System
Document
CPU Scheduling
Queues
____________1. A technique wherein the load module has the actual memory
addresses assigned instead of symbolic variables.
____________2. It is the smallest unit that can be read from or written to, and
contains a fixed number of bytes, usually in 512 bytes.
____________3. These are software-generated interrupts that is used by a process
to inform another process that a certain event has occurred.
____________4. These are computers that must produce correct results on a very
strict time constraint, which is usually very small.
____________5. It is a system software that allows users or the application
programs to interact with the computer hardware in an easy and convenient
manner.
____________6. These allow a process to pass information to another process.
____________7. This refers to the time it takes to allocate the data to or from the
hard disk.
____________8. Refers to the number of ready processes in the main memory.
____________9. This are programs that can provide users with tools for commercial
management.
____________10. This system has identical processors sharing a common main
memory.
____________11. Refers to the sequence of instructions that a new thread
executes which is independent from others.
____________12. A massive, expensive, slow and very primitive mainframe
computers that was used in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
____________13. A language translator that does not generate an executable file.
____________14. A software that can locate a program on the hard disk, loads it in
the main memory, and then execute.
____________15. Known as the fundamental in scheduling.

____________16. It is the concurrent execution of two or more programs by a
central processing unit.
____________17. A type of cache memories that is located in the CPU chip.
____________18. An operation wherein the CPU can execute any instruction and
access the entire main memory.
____________19. It is the natural or primitive language that the computer actually
understands.
____________20. One of the core services of an operating system wherein the
secondary storage has the access to all type of files.
____________21. A group of well-defined set of instructions that tells the computer
what to do.
____________22. It is used to transfer data to the main memory.
____________23. Often called as command interpreter.
____________24. It refers to deciding the order of the process or thread execution.
____________25. This is the technique used in the most modern operating system.
II. MATCHING TYPE. Match column A with that of column B. Write your answer
on the space provided before the number. (2 points each)
COLUMN A
________1. Program Counter
of the CPU
________2. Batch Processing
period
________3. Bootstrap program
Scheduling
________4. Polling
user
________5. Debuggers
________6. Time Quantum
________7. Program Execution
________8. Modular Programming
________9. Interrupts
________10.Application Software
several components
COLUMN B
A. Signal sent to get the attention
B. Assigning process for interval
C.
Memory
Allocation
and
CPU
D. Professional and Personal needs of the

E. Track Memory Address
F. Machine Code
G. Stored in ROM
H. Started in the middle 1950s
I. Process of handling I/O devices
J. Large Program divided into
K. System Software
III. ABBREVIATION. Complete the meaning of the abbreviate words. (2 points

each)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
VMF
ISR
HLPL
AMP
SRAM
IV. ESSAY. Discuss/Differentiate the following terms based on the idea of

operating system. Use the space provided for your answers.
1. Compare and Contrast compiler to interpreter. (5 points)
2. Draw a diagram representing Vonn Neumann

architecture and be able to explain each functions. Use
the space on the back. (10 points)
3. Using the FCFS Algorithm, Complete the following

table below and show your process. Use the space on
the back to show your process. (15 points)
Process
ID
A
B
C
D
Arrival
Time
0
3
4
6
CPU
Burst
8
4
5
3
FCFS Algorithm
Rem
Priority Time
1
3
2
5
Averag
e
Waiting
Time
Turnaround
Time

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INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY

OPERSYS Midterm Examinations

NAME: ______________________________________________ SCORE: _

Internal Register L1 Cache

____________15. Known as the fundamental in scheduling.

D. Professional and Personal needs of the

III. ABBREVIATION. Complete the meaning of the abbreviate words. (2 points

IV. ESSAY. Discuss/Differentiate the following terms based on the idea of

2. Draw a diagram representing Vonn Neumann

3. Using the FCFS Algorithm, Complete the following

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