Introduction To Operating Systems NPTEL Week 4 Assignment
Session: JULY-DEC 2023
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Q1. Let the number of bits for Interrupt gate descriptor be 48, ie 32:16 (segment selector:offset). Each entry in the interrupt descriptor table is 5 Bytes. What will the total size of the IDT in bytes ?
1256
1024
1020
1280
Answer: 1024
Q2. State True or False
The user to kernel stack switching is done using Task Segment Descriptor, by changing SS to SS1 and ESP to ESP1
True
False
Answer: True
Q3. Which of the following is FALSE.
An interrupt occurs in the protected mode.
Determine the IRQ number from the interrupt controller.
Switch from user to kernel stack
Save the process states.
None of these
Answer: None of these
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Q4. Interrupt vector number used for system call is xv6 _.
16
32
48
64
Answer: 64
Q5. What does the the system call sys_uptime() return?
Time the when system call is invoked.
Time since the start of the process
The number of clock ticks interrupts that have occurred since the start.
Maximum time the interrupt taken to complete execution.
Answer: The number of clock ticks interrupts that have occurred since the start.
Q6. The signal sent from the processor to the device after receiving an interrupt is
Interrupt-acknowledge
Return signal
Service signal
Permission signal
Answer: Interrupt-acknowledge
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Q7. The return address from the interrupt-service routine is stored on the
Interrupt handler
Processor register
Kernel stack
Memory
Answer: Kernel stack
Q8. Which of the following are TRUE in a multiprogrammed OS?
a. More than one program can be in the ready state at the same time.
b. When a program exits, other programs are loaded into ready queue immediately.
c. After a software interrupt occurred, a process in the ready queue may switch to running state
d. If a higher priority process is present in the ready queue, then the running process will immediately switching from running to ready state.
a, b, c
a, b, d
a, c, d
a, b, c, d
Answer: a, b, d
Q9. Which of the following does not interrupt a running process?
A device
Timer
Power Failure
None of the above
Answer: None of the above
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Q10. State True/False for each of the following statements.
1. In a multitasking operating system, interrupt (either software, hardware, or exception) is required for the operating system to execute.
2. A context switching occurs whenever the OS executes.
True,True
True,False
False, True
False, False
Answer: True,False
Q11. Which of the following need not necessarily be saved when context switch occurs?
Registers
TLB
Program counter
None of the above
Answer: TLB
Q12. Consider a system having n CPUs, k processes, and k > n. Calculate the upper bound for the number of processes in the READY, RUNNING and BLOCKED states
k, k, k
n, n, n
k, k , n
k, n, k
Answer: k, n, k
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Q13. State True or False
Double fault is a fault that occurs when a CPU is trying to call an exception handler.
True
False
Answer: False
Q14. Devices that turn on interrupt in xv6?
UART
IDE
Keyboard
All of these
Answer: All of these
Q15. Match the following
Trapframe 1. Overflow
Trap 2. Difficult to recover
Fault 3. Restore the context
Abort 4. Segment not present
a-3, b-1 c-4, d-2
a-3, b-4,c-1, d-3
a-4, b-1, c-3, d-2
a-4, b-3, c-2, d -1
Answer: a-3, b-1 c-4, d-2
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Q1. A double fault is a fault that occurs when a CPU is trying to call an exception handler.
a. True
b. False
Answer: b. False
Q2. Arrange in order of occurrence
a) Obtain the IRQ number from the interrupt controller
b) I/O APIC transfer interrupt to Local APIC.
c) Save the program states
d)Local APIC assert the CPU interrupt
Answer: d, b, c, a
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Q3. A system n processes, and with a non preemptive scheduler. What is the total number of scheduling possible?
a. n
b. n!
c. n(n-1)
d. 2^n
Answer: c. n(n-1)
Q4. When a CPU is interrupted, it
a. Stops executing instructions
b. Acknowledge interrupt and continues
c. Acknowledge interrupt and branches to a subroutine
d. Acknowledge interrupt and waits for the next instruction from the interrupted device
Answer: Acknowledge interrupt and waits for the next instruction from the interrupted device
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Consider a system having n CPUs, k processes, and k > n. Calculate the upper bound and lower bound for the number of processes in the RUNNING, READY and BLOCKED states.
Q5. The upper bound is :
a. k, k, k
b. n, k, k
c. k, k , n
d. k, n, k
Answer: n, k, k
Q6. The lower bound is :
a. 1, 1, 1
b. 0, 0, 0
c. 0, 1 , 1
d. 1, 1, 0
Answer: d. 1, 1, 0
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Q7. Six bytes are required to store the Interrupt gate descriptor in Intel’s 80386 processor. Each descriptor comprises of 32 bits for the segment
selector and 16 bits for the offset(segment selector:offset). What is the total size in bytes of the interrupt descriptor table (IDT)?
a. 1256
b. 1024
c. 1536
d. 1280
Answer: c. 1536
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Q8. Which one of the following is FALSE?
a. Kernel level threads cannot share the code segment
b. User level threads are not scheduled by the kernel
c. Context switching between user level threads is faster than context switching between kernel level threads
d. When a user level thread is blocked, all other threads of its process are blocked
Answer: a. Kernel level threads cannot share the code segment
Q9. Context switching is not required for a system without multi programmed OS
a. True
b. False
Answer: a. True
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Q10. Which of the below statement is False?
a. Kernel stack can be used to store the context of a process
b. User stack is used to store the function details during function calls
c. Kernel stack is used to store the function arguments during systems calls
d. Context of the process is useful to restart the process after some time
Answer: b. User stack is used to store the function details during function calls
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Q11. Match the following
a) a-3, b-1 c-4, d-2
b) a-3, b-4,c-1, d-3
c) a-4, b-1, c-4, d-2
d) a-4, b-3, c-2, d -1
Answer: b) a-3, b-4,c-1, d-3
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