Explore topic-wise MCQs in Operating System.

This section includes 60 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Operating System knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.

51.

When a deadlock is detected the recovery is normally accomplished by :

A. rollback of transaction
B. locking of data
C. consistency checking
D. none of these
Answer» B. locking of data
52.

Which of the following is used for undo operations alone ?

A. Logical logging
B. Physical logging
C. Physical log records
D. Physical logging and Physical log records
Answer» B. Physical logging
53.

Checkpoints are a part of

A. Recovery measures
B. Security measures
C. Concurrency measures
D. Authorization measures
Answer» B. Security measures
54.

The assumption that the hardware errors bring the system to a halt is called as ________

A. Halter assumption
B. Phantom assumption
C. Fail-stop assumption
D. Disk failure
Answer» D. Disk failure
55.

If the database modifications occur while the transaction is still active, the transaction is said to use the __________ modification technique

A. Deferred
B. Immediate
C. More than one of the mentioned
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» C. More than one of the mentioned
56.

The log is a sequence of ___________, recording all the update activities in the database.

A. Log records
B. Records
C. Entries
D. Redo
Answer» B. Records
57.

A special redo-only log record is written to the log, where V1 is the value being restored to data item Xj during the rollback. These log records are sometimes called

A. Log records
B. Records
C. Compensation log records
D. Compensation redo records
Answer» D. Compensation redo records
58.

In the __________ phase, the system replays updates of all transactions by scanning the log forward from the last checkpoint.

A. Repeating
B. Redo
C. Replay
D. Undo
Answer» C. Replay
59.

The actions which are played in the order while recording it is called ______________ history.

A. Repeating
B. Redo
C. Replay
D. Undo
Answer» B. Redo
60.

The current copy of the database is identified by a pointer, called _____________, which is stored on disk.

A. Db-pointer
B. Update log
C. Update log records
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» B. Update log