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This section includes 68 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your C Programming knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
51. |
An innovation that improves both dependability and performance of storage systems is |
A. | Frame array |
B. | Disk arrays |
C. | Optimizer |
D. | All above |
Answer» C. Optimizer | |
52. |
One of the most widely used exponential distributions is called a |
A. | Passion distribution |
B. | Possible distribution |
C. | Poisson distribution |
D. | Poisson association |
Answer» D. Poisson association | |
53. |
Redundant disk arrays have become known, by the acronym |
A. | SAID |
B. | RED |
C. | RAID |
D. | DIMM |
Answer» D. DIMM | |
54. |
Spreading data over multiple disks, called |
A. | Striping |
B. | Disk arrays |
C. | Window |
D. | Areal density |
Answer» B. Disk arrays | |
55. |
................. is the time required to move the disk arm to the required track. |
A. | Seek time |
B. | Rotational delay |
C. | Latency time |
D. | Access time |
Answer» B. Rotational delay | |
56. |
What is the effect of using a larger block size in a fixed block size file system? |
A. | It leads to poorer disk throughput and poorer disk space utilization |
B. | It leads to poorer disk throughput but better disk space utilization |
C. | It leads to better disk throughput and better disk space utilization |
D. | It leads to better disk throughput and poorer disk space utilization |
Answer» E. | |
57. |
Dynamic allocation of storage areas with VSAM files is accomplished by |
A. | hashing |
B. | control splits |
C. | over flow areas |
D. | relative recording |
Answer» C. over flow areas | |
58. |
Root directory of a disk should be placed |
A. | at the fixed address in the main memory |
B. | at a fixed location on the disk |
C. | at the fixed location on system disk |
D. | anywhere on the disk |
Answer» C. at the fixed location on system disk | |
59. |
Consider a system with 32 bit virtual addresses and 1 kbyte page size. Why is it not possible to use one - level page tables for virtual to physical address translation? |
A. | The amount of external fragmentation |
B. | The amount of internal fragmentation |
C. | The large computation overhead in the translation process |
D. | The large memory overhead in maintaining page tables |
Answer» E. | |
60. |
Which of the following file name extension suggests that the file is Backup copy of another file ? |
A. | TXT |
B. | COM |
C. | BAS |
D. | BAK |
Answer» E. | |
61. |
In memory management , a technique called as paging, physical memory is broken into fixed-sized blocks called ___________. |
A. | Pages |
B. | Frames |
C. | Blocks |
D. | Segments |
Answer» C. Blocks | |
62. |
Disk scheduling involves deciding ? |
A. | which disk should be accessed next |
B. | the order in which disk access request should be made |
C. | physical location of files |
D. | type of disks a system should have |
Answer» C. physical location of files | |
63. |
CPU can access which type of memory directly? |
A. | random-access memory |
B. | magnetic disk |
C. | magnetic tape |
D. | None of the above |
Answer» B. magnetic disk | |
64. |
It is for the syntax correctness |
A. | It is for the type-casting |
B. | It is to inform malloc function about the data-type expected |
C. | None of the mentioned |
Answer» D. | |
65. |
Memory allocation using malloc() is done in _________ |
A. | Static area |
B. | Stack area |
C. | Heap area |
D. | Both Stack & Heap area |
Answer» D. Both Stack & Heap area | |
66. |
In function free(p), p is a _______ |
A. | int |
B. | Pointer returned by malloc() |
C. | Pointer returned by calloc() |
D. | Pointer returned by malloc() & calloc() |
Answer» B. Pointer returned by malloc() | |
67. |
calloc() returns a storage that is initialized to. |
A. | Zero |
B. | Null |
C. | Nothing |
D. | One |
Answer» B. Null | |
68. |
void * malloc(size_t n) returns? |
A. | Pointer to n bytes of uninitialized storage |
B. | NULL if the request can be satisfied |
C. | Nothing |
D. | None of the mentioned |
Answer» D. None of the mentioned | |