Explore topic-wise MCQs in Operating System.

This section includes 5 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Operating System knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.

1.

Thread pools limit the number of threads that exist at any one point, hence ____________

A. not letting the system resources like CPU time and memory exhaust
B. helping a limited number of processes at a time
C. not serving all requests and ignoring many
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» B. helping a limited number of processes at a time
Discussion
2.

Thread pools help in ____________

A. servicing multiple requests using one thread
B. servicing a single request using multiple threads from the pool
C. faster servicing of requests with an existing thread rather than waiting to create a new thread
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» D. none of the mentioned
Discussion
3.

If the thread pool contains no available thread ____________

A. the server runs a new process
B. the server goes to another thread pool
C. the server demands for a new pool creation
D. the server waits until one becomes free
Answer» E.
Discussion
4.

Each connection arriving at multi threaded servers via network is generally ____________

A. is directly put into the blocking queue
B. is wrapped as a task and passed on to a thread pool
C. is kept in a normal queue and then sent to the blocking queue from where it is dequeued
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. is kept in a normal queue and then sent to the blocking queue from where it is dequeued
Discussion
5.

Thread pools are useful when ____________

A. when we need to limit the number of threads running in the application at the same time
B. when we need to limit the number of threads running in the application as a whole
C. when we need to arrange the ordering of threads
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» B. when we need to limit the number of threads running in the application as a whole
Discussion