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Secondary Storage - Operating System Questions & Answers

1.

Which one of the following is not a secondary storage?

   A.) Magnetic disks
   B.) Magnetic tapes
   C.) RAM
   D.) None of the mentioned

Answer: Option 'C'

RAM

2.

The time for the disk arm to move the heads to the cylinder containing the desired sector is called

   A.) disk time
   B.) ​seek time
   C.) arm time
   D.) sector time

Answer: Option 'B'

seek time

3.

Operating system is responsible for

   A.) disk initialization
   B.) booting from disk
   C.) bad-block recovery
   D.) all of the mentioned

Answer: Option 'D'

all of the mentioned

4.

RAID level 1 refers to

   A.) disk arrays with striping
   B.) disk mirroring
   C.) both disk arrays with striping and disk mirroring
   D.) none of the mentioned

Answer: Option 'B'

disk mirroring

5.

During recovery from a failure

   A.) each pair of physical block is examined
   B.) specified pair of physical block is examined
   C.) first pair of physical block is examined
   D.) none of the mentioned

Answer: Option 'A'

each pair of physical block is examined

6.

The replacement of a bad block generally is not totally automatic because

   A.) data in bad block can not be replaced
   B.) data in bad block is usually lost
   C.) bad block does not contain any data
   D.) none of the mentioned

Answer: Option 'B'

data in bad block is usually lost

7.

When we write something on the disk, which one of the following can not happen?

   A.) successful completion
   B.) partial failure
   C.) total failure
   D.) none of the mentioned

Answer: Option 'D'

none of the mentioned

8.

A swap space can reside in

   A.) Separate disk partition
   B.) RAM
   C.) Cache
   D.) None of the mentioned

Answer: Option 'A'

Separate disk partition

9.

Which algorithm of disk scheduling selects the request with the least seek time from the current head positions?

   A.) SSTF scheduling
   B.) FCFS scheduling
   C.) LOOK scheduling
   D.) SCAN scheduling

Answer: Option 'A'

SSTF scheduling

10.

Which private network uses storage protocol rather than networking protocol?

   A.) local area network
   B.) wide area network
   C.) storage area network
   D.) none of the mentioned

Answer: Option 'C'

storage area network


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