Operating System Processes Multiple Choice Questions with Answers – PDF Download

MCQ 1: Address of a next instruction to be executed by the current process is provided by the:

1. CPU registers
2. program counter
3. process stack
4. pipe

MCQ 2: In operating system, each process has its own:

1. address space and global variables
2. open files
3. pending alarms, signals and signal handlers
4. all of these

MCQ 3: Interprocess communication is the:

1. communication within the process
2. communication between two process
3. communication between two threads of same process
4. communication between current and old program

MCQ 4: The system which allows only one process execution at a time, is called:

1. uniprogramming system
2. uniprocessing system
3. unitasking system
4. unioperation system

MCQ 5: Ready state of a process means:

1. when process is scheduled to run after some execution
2. when process is unable to run until some task has been completed
3. when process is using the CPU
4. when process is stopped