In a multiprogramming environment __________

• A. The processor executes more than one process at a time
• B. The programs are developed by more than one person
• C. More than one process resides in the memory
• D. A single user can execute many programs at the same time

Suppose that a process is in “Blocked” state waiting for some I/O service. When the service is completed, it goes to the __________

• A. Running state
• B. Ready state
• C. Suspended state
• D. Terminated state

The context of a process in the PCB of a process does not contain __________

• A. The value of the cpu registers
• B. The process state
• C. Memory-management information
• D. Context switch time

Which of the following need not necessarily be saved on a context switch between processes?

• A. General purpose registers
• B. Need not necessarily be saved on a context switch between processes. a special, small, fast-lookup hardware cache is called translation look-aside buffer. tlb used to reduce memory access time.
• C. Program counter
• D. All of the mentioned

Which of the following does not interrupt a running process?

• A. A device
• B. Timer
• C. Scheduler process
• D. Power failure

Remote Procedure Calls are used ____________

• A. For communication between two processes remotely different from each other on the same system
• B. For communication between two processes on the same system
• C. For communication between two processes on separate systems
• D. None of the mentioned

To differentiate the many network services a system supports ______ are used.

• A. Variables
• B. Sockets
• C. Ports
• D. Service names

RPC provides a(an) _____ on the client-side, a separate one for each remote procedure.

• A. Stub
• B. Identifier
• C. Name
• D. Process identifier

What is stub?

• A. Transmits the message to the server where the server side stub receives the message and invokes procedure on the server side
• B. Packs the parameters into a form transmittable over the network
• C. Locates the port on the server
• D. All of the mentioned

To resolve the problem of data representation on different systems RPCs define _____________

• A. Machine dependent representation of data
• B. Machine representation of data
• C. Machine-independent representation of data
• D. None of the mentioned