System Administrator 2026
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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
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
What is the full form of RMI?
  • A. Remote memory installation
  • B. Remote memory invocation
  • C. Remote method installation
  • D. Remote method invocation
The remote method invocation __________
  • A. Allows a process to invoke memory on a remote object
  • B. Allows a thread to invoke a method on a remote object
  • C. Allows a thread to invoke memory on a remote object
  • D. Allows a process to invoke a method on a remote object