The usual effect of abnormal termination of a program is ____________

• A. Core dump file generation
• B. System crash
• C. Program switch
• D. Signal destruction

In UNIX, the abort() function sends the ________ signal to the calling process, causing abnormal termination.

• A. Sigterm
• B. Sigstop
• C. Sigabort
• D. Sigabrt

In most cases, if a process is sent a signal while it is executing a system call ____________

• A. The system call will continue execution and the signal will be ignored completely
• B. The system call is interrupted by the signal, and the signal handler comes in
• C. The signal has no effect until the system call completes
• D. None of the mentioned

A process can never be sure that a signal it has sent _____________

• A. Has which identifier
• B. Has not been lost
• C. Has been sent
• D. All of the mentioned

In UNIX, the ______________ system call is used to send a signal.

• A. Sig
• B. Send
• C. Kill
• D. Sigsend

Virtual memory allows ____________

• A. Execution of a process that may not be completely in memory
• B. A program to be smaller than the physical memory
• C. A program to be larger than the secondary storage
• D. Execution of a process without being in physical memory

The instruction being executed, must be in ____________

• A. Physical memory
• B. Logical memory
• C. Physical & logical memory
• D. None of the mentioned

Error handler codes, to handle unusual errors are ____________

• A. Almost never executed
• B. Executed very often
• C. Executed periodically
• D. None of the mentioned

The ability to execute a program that is only partially in memory has benefits like ____________

• A. The amount of physical memory cannot put a constraint on the program
• B. Programs for an extremely large virtual space can be created
• C. Throughput increases
• D. All of the mentioned

In virtual memory. the programmer __________ of overlays.

• A. Has to take care
• B. Does not have to take care
• C. All of the mentioned
• D. None of the mentioned