System Administrator 2026
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Which one of the following connects high-speed high-bandwidth device to memory subsystem and CPU.
  • A. Expansion bus
  • B. Pci bus
  • C. Scsi bus
  • D. None of the mentioned
A process is moved to wait queue when I/O request is made with ____________
  • A. Non-blocking i/o
  • B. Blocking i/o
  • C. Asynchronous i/o
  • D. Synchronous i/o
Virtual memory uses disk space as an extension of _________
  • A. Secondary storage
  • B. Main memory
  • C. Tertiary storage
  • D. None of the mentioned
Using swap space significantly _________ system performance.
  • A. Increases
  • B. Decreases
  • C. Maintains
  • D. Does not affect
Linux __________ the use of multiple swap spaces.
  • A. Allows
  • B. Does not allow
  • C. May allow
  • D. None of the mentioned
A single swap space ______ reside in two places.
  • A. Can
  • B. Cannot
  • C. Must not
  • D. None of the mentioned
If the swap space is simply a large file, within the file system, ____________ used to create it, name it and allocate its space.
  • A. Special routines must be
  • B. Normal file system routines can be
  • C. Normal file system routines cannot be
  • D. Swap space storage manager is
For swap space created in a separate disk partition where no file system or directory structure is placed, _____________ used to allocate and deallocate the blocks.
  • A. Special routines must be
  • B. Normal file system routines can be
  • C. Normal file system routines cannot be
  • D. Swap space storage manager is
In UNIX, two per process ________ are used by the kernel to track swap space use.
  • A. Process tables
  • B. Swap maps
  • C. Memory maps
  • D. Partition maps