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Embedded and Real Time System | Set 2

1. What is hotlink protection?

Correct : A. stopping other sites from displaying images

2. For best speed position of CSS code should be at

Correct : C. at the top of the code

3. What is not the work of database optimization?

Correct : D. delete database

4. Which of the following is the Waterfall tool?

Correct : A. webpagetest.org

5. Which of the following is not the layer of the OSI Model?

Correct : D. atomic layer

6. Which browser gives maximum parallel connections per host?

Correct : A. opera 10

7. Which of the following help to meet and prove real-time constraints?

Correct : D. compiler

8. Which of the following is an important ingredient of all power optimization?

Correct : B. power model

9. Who proposed the first power model?

Correct : C. tiwari

10. Who proposed the third power model?

Correct : D. russell and jacome

11. Which compiler is based on the precise measurements of two fixed configurations?

Correct : C. third power model

12. What does SPM stand for?

Correct : A. scratch pad memories

13. Which model is based on precise measurements using real hardware?

Correct : A. encc energy-aware compiler

14. What is the solution to the knapsack problem?

Correct : D. one-to-one mapping

15. How can one compute the power consumption of the cache?

Correct : D. cacti

16. In real time operating system

Correct : B. a task must be serviced by its deadline period

17. For real time operating systems, interrupt latency should be

Correct : A. minimal

18. In rate monotonic scheduling

Correct : A. shorter duration job has higher priority

19. In which scheduling certain amount of CPU time is allocated to each process?

Correct : B. proportional share scheduling

20. The problem of priority inversion can be solved by

Correct : A. priority inheritance protocol

21. Time duration required for scheduling dispatcher to stop one process and start another is known as

Correct : B. dispatch latency

22. Which one of the following is a real time operating system?

Correct : D. all of the mentioned

23. VxWorks is centered around

Correct : A. wind microkernel

24. Identify the standard software components that can be reused?

Correct : B. operating system

25. What does WCTE stand for?

Correct : C. worst case execution time

26. For which of the following WCET can be computed?

Correct : D. program without recursion

27. The WCET of which component can be computed if the task is mapped to hardware?

Correct : A. hardware

28. Which estimation approach is used by Jha and Dutt for hardware?

Correct : B. estimated cost and performance value

29. Which estimate approach is more precise?

Correct : B. accurate cost and performance value

30. Which estimate approach takes more time to consume?

Correct : C. accurate cost and performance value

31. Which estimation technique can be used if interfaces to software synthesis tools and hardware synthesis tools exist?

Correct : D. accurate cost and performance value

32. Which of the following is the base for scheduling algorithm?

Correct : A. wcet

33. To schedule the processes, they are considered

Correct : B. periodic

34. If the period of a process is ‘p’, then what is the rate of the task?

Correct : C. 1/p

35. The scheduler admits a process using

Correct : C. busy wait polling

36. Rate monotonic scheduling assumes that the

Correct : A. processing time of a periodic process is same for each cpu burst

37. In rate monotonic scheduling, a process with a shorter period is assigned

Correct : A. a higher priority

38. Is it possible to schedule these tasks so that each meets its deadline using Rate monotonic scheduling?

Correct : A. yes

39. If a set of processes cannot be scheduled by rate monotonic scheduling algorithm, then

Correct : C. they cannot be scheduled by any other algorithm

40. A process P1 has a period of 50 and a CPU burst of t1 = 25, P2 has a period of 80 and a CPU burst of 35. Can the processes be scheduled without missing the deadlines?

Correct : B. no

41. What type of fault remains in the system for some period and then disappears?

Correct : B. transient

42. Which of the following approaches are used to achieve reliable systems?

Correct : D. all of the mentioned

43. A system maintaining its integrity while accepting a temporary halt in its operation is said to be in a state of

Correct : D. fail safe

44. Which of the following Error Detection checks is not a part of Application detection?

Correct : A. hardware checks

45. Exception handling is a type of

Correct : A. forward error recovery mechanism

46. Non-occurrence of improper alteration of information is known as

Correct : D. integral dependability

47. In N-version programming which is the independent generation of N, the value of N is

Correct : C. greater than 2

48. In Log-based fault tolerance, logs of undetermined events are saved and replayed on failure.

Correct : A. true

49. All fault-tolerant techniques rely on

Correct : C. redundancy

50. In distributed systems, a logical clock is associated with

Correct : B. each process

51. If timestamps of two events are same, then the events are

Correct : A. concurrent

52. If a process is executing in its critical section

Correct : B. no other process can execute in its critical section

53. For proper synchronization in distributed systems

Correct : C. prevention from the deadlock & starvation is must

54. In the token passing approach of distributed systems, processes are organized in a ring structure

Correct : A. logically

55. In distributed systems, what will the transaction coordinator do?

Correct : D. all of the mentioned

56. 5 CLOCK SYNCHRONISATION

Correct : C. both bully and ring algorithm

57. In distributed systems, election algorithms assumes that

Correct : A. a unique priority number is associated with each active process in system

58. According to the ring algorithm, links between processes are

Correct : B. unidirectional

59. Which of the following works by dividing the processor’s time?

Correct : B. multitask operating system

60. Which of the following decides which task can have the next time slot?

Correct : C. kernel

61. Which of the following controls the time slicing mechanism in a multitasking operating system?

Correct : C. multitasking kernel

62. Which of the following provides a time period for the context switch?

Correct : C. time slice

63. Which of the following can periodically trigger the context switch?

Correct : B. hardware interrupt

64. Which interrupt provides system clock in the context switching?

Correct : B. hardware interrupt

65. The special tale in the multitasking operating system is also known as

Correct : A. task control block

66. Which of the following stores all the task information that the system requires?

Correct : D. task control block

67. Which of the following contains all the task and their status?

Correct : B. ready list

68. Which determines the sequence and the associated task’s priority?

Correct : A. scheduling algorithm

69. Which can control memory usage?

Correct : D. kernel

70. Which can control the memory sharing between the tasks?

Correct : A. kernel

71. Which of the following can carry information and control task?

Correct : B. messages

72. How many types of messages are associated with the real-time operating system?

Correct : A. 2

73. For real time operating systems, interrupt latency should be

Correct : A. minimal

74. In rate monotonic scheduling

Correct : A. shorter duration job has higher priority

75. In which scheduling certain amount of CPU time is allocated to each process?

Correct : B. proportional share scheduling

76. The problem of priority inversion can be solved by

Correct : A. priority inheritance protocol

77. Time duration required for scheduling dispatcher to stop one process and start another is known as

Correct : B. dispatch latency

78. Time required to synchronous switch from the context of one thread to the context of another thread is called?

Correct : C. context switch time

79. VxWorks is centered around

Correct : A. wind microkernel

80. Message passing system allows processes to

Correct : A. communicate with one another without resorting to shared data

81. Which of the following two operations are provided by the IPC facility?

Correct : D. receive & send message

82. Messages sent by a process

Correct : C. can be fixed or variable sized

83. The link between two processes P and Q to send and receive messages is called

Correct : A. communication link

84. Which of the following are TRUE for direct communication?

Correct : B. a communication link can be associated with exactly two processes

85. In indirect communication between processes P and Q

Correct : C. there is a mailbox to help communication between p and q

86. In the non blocking send

Correct : B. the sending process sends the message and resumes operation

87. In the Zero capacity queue

Correct : B. the sender blocks until the receiver receives the message

88. The Zero Capacity queue

Correct : B. is referred to as a message system with no buffering

89. Bounded capacity and Unbounded capacity queues are referred to as

Correct : B. automatic buffering

90. During the execution of the instructions, a copy of the instructions is placed in the

Correct : D. cache

91. A processor performing fetch or decoding of different instruction during the execution of another instruction is called

Correct : B. pipe-lining

92. For a given FINITE number of instructions to be executed, which architecture of the processor provides for a faster execution?

Correct : C. super-scalar

93. An optimizing Compiler does

Correct : B. takes advantage of the type of processor and reduces its process time

94. The ultimate goal of a compiler is to

Correct : A. reduce the clock cycles for a programming task

95. SPEC stands for

Correct : C. system performance evaluation corporation

96. As of 2000, the reference system to find the performance of a system is

Correct : A. ultra sparc 10

97. When Performing a looping operation, the instruction gets stored in the

Correct : B. cache

98. The average number of steps taken to execute the set of instructions can be made to be less than one by following

Correct : C. super-scaling

99. If a processor clock is rated as 1250 million cycles per second, then its clock period is

Correct : D. 8 * 10-10 sec

100. If the instruction, Add R1, R2, R3 is executed in a system that is pipe-lined, then the value of S is (Where S is a term of the Basic performance equation)?

Correct : C. ~1