Operating System Multiple Choice Questions and Answers MCQ – Process Control Block

This set of Operating System Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Process Control Block”.

A Process Control Block(PCB) does not contain which of the following?
a) Code
b) Stack
c) Bootstrap program
d) Data

The number of processes completed per unit time is known as __________
a) Output
b) Throughput
c) Efficiency
d) Capacity

The state of a process is defined by __________
a) the final activity of the process
b) the activity just executed by the process
c) the activity to next be executed by the process
d) the current activity of the process

Which of the following is not the state of a process?
a) New
b) Old
c) Waiting
d) Running

What is the objective of multiprogramming?
a) Have some process running at all times
b) Have multiple programs waiting in a queue ready to run
c) To minimize CPU utilization
d) None of the mentioned

What is a Process Control Block?
a) Process type variable
b) Data Structure
c) A secondary storage section
d) A Block in memory

What is the degree of multiprogramming?
a) the number of processes executed per unit time
b) the number of processes in the ready queue
c) the number of processes in the I/O queue
d) the number of processes in memory

A single thread of control allows the process to perform __________
a) only one task at a time
b) multiple tasks at a time
c) only two tasks at a time
d) all of the mentioned

The entry of all the PCBs of the current processes is in __________
a) Process Register
b) Program Counter
c) Process Table
d) Process Unit

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