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A trap switches the system from - ANSWER>>user mode to kernel mode.

The dirty bit in page tables is used to indicate: - ANSWER>>page has been modified/written to

In file systems, a hard-link is - ANSWER>>a pointer to an inode

Directories in file systems are usually implemented using the following two data
structures - ANSWER>>Array and Hash

Mention two types of file system locks - ANSWER>>Mandatory and Advisory

File system soft-links span: - ANSWER>>Multiple filesystems

What are the four necessary conditions for a deadlock to occur: - ANSWER>>1. Mutual
Exclusion, 2. Hold and Wait,
3. Non-preemption, 4. Circular Wait

The main disadvantage of single-level page tables when compared with multi-level page tables
is - ANSWER>>memory needed to store it

What does NUMA stand for? - ANSWER>>Non-uniform Memory Access

What does DMA stand for? - ANSWER>>Direct Memory Access

What does TLB stand for? - ANSWER>>Translation Lookaside Buffer

What does LRU stand for? - ANSWER>>Least Recently Used

What does EPT stand for? - ANSWER>>Extended Page Tables

What does VMM stand for? - ANSWER>>Virtual Machine Monitor?

What does MMU stand for? - ANSWER>>Memory Management Unit

, What does VFS stand for? - ANSWER>>Virtual Filesystem

What does RAID stand for? - ANSWER>>Redundant Array of Independent Disks

What does PTBR stand for? - ANSWER>>Page Table Base Register

What does STBR stand for? - ANSWER>>Segment Table Base Register

What does STLR stand for? - ANSWER>>Segment Table Length Register

What does FIFO stand for? - ANSWER>>First In First Out

What does EAT stand for? - ANSWER>>Effective Access Time

What does COW stand for? - ANSWER>>Copy on Write

What does LFU stand for? - ANSWER>>Least Frequently Used

What does FAT stand for? - ANSWER>>File Allocation Table

What does MFU stand for? - ANSWER>>Most Frequently used

What does PCB stand for? - ANSWER>>Process Control Block

What does PTLR stand for? - ANSWER>>Page Table Length Register

What does ACL stand for? - ANSWER>>Access Control List

What does FCB stand for? - ANSWER>>File Control Block

What does FCFS stand for? - ANSWER>>First Come First Serve

What does SJF stand for? - ANSWER>>Shortest Job First

What does MRU stand for? - ANSWER>>Most Recently Used

What does ASID stand for? - ANSWER>>Address Space ID

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