Operating System Questions & Answers – File System Implementation

This set of Operating System Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “File System Implementation”.

1. Management of metadata information is done by ____________
a) file-organisation module
b) logical file system
c) basic file system
d) application programs
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2. A file control block contains the information about ____________
a) file ownership
b) file permissions
c) location of file contents
d) all of the mentioned
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3. Which table contains the information about each mounted volume?
a) mount table
b) system-wide open-file table
c) per-process open-file table
d) all of the mentioned
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4. To create a new file application program calls ____________
a) basic file system
b) logical file system
c) file-organisation module
d) none of the mentioned
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5. What will happens when a process closes the file?
a) per-process table entry is not removed
b) system wide entry’s open count is decremented
c) all of the mentioned
d) none of the mentioned
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6. What is raw disk?
a) disk without file system
b) empty disk
c) disk lacking logical file system
d) disk having file system
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7. The data structure used for file directory is called ____________
a) mount table
b) hash table
c) file table
d) process table
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8. In which type of allocation method each file occupy a set of contiguous block on the disk?
a) contiguous allocation
b) dynamic-storage allocation
c) linked allocation
d) indexed allocation
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9. If the block of free-space list is free then bit will ____________
a) 1
b) 0
c) any of 0 or 1
d) none of the mentioned
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10. Which protocol establishes the initial logical connection between a server and a client?
a) transmission control protocol
b) user datagram protocol
c) mount protocol
d) datagram congestion control protocol
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