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Practice MCQs for Other Operating Systems. Test your knowledge with carefully crafted questions across easy, medium, and hard difficulty levels.

🔄 Last updated: 2026-07-27

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Q1. Which operating system was the first to be written in a system programming language?

🔹 A. MCP
🔹 B. SCOPE
🔹 C. MULTICS
🔹 D. UNIX

💡 Difficulty: easy | ✅ Correct: A

Q2. A computer operator on a manually‑controlled early system must decide the order of three jobs: Job A (CPU‑intensive, 30 s), Job B (I/O‑heavy, 30 s), and Job C (mixed, 15 s CPU then 15 s I/O). Which sequencing best reduces idle CPU time?

🔹 A. A → B → C
🔹 B. B → C → A
🔹 C. C → A → B
🔹 D. C → B → A

💡 Difficulty: medium | ✅ Correct: B

Q3. To minimize the speed gap between CPU and I/O on an early batch system, which combination of techniques would be most effective?

🔹 A. Double buffering of I/O devices and overlapping computation
🔹 B. Increasing clock speed without changing I/O hardware
🔹 C. Running I/O‑bound jobs only after all CPU‑bound jobs finish
🔹 D. Using a single‑task scheduler with longer time slices

💡 Difficulty: hard | ✅ Correct: A

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📝 Feature Migration in Operating Systems📝 Early Computer Systems📝 Dedicated computer systems📝 Shared computer systems📝 Overlapped I/O operating system
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