Question Discussion & Solution

The correct answer is option 2.

Concept:

A process control block (PCB) is a data structure used by computer operating systems to store all process-related information. A process descriptor is another name for it. The operating system creates a process control block when a process is created (initialized or installed).

Process Control is a set of system calls that perform tasks such as process creation, termination, and so on.

Process Control Functions:

• End and Abort
• Load and Execute
• Abort, end
• Create Process and Terminate Process
• Wait and Signal Event
• Allocate and free memory.

Hence the correct answer is process control.

Additional Information File Management:

File manipulation tasks such as creating, reading, and writing is handled by file management system calls.

File manipulation Functions:

• Create a file
• Delete file
• Open and close file
• Read, write, and reposition
• Get and set file attributes

Device Management:

Device management is responsible for device manipulation such as reading from and writing to devise buffers.

Device management Functions:

• Request and release device
• Logically attach/ detach devices
• Get and Set device attributes

Information Maintenance:

It handles information and its transfer between the OS and the user program.

Information Maintenance Functions:

• Get or set time and date
• Get process and device attributes

The correct answer is In 1994.

• In 1994, the state road policy was announced in Rajasthan.

Key Points

• State road policy, Rajasthan:
  • Rajasthan was the first state in the country to announce a State Road Policy in 1994.
  • The policy formulated the road map to connects places of religious and tourism importance and railway stations.
  • Organizations working in Rajasthan for the development of roads are Rajasthan State Road Development & Construction Corporation Limited, National Highway Authority of India, and Rajasthan State Road Development Corporation.
  • Pratap Singh Khachariyawas is the Transport Minister in the Government of Rajasthan.

Additional Information

• Nitin Gadkari is the Minister for Road Transport & Highways in the Union Government.
  • He is also the Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.

The correct answer is Rajasthan.

Key Points

• 'Ghaggar and Banas' are rivers that feed the state of Rajasthan.
• The Ghaggar is an intermittent river in India, flowing during the monsoon rains.
  • It originates in the village of Dagshai in the Shivalik Hills of Himachal Pradesh at an elevation of 1,927 meters (6,322 ft) above mean sea level and flows through Punjab and Haryana states into Rajasthan.
  • The main tributaries of the Ghaggar are the Kaushalya river, Markanda, Sarsuti, Tangri and Chautang.
• Banas River :
  • The Banas is a river that lies entirely within the state of Rajasthan in western India.
  • It is a tributary of the Chambal River, itself a tributary of the Yamuna, which in turn merges into the Ganga.
  • It flows northeast through the Mewar region of Rajasthan, then across Hadavati before meeting the Chambal near the village of Rameshwar in Sawai Madhopur District.

The correct answer is BIOS.

BIOS is not a computer operating system.

Important Points

• BIOS (basic input/output system)
  • It is a program that is used by a computer's microprocessor to start the computer system after it is powered on.
  • It also manages data flow between the computer's operating system (OS) and attached devices, such as the hard disk, video adapter, keyboard, mouse and printer.

Key Points

• The Unix
  • A Unix family is a diverse group of operating systems, with sub-categories including System V, BSD, and Linux.
  • The name "UNIX" is a trademark of The Open Group which licenses it for use with any operating system that has been shown to conform to their definitions. 
• macOS 
  • It is an open core graphical operating system.
  • It is developed, and marketed, and sold by Apple Inc.
• Microsoft Windows
  • It is a family of proprietary operating systems designed by Microsoft Corporation.
  • It is primarily targeted at Intel architecture based computers.

Additional Information

• Operating system
  • An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software.
  • An operating system is a large and complex system.
  • OS system components include:
    • File,
    • Process,
    • Memory,
    • I/O device management.

• In SQL, the function - avg, min, max, sum, count is called as aggregate function.
• Aggregate functions return a single value after calculating from a group of values.
• avg() function returns the average values, max() returns the maximum value, count() finds the number of rows that matches the specified condition, min() returns the minimum value, Max() returns the maximum value. sum() returns the sum of values.

Example:

SELECT AVG(salary

FROM employees

GROUP BY department_id;