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NPTEL-Operating System,-Week2-Quiz-1-Q2

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State true or false. With Reason

  1.  In a Micro-Kernel based OS, different modules communicate with each other using message passing. This is a secure way to enable communication.
  2.  In a Modular OS, kernel modules can directly call any other module. This, however, suffers from efficiency issues
  3. Synchronous i/o is advantageous because it results in faster execution of the user program.
  4. Asynchronous i/o is disadvantageous because it requires more hardware/software changes such as System calls and Device status enable bits.
  5. In a Micro-Kernel based OS, different modules communicate with each other using message passing. This is a secure way to enable communication.
  6. In a Modular OS, kernel modules can directly call any other module. This, however, suffers from efficiency issues.
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