Q. The memory allocation scheme subjected to “external” fragmentation is:

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Q. Producer consumer problem can be solved using:

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Q. Banker’s algorithm is used for ................... purpose.

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Q. Bankers algorithm is for

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Q. Which is the correct definition of a valid process transition in an operating system ?

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Q. Semaphores are used to:

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Q. In which of the following storage replacement strategies, is a program placed in the largest available hole in the memory?

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Q. Remote computing system involves the use of timesharing systems and:

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Q. Match the following

(a) Disk scheduling                 (1) Round robin
(b) Batch processing               (2) Scan
(c) Time sharing                       (3) LIFO
(d) Interrupt processing          (4) FIFO

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Q. IC 80287 is:

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Q. A solution to external fragmentation.

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Q. Not a storage placement strategy for an incoming program/data:

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Q. A preemptive type of process scheduling strategy:

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Q. When a process is accessing shared modifiable data, the process is said to be in:

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Q. The first MPI function call made by every MPI process is the call to:

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Q. Dijkstra’s Banker’s algorithm is used for:

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Q. Memory bank experiencing too much contention from processor:

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Q. Consider a disk pack with 32 surfaces, 64 tracks and 512 sectors per pack. 256 bytes of data are stored in a bit serial manner in a sector. The number of bits required to specify a particular sector in the disk is

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Q. Consider a system with 2 level cache. Access times of Level 1 cache, Level 2 cache and main memory are 0.5 ns, 5 ns and 100 ns respectively. The hit rates of Level 1 and Level 2 caches are 0.7 and 0.8 respectively. What is the average access time of the system ignoring the search time within the cache?

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Q. To overcome difficulties in Readers-Writers problem, which of the following statement/s is/are true?

(i) Writers are given exclusive access to shared objects
(ii) Readers are given exclusive access to shared objects
(iii) Both Readers and Writers are given exclusive access to shared objects

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