Q. Match the following mechanisms for interrupting the execution of a process and their uses.

i) Interrupt a) Call to an operating system function
ii) Trap b) Reaction to an asynchronous external event
iii) Supervisor Call c) Handling of a error or an exception condition

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Q. In process scheduling, …………………… determines when new processes are admitted to the system.

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Q. In process scheduling, ………………… determines which ready process will be executed next by processor.

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Q. Throughput of a system is

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Q. Round robin scheduling is essentially the preemptive version of ...........

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Q. The process that are residing in the main memory and are waiting to execute are kept on a list called the ............

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Q. Special software to create a job queue is called a

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Q. The strategy of allowing processes that are logically runnable to be temporarily suspended is called

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Q. The FIFO algorithm

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Q. The CPU, after receiving an interrupt from an I/O device

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Q. Seeks analysis

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Q. The dispatcher

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Q. The SJF algorithm executes first the job

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Q. Scheduling is

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Q. What scheduling algorithm allows processes that are logical runnable to be temporarily suspended?

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Q. Round-robin scheduling

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Q. The main function of the dispatcher (the portion of the process scheduler) is

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Q. Feed back queue

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Q. The term 'polling' in a computer means a process by which a computer system

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Q. Indicate which is a pre-emptive scheduling algorithm

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