Q. A set of resources' allocations such that the system can allocate resources to each process in some order, and still avoid a deadlock is called ________.

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Q. Situations where two or more processes are reading or writing some shared data and the final results depends on the order of usage of the shared data, are called ________.

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Q. When two or more processes attempt to access the same resource a _________ occurs.

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Q. A process is starved

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Q. Let S and Q be two semaphores initialized to 1, where P0 and P1 processes the following statements wait(S);wait(Q); ---; signal(S);signal(Q) and wait(Q); wait(S);---;signal(Q);signal(S); respectively. The above situation depicts a _________ .

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Q. The state of a process after it encounters an I/O instruction is __________.

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Q. The Banker's algorithm is used

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Q. ______ is a high level abstraction over Semaphore.

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Q. In one of the deadlock prevention methods, impose a total ordering of all resource types, and require that each process requests resources in an increasing order of enumeration. This voilates the _______________ condition of deadlock.

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Q. Banker's algorithm for resource allocation deals with ?

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Q. What is the maximum number of processes that may enter simultaneously inside the critical section to avoid race condition ?

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Q. What are global locks ?

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Q. Semophores are used to solve the problem of

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Q. Semaphores function is to

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Q. Four necessary conditions for deadlock are non pre-emption, circular wait, hold and wait and

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Q. Banker's algorithm deals with

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Q. Which of following is not a condition of Dead Lock ?

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Q. A solution to the Dining Philosophers Problem which avoids deadlock is 

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Q. Let m[0]…m[4] be mutexes (binary semaphores) and P[0] …. P[4] be processes. 
Suppose each process P[i] executes the following: 
  wait (m[i]);wait (m[(i+1) mode 4]); 
  .........
  release (m[i]); release (m[(i+1)mod 4]); 
This could cause 

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Q. What are the necessary conditions to occur the deadlock?

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