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Q11.

A process said to be in ___________ state if it was waiting for an event that will never occur.

Safe

Unsafe

Starvation

Dead lock

Discuss

Answer: (d).Dead lock

Q12.

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 violates the _______________ condition of deadlock.

Mutual exclusion

Hold and Wait

Circular Wait

No Preemption

Discuss

Answer: (c).Circular Wait

Q13.

Resource locking ________.

Allows multiple tasks to simultaneously use resourc

Forces only one task to use any resource at any time

Can easily cause a dead lock condition

Is not used for disk drives

Discuss

Answer: (b).Forces only one task to use any resource at any time

Q14.

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 ________.

Unsafe state

Safe state

Starvation

Greeedy allocation

Discuss

Answer: (b).Safe state

Q15.

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 ________.

Race conditions

Critical section

Mutual exclusion

Dead locks

Discuss

Answer: (a). Race conditions

Q16.

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

Critical section

Fight

Communication problem

Race condition

Discuss

Answer: (d).Race condition

Q17.

A process is starved

if it is permanently waiting for a resource

if semaphores are not used

if a queue is not used for scheduling

if demand paging is not properly implemented

Discuss

Answer: (a).if it is permanently waiting for a resource

Q18.

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 _________ .

Semaphore

Deadlock

Signal

Interrupt

Discuss

Answer: (b).Deadlock

Q19.

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

Ready

Blocked/Waiting

Idle

Running

Discuss

Answer: (b).Blocked/Waiting

Q20.

The Banker's algorithm is used

to prevent deadlock in operating systems

to detect deadlock in operating systems

to rectify a deadlocked state

none of the above

Discuss

Answer: (a).to prevent deadlock in operating systems

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OS Basics

System Calls

Processes and Threads

CPU Scheduling

Process Synchronization

Files Management

Storage Management

Mass Storage Structure

IO Systems

Protection and Security

Distributed Systems

Real Time Systems

Swapping

Virtual Memory

Page Replacement Algorithms

File System Implementation

Files and Directories

Linux System

Disk Operating System (DOS)

Unix System

Windows NT

Windows 2000 Server

Windows Operating System

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