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Q91.
Suppose S and Q are two semaphores initialized to 1. P1 and P2 are two processes which are sharing resources.

P1 has statements                 P2 has statements
wait(S) ;                                     wait(Q) ;
wait(Q) ;                                     wait(S) ;
critical section1;                       critical section 2;
signal(S) ;                                 signal(Q) ;
signal(Q) ;                                 signal(S) ;

Their execution may sometimes lead to an undesirable situation called
Discuss
Answer: (d).Deadlock
Q92.
An operating system using banker’s algorithm for deadlock avoidance has ten dedicated devices (of same type) and has three processes P1, P2 and P3 with maximum resource requirements of 4, 5 and 8 respectively. There are two states of allocation of devices as follows:

State 1   Processes                 P1       P2       P3
Devices allocated    2          3          4

State 2   Processes                 P1       P2       P3
Devices allocated    0          2          4

Which of the following is correct?
Discuss
Answer: (a).State 1 is unsafe and state 2 is safe.
Q93.
Let the time taken to switch between user mode and kernel mode of execution be T1 while time taken to switch between two user processes be T2. Which of the following is correct?
Discuss
Answer: (a).T1 < T2
Q94.
Working set model is used in memory management to implement the concept of
Discuss
Answer: (b).Principal of Locality
Q95.
A thread is usually defined as a light weight process because an Operating System (OS) maintains smaller data structure for a thread than for a process. In relation to this, which of the following statement is correct?
Discuss
Answer: (b).OS maintains only CPU registers for each thread.
Q96.
The versions of windows operating system like windows XP and window Vista uses following file system:
Discuss
Answer: (d).All of the above
Q97.
Pre-emptive scheduling is the strategy of temporarily suspending a gunning process
Discuss
Answer: (a).before the CPU time slice expires
Q98.
In round robin CPU scheduling as time quantum is increased the average turn around time
Discuss
Answer: (d).varies irregularly
Q99.
Consider the following page trace : 4,3, 2, 1, 4, 3, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 5. Percentage of page fault that would occur if FIFO page replacement algorithm is used with number of frames for the JOB m=4 will be
Discuss
Answer: (c).10
Q100.
Which of the following is scheme to deal with deadlock ?
Discuss
Answer: (a).Time out

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