CIT211
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A. Analytical methods of CPU scheduling algorithm evaluation use ____________ analysis to determine the performance of an algorithm
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B. The _________ is the module that gives control of the CPU to the process selected by the short-term scheduler
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C. In which of the following ways can a signal be delivered?
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D. For the Banker's algorithm to work, it needs to know ________ things
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E. _______ is the most general scheduling scheme, and also the most complex
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F. A process goes from the ‘Ready’ state to ________ state
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G. In which of the following address-binding scheme is the logical- and physical-address spaces differ?
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H. Canceling a thread _________ may not free a necessary system-wide resource.
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I. The benefits of multi-threading include the following except: ________
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J. The decision to place the operating system in either low memory or high memory is affected by the location of the ________ vector
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K. Turnaround Time does not include which of the following?
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L. The class of OS that has very little user-interface capability, and no end-user utilities is __________ OS
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M. __________ synchronization refers to the idea of keeping multiple copies of a data-set in coherence with one another.
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N. Deadlock _______ requires that the operating system be given in advance additional information concerning which resources a process will request and use during its lifetime
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O. The advantage of dynamic loading is that an _________ routine is never loaded
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P. Blocking message passing is known as _________
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Q. The behaviour of the processes __________ unsafe states
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R. The goal of ___________ is to shuffle the memory contents to place all free memory together in one large block
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S. The selection of the first-fit versus best-fit strategies can affect the amount of _________
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T. Cancellation of a target thread may occur in ______ different scenarios
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U. Under dynamic ___________ , all processes that use a language library execute only one copy of the library code
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V. Which of the following schemes requires help from the operating system?
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W. The task of terminating a thread before it has completed is called thread __________
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X. The ________ mapping from virtual to physical addresses is done by the memory-management unit
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Y. A nano-kernel is a very _________ operating system kernel
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Z. With dynamic linking, a ______ is included in the image for each library-routine reference
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AA. The concept of logical address space that is bound to a separate physical-address space is __________ to proper memory management
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AB. ________ deadlocks can occur in distributed systems when distributed transactions or concurrency control is being used.
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AC. The criteria for comparing CPU-scheduling algorithms include the following except: ________
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AD. In a system that selects victims for rollback primarily on the basis of cost factors, _________ may occur
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AE. Which of the following does the Banker's algorithm need to know to work?
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AF. _________ is a technique of gradually increasing the priority of processes that wait in the system for a long time
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AG. A solution to indefinite blocking of low-priority processes is __________
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AH. In __________ capacity buffer, the sender must block until the recipient receives the message
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AI. ________ Time is the interval from the time of submission of a process to the time of completion
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AJ. Every logical address is bounded by the paging hardware to some ________ address
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AK. ________ deadlocks are deadlocks that are detected in a distributed system but don't actually exist .
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AL. The first problem in selecting a scheduling algorithm is defining the _________ to be used
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AM. An I/O-bound program would typically have many very short ___________ bursts
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AN. Paging is a form of ______ relocation
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AO. Which of the following memory management algorithm suffers from external fragmentation?
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AP. Under which of the following circumstances can CPU scheduling decisions take place?
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AQ. With dynamic loading, a routine is not loaded until it is ________
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AR. Under ________, all processes that use a language library execute only one copy of the library code
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AS. Which of the following does the Banker's algorithm need to know to work?
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AT. When a process creates a new process, _____ possibilities exist in terms of execution
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AU. In Unbounded capacity buffer, the sender never ______
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AV. Which of the following scheduling algorithms is a type of priority scheduling algorithm?
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AW. _________ signals are delivered to the same process that performed the operation causing the signal
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AX. ______ different types of implementation models relate fibers and kernel level threads
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