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1. The first problem in selecting a scheduling algorithm is defining the _________ to be used
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2. In __________ capacity buffer, the sender must block until the recipient receives the message
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3. Blocking message passing is known as _________
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4. The advantage of dynamic loading is that an _________ routine is never loaded
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5. 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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6. The task of terminating a thread before it has completed is called thread __________
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7. With dynamic loading, a routine is not loaded until it is ________
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8. _______ is the most general scheduling scheme, and also the most complex
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9. ________ Time is the interval from the time of submission of a process to the time of completion
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10. The class of OS that has very little user-interface capability, and no end-user utilities is __________ OS
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11. Under which of the following circumstances can CPU scheduling decisions take place?
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12. __________ synchronization refers to the idea of keeping multiple copies of a data-set in coherence with one another.
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13. The _________ is the module that gives control of the CPU to the process selected by the short-term scheduler
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14. The goal of ___________ is to shuffle the memory contents to place all free memory together in one large block
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15. Paging is a form of ______ relocation
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16. A nano-kernel is a very _________ operating system kernel
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17. ______ different types of implementation models relate fibers and kernel level threads
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18. An I/O-bound program would typically have many very short ___________ bursts
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19. A solution to indefinite blocking of low-priority processes is __________
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20. The selection of the first-fit versus best-fit strategies can affect the amount of _________
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21. Which of the following schemes requires help from the operating system?
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22. The criteria for comparing CPU-scheduling algorithms include the following except: ________
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23. ________ deadlocks are deadlocks that are detected in a distributed system but don't actually exist .
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24. In which of the following address-binding scheme is the logical- and physical-address spaces differ?
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25. Analytical methods of CPU scheduling algorithm evaluation use ____________ analysis to determine the performance of an algorithm
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26. Which of the following memory management algorithm suffers from external fragmentation?
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27. In which of the following ways can a signal be delivered?
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28. For the Banker's algorithm to work, it needs to know ________ things
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29. Canceling a thread _________ may not free a necessary system-wide resource.
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30. The behaviour of the processes __________ unsafe states
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31. Which of the following scheduling algorithms is a type of priority scheduling algorithm?
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32. _________ is a technique of gradually increasing the priority of processes that wait in the system for a long time
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33. With dynamic linking, a ______ is included in the image for each library-routine reference
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34. Which of the following does the Banker's algorithm need to know to work?
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35. A process goes from the ‘Ready’ state to ________ state
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36. Turnaround Time does not include which of the following?
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37. 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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38. When a process creates a new process, _____ possibilities exist in terms of execution
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39. In Unbounded capacity buffer, the sender never ______
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40. ________ deadlocks can occur in distributed systems when distributed transactions or concurrency control is being used.
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41. In a system that selects victims for rollback primarily on the basis of cost factors, _________ may occur
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42. Under dynamic ___________ , all processes that use a language library execute only one copy of the library code
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43. The benefits of multi-threading include the following except: ________
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44. Cancellation of a target thread may occur in ______ different scenarios
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45. The concept of logical address space that is bound to a separate physical-address space is __________ to proper memory management
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46. Every logical address is bounded by the paging hardware to some ________ address
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47. Which of the following does the Banker's algorithm need to know to work?
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48. _________ signals are delivered to the same process that performed the operation causing the signal
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49. The ________ mapping from virtual to physical addresses is done by the memory-management unit
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50. Under ________, all processes that use a language library execute only one copy of the library code
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