MCQ Bank

A signal in a Unix-like operating system is used to:

Deadlock detection allows deadlocks to occur and then:

The C-SCAN disk scheduling algorithm differs from SCAN by:

A multiprogramming operating system aims primarily to:

Shared memory as an IPC mechanism allows processes to communicate by:

A safe state in the context of deadlock avoidance is one where:

Peterson's solution is a classic software approach to:

The Shortest Seek Time First (SSTF) disk scheduling algorithm selects the request that is:

Virtualization in computing allows:

A named pipe (FIFO) is a mechanism for:

The critical-section problem requires a solution that satisfies mutual exclusion, progress, and:

The dining philosophers problem is a classic illustration of:

The fork() system call in Unix-like systems is used to:

Demand paging loads a page into memory:

Time-sharing (multitasking) operating systems give the illusion of concurrency by:

Contiguous memory allocation can suffer primarily from:

A real-time operating system is primarily characterized by:

The working set of a process is defined as the set of pages:

The exec() family of system calls is used to:

The purpose of a boot loader is to: