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  • Question
  • The strategy of allowing processes that are logically runnable to be temporarily suspended is called


  • Options
  • A. preemptive scheduling
  • B. non preemptive scheduling
  • C. shortest job first
  • D. first come first served
  • E. None of the above

  • Correct Answer
  • preemptive scheduling 


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    • 1. What is the name given to the values that are automatically provided by software to reduce keystrokes and improve a computer user's productivity?

    • Options
    • A. Defined values
    • B. Fixed values
    • C. Default values
    • D. Special values
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 2. Memory

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    • A. is a device that performs a sequence of operations specified by instructions in memory.
    • B. is the device where information is stored
    • C. is a sequence of instructions
    • D. is typically characterized by interactive processing and time-slicing of the CPU's time to allow quick response to each user.
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 3. Which of the following are(is) Language Processor(s)

    • Options
    • A. assembles
    • B. compilers
    • C. interpreters
    • D. All of the above
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 4. Assembly code data base is associated with

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    • A. assembly language version of the program which is created by the code generation phase and is input to the assembly phase.
    • B. a permanent table of decision rules in the form of patterns for matching with the uniform symbol table to discover syntactic structure.
    • C. consists of a full or partial list or the token's as they appear in the program. Created by Lexical analysis and used for syntax analysis and interpretation.
    • D. a permanent table which lists all key words and special symbols of the language in symbolic form.
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 5. In which addressing mode the contents of a register specified in the instruction are first decremented, and then these contents are used as the effective address of the operands?

    • Options
    • A. index addressing
    • B. indirect addressing
    • C. auto increment
    • D. auto decrement
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 6. The LRU algorithm

    • Options
    • A. pages out pages that have been used recently
    • B. pages out pages that have not been used recently
    • C. pages out pages that have been least used recently
    • D. pages out the first page in a given area
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 7. To avoid the race condition, the number of processes that may be simultaneously inside their critical section is

    • Options
    • A. 8
    • B. 1
    • C. 16
    • D. 0
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 8. In MS-DOS 5.0, which is the number that acts as a code to uniquely identify the software product?

    • Options
    • A. MS
    • B. DOS
    • C. MS DOS
    • D. 5.0
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 9. Process is

    • Options
    • A. program in High level language kept on disk
    • B. contents of main memory
    • C. a program in execution
    • D. a job in secondary memory
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 10. Resolution of externally defined symbols is performed by

    • Options
    • A. Linker
    • B. Loader
    • C. Compiler
    • D. Assembler
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss


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