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A thread is

lightweight process where the context switching is low
lightweight process where the context swithching is high
used to speed up paging
used in dead locks

Answer: Option A

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1. Dynamic allocation of storage areas with VSAM files is accomplished by

hashing
control splits
over flow areas
relative recording

Answer: Option B

2. Dispatcher function is to

put tasks in I/O wait
schedule tasks in processor
change task priorities
All of above

Answer: Option A

3. Which among following scheduling algorithms give minimum average waiting time

FCFS
SJF
Round robin
On priority

Answer: Option B

4. Poor response times are caused by

Busy processor
High I/O rate
High paging rates
Any of above

Answer: Option D

5. Banker's algorithm deals with

deadlock prevention
deadlock avoidance
deadlock recovery
mutual exclusion

Answer: Option B

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