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Disk scheduling includes deciding

  • which should be accessed next
  • order in which disk access requests must be serviced
  • the physical location of the file
  • the logical location of the file
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1. Which scheduling policy is best suited for time-sharing operating systems

  • Shortest job first
  • Round robin
  • First come first serve
  • Elevator

2. Dijkstra's algorithm deals with

  • mutual exclusion
  • deadlock recovery
  • deadlock avoidance
  • cache coherence

3. Which technique is used by operating systems to execute several programs concurrently by switching back and forth

  • Partitioning
  • Multitasking
  • Windowing
  • Paging

4. If the property of locality of reference is well pronounced in a program

  • the number of page faults will be more
  • the number of page faults will be less
  • the number of page faults will same
  • none of above

5. Semophores are used to solve the problem of

  • race condition
  • process synchronization
  • mutual exclusion
  • belady problem
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