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Four necessary conditions for deadlock are non pre-emption, circular wait, hold and wait and

mutual exclusion
race condition
buffer overflow
None of above

Answer: Option A

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1. Banker's algorithm deals with

deadlock prevention
deadlock avoidance
deadlock recovery
mutual exclusion

Answer: Option B

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

Defined values
Fixed values
Default values
None of the above

Answer: Option C

3. 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

Answer: Option B

4. Shortest Job First executes first the job

with the least processor needs
that first entered the queue
that has been in the queue for the longest
that last entered the queue

Answer: Option A

5. Which of the following does not interrupt an running process

A device
Timer
Schedular Process
Power failure

Answer: Option C

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