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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. Problem of thrashing is affected significantly by

program structure
program size
primary storage size
all of above

Answer: Option A

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

FCFS
SJF
Round robin
On priority

Answer: Option B

3. Macintosh computer uses

System 7.0
AU/X
Xenix
none of above

Answer: Option B

4. Which one is true

The linkage editor is used to edit programs which have to later link together
The linkage editor links object module during compiling
The linkage editor links objects modules and resolves external references between them before loading
none of above

Answer: Option C

5. Semaphores function is to

synchronize critical resources to prevent deadlock
synchronize processes for better CPU utilization
used for memory management
none of above

Answer: Option A

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