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Memory protection is normally done by

  • the processor and the associated hardware
  • the operating system
  • the compiler
  • the user program
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1. Which of the following does not interrupt an running process

  • A device
  • Timer
  • Schedular Process
  • Power failure

2. Which scheduling policy is best suited for time-sharing operating systems

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

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

  • mutual exclusion
  • race condition
  • buffer overflow
  • None of above

4. Dijkstra's algorithm deals with

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

5. Problem of thrashing is affected significantly by

  • program structure
  • program size
  • primary storage size
  • all of above
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