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Operating system is

  • A collection of hardware components
  • A collection of input output devices
  • A collection of software routines
  • All of above
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1. Which of following is not a condition of Dead Lock ?

  • Mutual Exclusion
  • No Preemption
  • Hold and Wait
  • Data Transfer

2. In which scheduling policies, context switching never takes place

  • FCFS
  • round robin
  • Shortest job first
  • Pre-empitive

3. Scissoring enables

  • a part of data to be displayed
  • entire data to be displayed
  • full data display on fulll area of sceen
  • no data display

4. For multiprogramming operating system

  • special support from processor is essential
  • special support from processor is not essential
  • cache memory is essential
  • none of above

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

  • Partitioning
  • Multitasking
  • Windowing
  • Paging
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