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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. In which scheduling policies, context switching never takes place

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

2. Operating system is

  • A collection of hardware components
  • A collection of input output devices
  • A collection of software routines
  • All of above

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

  • Partitioning
  • Multitasking
  • Windowing
  • Paging

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

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

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