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Which of the following does not interrupt an running process

A device
Timer
Schedular Process
Power failure

Answer: Option C

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1. The part of machine level instruction, which tells the central processor what has to be done, is

Operation code
Address
Locator
Flip-Flop

Answer: Option A

2. Dijkstra's algorithm deals with

mutual exclusion
deadlock recovery
deadlock avoidance
cache coherence

Answer: Option C

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

FCFS
SJF
Round robin
On priority

Answer: Option B

4. 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

5. A public key encryption system

Allows only the correct sender to decode the data
Allows only the correct receiver to decode the data
Allows anyone to decode the data
none of above

Answer: Option B

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