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

  • Partitioning
  • Multitasking
  • Windowing
  • Paging

Answer: Option C

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

  • Partitioning
  • Multitasking
  • Windowing
  • Paging

Answer: Option C

2. A thread is

  • lightweight process where the context switching is low
  • lightweight process where the context swithching is high
  • used to speed up paging
  • used in dead locks

Answer: Option A

3. Macintosh computer uses

  • System 7.0
  • AU/X
  • Xenix
  • none of above

Answer: Option B

4. 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

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

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

Answer: Option A

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  • praveen 8 years ago

    Which technique is used by operating systems to execute several programs concurrently by switching back and forth
    Partitioning
    Multitasking
    Windowing
    Paging

    Answer is B

  • hema 10 years ago

    answer is B

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