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(#M40167108) OPERATING SYSTEM QUESTION Application Software question Keep an EYE Keep an eye puzzle Keep an eye puzzle

Which of the given options is NOT an application software?

A. DOS
B. Microsoft Word
C. VLC media player
D. MySQL

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What are the reasons for process suspension?
1) swapping
2) interactive user request
3) timing
4) parent process request

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(#M40029477) OPERATING SYSTEM QUESTION operating system Keep an EYE Keep an eye puzzle Keep an eye puzzle

Q. What is busy waiting?

A. The repeated execution of a loop of code while waiting for an event to occur is called busy-waiting.
The CPU is not engaged in any real productive activity during this period, and the process does not progress toward completion

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(#M40153633) OPERATING SYSTEM QUESTION scheduling Keep an EYE Keep an eye puzzle Keep an eye puzzle

a computer memory is composed of 16k words of 8 bits

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(#M40029507) OPERATING SYSTEM QUESTION operating system Keep an EYE Keep an eye puzzle Keep an eye puzzle

Q. What are links and symbolic links in UNIX file system?

A. A link is a second name (not a file) for a file. Links can be used to assign more than one name to a file, but cannot be used to assign a directory more than one name or link filenames on different computers.
Symbolic link 'is' a file that only contains the name of another file.Operation on the symbolic link is directed to the file pointed by the it.Both the limitations of links are eliminated in symbolic links.
Commands for linking files are:
Link ln filename1 filename2
Symbolic link ln -s filename1 filename2

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(#M40029496) OPERATING SYSTEM QUESTION operating system Keep an EYE Keep an eye puzzle Keep an eye puzzle

Q. What is Dispatcher?

A. Dispatcher module gives control of the CPU to the process selected by the short-term scheduler; this involves: Switching context, Switching to user mode, Jumping to the proper location in the user program to restart that program, dispatch latency - time it takes for the dispatcher to stop one process and start another running.

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Q. What is a device queue?

A. A list of processes waiting for a particular I/O device is called device queue.

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Q. What is thrashing?

A. It is a phenomenon in virtual memory schemes when the processor spends most of its time swapping pages, rather than executing instructions. This is due to an inordinate number of page faults

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Q. What is process synchronization?

A. A situation, where several processes access and manipulate the same data concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which the access takes place, is called race condition. To guard against the race condition we need to ensure that only one process at a time can be manipulating the same data. The technique we use for this is called process synchronization.

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Which is the best page replacement algorithm and Why? How much time is spent usually in
each phases and why?

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