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

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

2. Remote computing services involves the use of timesharing and

  • multiprocessing
  • interactive processing
  • batch processing
  • real time processing

3. Fragmentation of a file system

  • occurs only is file is not used properly
  • can always be prevented
  • happens in all file systems
  • can be removed by compaction

4. Dijkstra's algorithm deals with

  • mutual exclusion
  • deadlock recovery
  • deadlock avoidance
  • cache coherence

5. If the property of locality of reference is well pronounced in a program

  • the number of page faults will be more
  • the number of page faults will be less
  • the number of page faults will same
  • none of above
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