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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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1. Main function of shared memory is:

  • to use primary memory efficently
  • to do intra process communication
  • to do inter process communication
  • none of above

2. Reference bit is used for

  • Implementing LRU page replacement algorithm
  • Implementing NRU algorithm
  • To check the page table entry in the cache memory
  • none of above

3. In real time OS, which is most suitable scheduling scheme

  • round robin
  • FCFS
  • pre-emptive scheduling
  • random scheduling

4. Banker's algorithm deals with

  • deadlock prevention
  • deadlock avoidance
  • deadlock recovery
  • mutual exclusion

5. Macintosh computer uses

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