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Poor response times are caused by

Busy processor
High I/O rate
High paging rates
Any of above

Answer: Option D

Similar Questions :

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

FCFS
round robin
Shortest job first
Pre-empitive

Answer: Option A

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. Which is single user operating system

MS-DOS
UNIX
XENIX
LINUX

Answer: Option A

4. A hardware device which is capable of executing a sequence of instructions, is known as

CPU
ALU
CU
Processor

Answer: Option D

5. Dynamic allocation of storage areas with VSAM files is accomplished by

hashing
control splits
over flow areas
relative recording

Answer: Option B

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