Test 2 : Unit 2

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Understanding Process Management in Operating Systems

This quiz is designed to test your knowledge on critical concepts related to process management in operating systems. With a series of questions, you'll get to explore various aspects that govern how processes interact within a system.

Whether you're a student or a professional, this quiz can help reinforce your understanding of key topics:

Cooperating processes
Semaphore operations
Logical address space conventions
Mutual exclusion methods

7 Questions2 MinutesCreated by ManagingData42

1.Which of the following process can be affected by other processes during execution in the system?

Init process

Child process

Parent process

Cooperating process

A semaphore is a shared integer variable __________

That can not be more than zero

That can not drop below one

That can not drop below zero

That can not be more than one

3.If the size of logical address space is 2 to the power of m, and a page size is 2 to the power of n addressing units, then the high order _____ bits of a logical address designate the page number, and the ____ low order bits designate the page offset.

M, n

N, m

M – n, n

M – n, m

4.Consider the methods used by processes P1 and P2 for accessing their critical sections whenever needed, as given below. The initial values of shared boolean variables S1 and S2 are randomly assigned.

A. Mutual exclusion but not progress

B. Progress but not mutual exclusion

C. Neither mutual exclusion nor progress

D. Both mutual exclusion and progress

7. The Hardware implementation which provides mutual exclusion is

A)Semaphore

B)Peterson’s Solution

C)Test & Set

D) Both a & b

Test 2 : Unit 2

Understanding Process Management in Operating Systems

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