OS (Module-III)

Which of the following problems occur in a multiprogramming environment?

• Critical Section problem
• Deadlock problem
• Race condition problem
• All of these

Which of the following solution is used for solving critical section problem?

• Monitors
• Semaphores
• Mutex locks
• All of these

What is the purpose of synchronization hardware?

• To prevent race condition
• To prevent deadlock
• To implement mutual exclusion
• To manage I/O operations

Which of the following problem(s) can be solved using synchronization primitives?

• Producer-Consumer problem
• Dining philosophers problem
• Readers-Writers problem
• All of these

In the Banker’s algorithm, what is the maximum amount of resources that can be allocated to a process?

• Maximum need of the process
• Maximum available resources in the system
• Both of these
• None of these

Which of the following is a necessary condition for the occurrence of a deadlock?

• Mutual exclusion
• Hold and wait
• No preemption
• All of these

Which of the following is used to represent the resource allocation graph in deadlock detection?

• Directed graph
• Undirected graph
• Tree
• None of these

In deadlock avoidance, what is the maximum number of resources that can be allocated to a process?

• Maximum need of the process
• Maximum available resources in the system
• Both of these
• None of these

Which of the following is a recovery method for deadlock?

• Resource preemption
• Process termination
• Both of these
• None of these

In the producer-consumer problem, which synchronization primitive is used to signal the availability of a resource?

• Semaphore
• Mutex lock
• Monitor
• Barrier