operating system

1)Which process can be affected by other processes executing in the system?

• cooperating process

• child process

• parent process

• init process

2)What are the operations that can be invoked on a condition variable?

• wait & signal

• hold & wait

• signal & hold

• continue & signal

Which of the following conditions must be satisfied to solve the critical section problem?

• Mutual Exclusion

• Progress

• Bounded Waiting

• All of the mentioned

The wait operation of the semaphore basically works on the basic _______ system call.

• stop()

• block()

• hold()

• wait()

What is a semaphore?

• is a binary mutex

• must be accessed from only one process

• can be accessed from multiple processes

• none of the mentioned

What are the two kinds of semaphores?

• mutex & counting

• binary & counting

• counting & decimal

• decimal & binary