The primary distinction between the short term scheduler and the long term scheduler is

In a time-sharing operating system, when the time slot given to a process is completed, the process goes from the running state to the

Which of the following state transitions is not possible ?

If a process is executing in its critical section, then no other processes can be executing in their critical section. This is called

Which one of the following is a synchronization tool

Semaphore is a/an _______ to solve the critical section problem.

A program in execution is called

The Banker’s algorithm is used

What is dispatch latency?

____ section is dynamically allocated memory to a process during its run time

A process generally also includes the process ______, which contains temporary data (such as function parameters, return addresses, and local variables)

Process control block (PCB) contains which of the following

The list of processes waiting for a particular I/O device is called a________

Switching the CPU to another process requires performing a state save of the current process and a state restore of a different process. This task is known as a ____________.

Thread shares with other threads belonging to the same process its

User threads

Which of the following statement is True for Aging

Several processes access and manipulate the same data concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in execution