Which of the following statements are true? (GATE 2010) i) Shortest remaining time first scheduling may cause starvation ii) Preemptive scheduling may cause starvation iii) Round robin is better than FCFS in terms of response time

A. I only
B. I and iii only
C. Ii and iii only
D. I, ii and iii

A solution to the problem of indefinite blockage of low – priority processes is ____________

A. Starvation
B. Wait queue
C. Ready queue
D. Aging

What is ‘Aging’?

A. Keeping track of cache contents
B. Keeping track of what pages are currently residing in memory
C. Keeping track of how many times a given page is referenced
D. Increasing the priority of jobs to ensure termination in a finite time

Choose one of the disadvantages of the priority scheduling algorithm?

A. It schedules in a very complex manner
B. Its scheduling takes up a lot of time
C. It can lead to some low priority process waiting indefinitely for the cpu
D. None of the mentioned

An SJF algorithm is simply a priority algorithm where the priority is ____________

A. The predicted next cpu burst
B. The inverse of the predicted next cpu burst
C. The current cpu burst
D. Anything the user wants

Preemptive Shortest Job First scheduling is sometimes called ____________

A. Fast sjf scheduling
B. Edf scheduling €? earliest deadline first
C. Hrrn scheduling €? highest response ratio next
D. Srtn scheduling €? shortest remaining time next

Consider the following set of processes, the length of the CPU burst time given in milliseconds. Process Burst time P1 6 P2 8 P3 7 P4 3 Assuming the above process being scheduled with the SJF scheduling algorithm.

A. The waiting time for process p1 is 3ms
B. The waiting time for process p1 is 0ms
C. The waiting time for process p1 is 16ms
D. The waiting time for process p1 is 9ms

The real difficulty with SJF in short term scheduling is ____________

A. It is too good an algorithm
B. Knowing the length of the next cpu request
C. It is too complex to understand
D. None of the mentioned

Which is the most optimal scheduling algorithm?

A. Fcfs €? first come first served
B. Sjf €? shortest job first
C. Rr €? round robin
D. None of the mentioned

SMTP is not used to deliver messages to ______

A. User’s terminal
B. User’s mailbox
C. User’s word processor
D. User’s email client