Exam 10: Process Scheduling and Synchronization in Multi-Programming Environment

When high priority task is indirectly preempted by medium priority task effectively inverting the relative priority of the two tasks, the scenario is called

What is a short-term scheduler?___________      

Which of the following does not interrupt a running process?

If all processes I/O bound, the ready queue will almost always be___________  and the Short term Scheduler will have a___________  to do.

The context of a process in the PCB of a process does not contain___________      

A monitor is a module that encapsulates

When the process issues an I/O request

What is a medium-term scheduler?

Mutual exclusion can be provided by the

To enable a process to wait within the monitor___________      

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

Which of the following need not necessarily be saved on a context switch between processes?

Which of the following do not belong to queues for processes?

When several processes access the same data concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which the access takes place, is called?

In a multiprogramming environment

What is the objective of multiprogramming?

What is a long-term scheduler?

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

A single thread of control allows the process to perform___________      

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