System Administrator 2026
The two ways of aborting processes and eliminating deadlocks are ____________
  • A. Abort all deadlocked processes
  • B. Abort all processes
  • C. Abort one process at a time until the deadlock cycle is eliminated
  • D. All of the mentioned
Those processes should be aborted on occurrence of a deadlock, the termination of which?
  • A. Is more time consuming
  • B. Incurs minimum cost
  • C. Safety is not hampered
  • D. All of the mentioned
The process to be aborted is chosen on the basis of the following factors?
  • A. Priority of the process
  • B. Process is interactive or batch
  • C. How long the process has computed
  • D. All of the mentioned
Cost factors for process termination include ____________
  • A. Number of resources the deadlock process is not holding
  • B. Cpu utilization at the time of deadlock
  • C. Amount of time a deadlocked process has thus far consumed during its execution
  • D. All of the mentioned
To _______ to a safe state, the system needs to keep more information about the states of processes.
  • A. Abort the process
  • B. Roll back the process
  • C. Queue the process
  • D. None of the mentioned
What is the solution to starvation?
  • A. The number of rollbacks must be included in the cost factor
  • B. The number of resources must be included in resource preemption
  • C. Resource preemption be done instead
  • D. All of the mentioned
Each request requires that the system consider the _____________ to decide whether the current request can be satisfied or must wait to avoid a future possible deadlock.
  • A. Resources currently available
  • B. Processes that have previously been in the system
  • C. Resources currently allocated to each process
  • D. Future requests and releases of each process