In distributed systems, election algorithms assumes that ____________

• A. A unique priority number is associated with each active process in system
• B. There is no priority number associated with any process
• C. Priority of the processes is not required
• D. None of the mentioned

According to the ring algorithm, links between processes are ____________

• A. Bidirectional
• B. Unidirectional
• C. Both bidirectional and unidirectional
• D. None of the mentioned

The number of resources requested by a process ____________

• A. Must always be less than the total number of resources available in the system
• B. Must always be equal to the total number of resources available in the system
• C. Must not exceed the total number of resources available in the system
• D. Must exceed the total number of resources available in the system

The request and release of resources are ___________

• A. Command line statements
• B. Interrupts
• C. System calls
• D. Special programs

What are Multithreaded programs?

• A. Lesser prone to deadlocks
• B. More prone to deadlocks
• C. Not at all prone to deadlocks
• D. None of the mentioned

For a deadlock to arise, which of the following conditions must hold simultaneously?

• A. Mutual exclusion
• B. No preemption
• C. Hold and wait
• D. All of the mentioned

For Mutual exclusion to prevail in the system ____________

• A. At least one resource must be held in a non sharable mode
• B. The processor must be a uniprocessor rather than a multiprocessor
• C. There must be at least one resource in a sharable mode
• D. All of the mentioned

For a Hold and wait condition to prevail ____________

• A. A process must be not be holding a resource, but waiting for one to be freed, and then request to acquire it
• B. A process must be holding at least one resource and waiting to acquire additional resources that are being held by other processes
• C. A process must hold at least one resource and not be waiting to acquire additional resources
• D. None of the mentioned

Deadlock prevention is a set of methods ____________

• A. To ensure that at least one of the necessary conditions cannot hold
• B. To ensure that all of the necessary conditions do not hold
• C. To decide if the requested resources for a process have to be given or not
• D. To recover from a deadlock

For non sharable resources like a printer, mutual exclusion ____________

• A. Must exist
• B. Must not exist
• C. May exist
• D. None of the mentioned