System Administrator 2026
The problem of priority inversion can be solved by ____________
  • A. Priority inheritance protocol
  • B. Priority inversion protocol
  • C. Both priority inheritance and inversion protocol
  • D. None of the mentioned
Time duration required for scheduling dispatcher to stop one process and start another is known as ____________
  • A. Process latency
  • B. Dispatch latency
  • C. Execution latency
  • D. Interrupt latency
Time required to synchronous switch from the context of one thread to the context of another thread is called?
  • A. Threads fly-back time
  • B. Jitter
  • C. Context switch time
  • D. None of the mentioned
VxWorks is centered around ____________
  • A. Wind microkernel
  • B. Linux kernel
  • C. Unix kernel
  • D. None of the mentioned
The systems which allow only one process execution at a time, are called __________
  • A. Uniprogramming systems
  • B. Uniprocessing systems
  • C. Unitasking systems
  • D. None of the mentioned
A process can be terminated due to __________
  • A. Normal exit
  • B. Fatal error
  • C. Killed by another process
  • D. All of the mentioned
What is the ready state of a process?
  • A. When process is scheduled to run after some execution
  • B. When process is unable to run until some task has been completed
  • C. When process is using the cpu
  • D. None of the mentioned
What is interprocess communication?
  • A. Allows processes to communicate and synchronize their actions when using the same address space
  • B. Allows processes to communicate and synchronize their actions
  • C. Mechanism is used by cooperating processes to exchange data and information. there are two models of ipc: †? shared memory †? message passing
  • D. None of the mentioned
A set of processes is deadlock if __________
  • A. Each process is blocked and will remain so forever
  • B. Each process is terminated
  • C. All processes are trying to kill each other
  • D. None of the mentioned
A process stack does not contain __________
  • A. Function parameters
  • B. Local variables
  • C. Return addresses
  • D. Pid of child process