Which system call can be used by a parent process to determine the termination of child process?

• A. Wait
• B. Exit
• C. Fork
• D. Get

The address of the next instruction to be executed by the current process is provided by the __________

• A. Cpu registers
• B. Program counter
• C. Process stack
• D. Pipe

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

• A. Cooperating process
• B. Child process
• C. Parent process
• D. Init process

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 ________

• A. Dynamic condition
• B. Race condition
• C. Essential condition
• D. Critical condition

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

• A. Mutual exclusion
• B. Critical exclusion
• C. Synchronous exclusion
• D. Asynchronous exclusion

Which one of the following is a synchronization tool?

• A. Thread
• B. Pipe
• C. Semaphore
• D. Socket

A semaphore is a shared integer variable __________

• A. That can not drop below zero
• B. That can not be more than zero
• C. That can not drop below one
• D. That can not be more than one

Mutual exclusion can be provided by the __________

• A. Mutex locks
• B. Binary semaphores
• C. Both mutex locks and binary semaphores
• D. None of the mentioned

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

• A. Priority inversion
• B. Priority removal
• C. Priority exchange
• D. Priority modification

Process synchronization can be done on __________

• A. Hardware level
• B. Software level
• C. Both hardware and software level
• D. None of the mentioned