Which of the following factors contributes to the effectiveness of Priority Scheduling?
Equal allocation of CPU time to all jobs.
Dynamic adjustment of priorities based on aging.
Simplicity of implementation.
Static assignment of priorities.
In which state does a process wait for an event to occur?
Ready
Blocked
New
Terminated
What is the primary purpose of virtualization in an operating system?
To reduce the cost of hardware acquisition
To increase hardware performance
To allow multiple operating systems to run concurrently on the same physical hardware
To simplify software development
In a paging system, what is the primary purpose of the page table?
To hold data temporarily during execution
To translate logical addresses to physical addresses
To manage I/O operations
To allocate CPU time
What would most likely happen in a deadlock situation?
All processes will be terminated
System performance will improve
Resources will be allocated more efficiently
Processes will wait indefinitely
Which level of memory hierarchy is usually the fastest and smallest in terms of capacity?
Registers
Main memory
Cache
Secondary storage
Which method aims to manage resources so that deadlocks never occur?
Deadlock prevention
Deadlock avoidance
Deadlock detection
Deadlock recovery
In the context of virtualization, what is the role of a hypervisor?
To manage and allocate resources among virtual machines
To facilitate hardware interaction for applications
To act as a security layer for the host OS
To serve as an operating system for guest machines
Which I/O scheduling algorithm is known for minimizing the average seek time by selecting the request closest to the current head position?
SCAN
C-SCAN
FCFS
SSTF
What is a common advantage of using Thread Pooling in multithreading?
It minimizes the chance of deadlocks occurring.
It simplifies context switching for the operating system.
It can reduce the overhead of creating and destroying threads repeatedly.
It requires more resources to manage threads efficiently.