CSCI 346 Operating Systems--Spring 2011

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Review for Final Exam: Jeopardy!

Questions for the given answers

Synchronicity

100: What is busy waiting?

200: What is the critical section?

300: What is a semaphore?

400: What is deadlock?

500: What is deadlock?

Traffic Jam

100: What are Mutual Exclusion, Hold and Wait, No Preemption and Circular wait?

200: What is a wait-for graph?

300: What is

400: What is "ignore the problem?"

500: What is a safe state? (Safe sequence = P3, P0, P1)

Memory Lapse

100: What is a hole?

200: What is the situation where there is enough memory to satisfy a request, but it is not contiguous?

300: What is 2 to the 5th pages (or 32 pages)?

400: What is page number 2, offset 3?

500: What is 65?

Virtually Possible

100: What is a page fault?

200: What is global replacement?

300: What is thrashing?

400: What is a dirty (or modify) bit?

500: What is 9?

Pot Pourri

100: What is (one of) Deterministic Modeling, Queueing Models, Simulations, Implementation?

200: What is 16 time units?

300: What is starvation?

400: What is deadlock?

500: What is writing one set of instructions over another set that is no longer needed?