6. HL Extension — Resource Management

Scheduling — Quiz

Test your understanding of scheduling with 5 practice questions.

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Practice Questions

Question 1

What is the main purpose of scheduling in an operating system?

Question 2

Which term describes the queue of processes that are ready to run and waiting for CPU time?

Question 3

In pre-emptive scheduling, what can the operating system do?

Question 4

Which scheduling approach gives each process a fixed time slice in turn?

Question 5

What is the name of the time period during which one process uses the CPU before another process is selected?