1. Foundations of IT
Operating Systems — Quiz
Test your understanding of operating systems with 5 practice questions.
Practice Questions
Question 1
Which of the following memory allocation schemes suffers from external fragmentation?
Question 2
In the context of process scheduling, what is the 'turnaround time' of a process?
Question 3
Which of the following is a primary function of the 'dispatcher' in an operating system?
Question 4
Consider a system using the 'Round Robin' scheduling algorithm with a time quantum of $4$ ms. If three processes arrive at time $0$ with burst times $P_1 = 10$ ms, $P_2 = 6$ ms, and $P_3 = 8$ ms, what is the completion time for process $P_2$?
Question 5
Which of the following file allocation methods is most susceptible to external fragmentation?