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Semaphore is a/an ......to solve the critical section problem.
a) hardware for a system  
b) special program for a system
c) integer variable                            
d) none of these

c

How many permissible operations on semaphores?
a) Two  
b) Three
c) Four  
d) Five

a

Explanation: [P (wait or down), V (signal or up)]


If the semaphore value is negative ……
a) Its magnitude of processes  
c) No operation performed
b) It is invalid                      
d) None of these

a

The code that changes the value of the semaphore is……..
a) remainder section code
b) non – critical section code
c) critical section code     
d) none of these

c

In which of the problem several concurrent processes require access to some objects such as file?
a) Producer-consumer problem       
b) reader-writer problems
c) Dining reader problem   
d) none of these

b

In reader writer problem some process extract information from the objects are called………
a) Reader                             
b) Writer
c) both a & b                       
d) none of these

a