Consider the following statements about process state transitions for a system using preemptive scheduling.

I. A running process can move to ready state.
II. A ready process can move to running state.
III. A blocked process can move to running state.
IV. A blocked process can move to ready state.

Which of the above statements are TRUE?

Consider the following set of processes, assumed to have arrived at time 0. Consider the CPU scheduling algorithms Shortest Job First (SJF) and Round Robin (RR). For RR, assume that the processes are scheduled in the order P₁,P₂,P₃,P₄.

If the time quantum for RR is 4 ms, then the absolute value of the difference between the average turnaround times (in ms) of SJF and RR (round off to 2 decimal places) is _____.

Consider the 3 processes, P1, P2 and P3 shown in the table.

Process           Arrival time         Time Units Required
   P1                0                         5
   P2                1                         7
   P3                3                         4

The completion order of the 3 processes under the policies FCFS and RR2 (round robin scheduling with CPU quantum of 2 time units) are

The process state transition diagram in below figure is representative of

Four jobs to be executed on a single processor system arrive at time 0⁺ in the order A, B, C, D. their burst CPU time requirements are 4, 1, 8, 1 time units respectively. The completion time of A under round robin scheduling with time slice of one time unit is

Consider n processes sharing the CPU in a round-robin fashion. Assuming that each process switch takes s seconds, what must be the quantum size q such that the overhead resulting from process switching is minimized but at the same time each process is guaranteed to get its turn at the CPU at least every t seconds?

Consider a set of n tasks with known runtimes r₁, r₂, ..., r_n to be run on a uniprocessor machine. Which of the following processor scheduling algorithms will result in the maximum throughput?

Which of the following scheduling algorithms is non-preemptive?

A uni-processor computer system only has two processes, both of which alternate 10ms CPU bursts with 90ms I/O bursts. Both the processes were created at nearly the same time. The I/O of both processes can proceed in parallel. Which of the following scheduling strategies will result in the least CPU utilization (over a long period of time) for this system?

The process state transition diagram of an operating system is as given below.

Which of the following must be FALSE about the above operating system?

The arrival time, priority, and duration of the CPU and I/O bursts for each of three processes P₁, P₂ and P₃ are given in the table below. Each process has a CPU burst followed by an I/O burst followed by another CPU burst. Assume that each process has its own I/O resource.

The multi-programmed operating system uses preemptive priority scheduling. What are the finish times of the processes P₁, P₂ and P₃ ?

Let a memory have four free blocks of sizes 4k, 8k, 20k, 2k. These blocks are allocated following the best-fit strategy. The allocation requests are stored in a queue as shown below.

The time at which the request for J₇ will be completed will be

Consider n jobs J₁, J₂,......J_n such that job J_i has execution time t_i and a non-negative integer weight w_i. The weighted mean completion time of the jobs is defined to be , where T_i is the completion time of job J_i. Assuming that there is only one processor available, in what order must the jobs be executed in order to minimize the weighted mean completion time of the jobs?

Consider the following set of processes, with the arrival times and the CPU-burst times given in milliseconds.

  Process   Arrival Time    Burst Time
     P1          0              5
     P2          1              3
     P3          2              3
     P4          4              1 

What is the average turnaround time for these processes with the preemptive shortest remaining processing time first (SRPT) algorithm?

Consider a uniprocessor system executing three tasks T₁, T₂ and T₃, each of which is composed of an infinite sequence of jobs (or instances) which arrive periodically at intervals of 3, 7 and 20 milliseconds, respectively. The priority of each task is the inverse of its period and the available tasks are scheduled in order of priority, with the highest priority task scheduled first. Each instance of T₁, T₂ and T₃ requires an execution time of 1, 2 and 4 milliseconds, respectively. Given that all tasks initially arrive at the beginning of the 1^st millisecond and task preemptions are allowed, the first instance of T₃ completes its execution at the end of ______________ milliseconds.

Consider the following processes, with the arrival time and the length of the CPU burst given in milliseconds. The scheduling algorithm used is preemptive shortest remaining-time first.

The average turn around time of these processes is _________ milliseconds.

Consider an arbitrary set of CPU-bound processes with unequal CPU burst lengths submitted at the same time to a computer system. Which one of the following process scheduling algorithms would minimize the average waiting time in the ready queue?

Consider the set of processes with arrival time (in milliseconds), CPU burst time (in milliseconds), and priority (0 is the highest priority) shown below. None of the processes have I/O burst time.

The average waiting time (in milliseconds) of all the processes using preemptive priority scheduling algorithm is __________.

Consider the following CPU processes with arrival times (in milliseconds) and length of CPU bursts (in milliseconds) as given below:

If the pre-emptive shortest remaining time first scheduling algorithm is used to schedule the processes, then the average waiting time across all processes is __________ milliseconds.

Consider the following four processes with arrival times (in milliseconds) and their length of CPU bursts (in milliseconds) as shown below:

These processes are run on a single processor using preemptive Shortest Remaining Time First scheduling algorithm. If the average waiting time of the processes is 1 millisecond, then the value of Z is _____.

The maximum number of processes that can be in Ready state for a computer system with n CPUs is