The kernel is _______ of user threads.

Which of the following is a type of computer virus that threatens an operating system?

What is the effect of thrashing?

A process P1 has a period of 50 and a CPU burst of 25, and process P2 has a period of 80 and a CPU burst of 35. The total CPU utilization is _____

What is the purpose of swap space on a computer's disk?

What is cipher-block chaining?

Consider a machine with a byte addressable main memory of 2²⁰ bytes, block size of 16 bytes and a direct mapped cache having 2¹² cache lines. Let the addresses of two consecutive bytes in main memory be (E201F)₁₆ and (E2020)₁₆. What are the tag and cache line address (in hex) for main memory address (E201F)₁₆?

A processor has 64 registers and uses 16-bit instruction format. It has two types of instructions: I-type and R-type. Each I-type instruction contains an opcode, a register name, and a 4-bit immediate value. Each R-type instruction contains an opcode and two register names. If there are 8 distinct I-type opcodes, then the maximum number of distinct R-type opcodes is

Consider six memory partitions of size 200 KB, 400 KB, 600 KB, 500 KB, 300 KB, and 250 KB, where KB refers to kilobyte. These partitions need to be allotted to four processes of sizes 357 KB, 210 KB, 468 KB and 491 KB in that order. If the best fit algorithm is used, which partitions are NOT allotted to any process?

Consider the following solution to the producer-consumer synchronization problem. The shared buffer size is N. Three semaphores empty, full and mutex are defined with respective initial values of 0, N and 1. Semaphore empty denotes the number of available slots in the buffer, for the consumer to read from. Semaphore full denotes the number of available slots in the buffer, for the producer to write to. The placeholder variables, denoted by P, Q, R and S, in the code below can be assigned either empty or full. The valid semaphore operations are: wait ( ) and signal ( ).

Which one of the following assignment to P, Q, R and S will yield the correct solution?