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GATE CSE Scheduling — practice questions

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Match the scheduling algorithm to its property

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Matching pairs
  1. Left
    FCFS
    Right
    Non-preemptive, simple FIFO
  2. Left
    SJF
    Right
    Picks job with smallest CPU burst
  3. Left
    Round Robin
    Right
    Preemptive with time quantum
  4. Left
    Priority
    Right
    Higher priority runs first
  5. Left
    Multilevel Queue
    Right
    Separate queues per class

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Spot the metric that does NOT measure scheduler quality

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Questions
  1. Items
    1. CPU utilisation
    2. Throughput
    3. Turnaround time
    4. Page size
    Reason
    Page size is a memory-management parameter, not a scheduler metric.
    Odd item
    Page size

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