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📝 Approaches to Multiple Processor Scheduling
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Practice MCQs for Approaches to Multiple Processor Scheduling. Test your knowledge with carefully crafted questions across easy, medium, and hard difficulty levels.
🔄 Last updated: 2026-07-10
📝 Sample Questions
Q1. What is the master server in asymmetric multiprocessing?
🔹 A. A processor that executes only user code
🔹 B. A single processor that handles all scheduling decisions and system activities
🔹 C. A processor that manages I/O only
🔹 D. A backup processor for failover
💡 Difficulty: easy | ✅ Correct: B
Q2. What is the primary advantage of asymmetric multiprocessing?
🔹 A. Better load balancing
🔹 B. Simplicity due to single processor accessing system data
🔹 C. Faster context switching
🔹 D. Higher CPU utilization
💡 Difficulty: medium | ✅ Correct: B
Q3. Why must the scheduler be programmed carefully in SMP systems?
🔹 A. To ensure processors have different priorities
🔹 B. To ensure processors do not schedule the same process
🔹 C. To ensure user code runs faster
🔹 D. To ensure memory is shared equally
💡 Difficulty: hard | ✅ Correct: B
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